LAS VEGAS, NV–(Dec 30, 2013) – Methes Energies International Ltd. (NASDAQ: MEIL), a renewable energy company that offers an array of products and services to biodiesel fuel producers, today announced that on December 26, 2013, it completed a $2.1 million private placement pursuant to Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In the offering, Methes sold 1.1 million units to select institutional and accredited investors, each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one warrant. Each warrant is exercisable to purchase one share of common stock at $4.00 and expires five years from the date of issuance. Net proceeds from the offering were approximately $1.7 million, after deducting offering expenses and placement agent fees.

ViewTrade Securities, acted as lead placement agent and Newbridge Securities Inc. acted as co-placement agents.

Michel G. Laporte, Chairman & CEO of Methes Energies International Ltd., said, “We are pleased to have finalized this private placement with ViewTrade. Our relationship with ViewTrade began when they acted as co-underwriters in our IPO and have been a good team to work with. This financing allows us to expand our production at Sombra by adding some equipment that will help us save money and be more efficient as well as strengthen our balance sheet. We are now in a better position to execute our plan which is to go to maximum production at Sombra by the end of the first quarter.”

About Methes Energies International Ltd.

Methes Energies International Ltd. is a renewable energy company that offers a variety of products and services to biodiesel fuel producers. Methes also offers biodiesel processors that are unique, truly compact, fully automated state-of-the-art and continuous flow that can run on a wide variety of feedstocks. Methes markets and sells biodiesel fuel produced at its showcase production facility in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and at its 13 MGY facility in Sombra, Ontario, to customers in the U.S. and Canada, as well as providing multiple biodiesel fuel solutions to its clientele. Among its services are selling commodities to its network of biodiesel producers, selling their biodiesel production and providing clients with proprietary software to operate and control their processors. Methes also remotely monitors the quality and characteristics of its clients’ production, upgrades and repairs their processors and advises clients on adjusting their processes to use varying feedstock to improve the quality of their biodiesel. For more information, please visit www.methes.com.

About ViewTrade Securities:

ViewTrade Securities was founded in 1998 with the vision of creating a smoother, faster and more efficient straight through trading process (STP). Today we are a full service firm that offers a wide array of brokerage and trading services to meet the needs of our domestic and international clients. ViewTrade’s investment banking professionals have decades of experience in corporate finance and focus on servicing companies that are in the small to mid-cap markets in the US and Global Emerging Markets sectors.

About Newbridge

Newbridge Financial, Inc. (“NFI”) is the parent/holding company for NSC and NFSG. NSC is a FINRA member broker-dealer that engages in full service securities brokerage, investment banking and advisory services with a broad based group of individuals and institutional customer. NFSG is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor offering a broad spectrum of financial services including financial, insurance, retirement, estate and tax planning for our individual and corporate clients. For more information on Newbridge, please visit our public web-site at www.newbridgefinancial.com or www.newbridgesecurities.com

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Contacts:
Methes Energies International Ltd.
Michel G. Laporte
Chairman and CEO
702-932-9964