Cortina Lease Termination Upheld

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TSX-V: EWK OTCQB: EAATF News Release

October 23, 2025

CORTINA LEASE TERMINATION UPHELD

Earthworks Industries Inc. (the “Company”) reports that U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has denied the Complaint filed by the Company’s wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Cortina Integrated Waste Management Inc., (CIWM), challenging the Order of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s, Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA), to cancel the federally approved lease between CIWM and the Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria, California.

On October 23, 2025, the Court ordered that the plaintiff’s motion (CIWM) for summary judgement be Denied.

It was further ordered that the defendant’s summary judgement motion and defendantintervenor’s summary judgement motion be Granted.

The judgement was entered in accordance with the Court’s Order and filed on October 23, 2025.

For further information, contact:

Earthworks Industries Inc.

David Atkinson President/CEO

604-669-3143

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