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Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation Signs Consulting Agreement with TSS Consultants

COLUSA, Calif 8/4/2006 7:00 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)

Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation (Pink Sheets: CBGY), the Colusa County, California-based biomass-to-ethanol company, announced today that they have engaged TSS Consultants (TSS) of Rancho Cordova, California to provide technical and business assistance for a production plant in the Sacramento Valley to convert rice straw to chemical products and ethanol.

Commenting on this strategic consultancy, Tom Bowers, CEO of CBGY, stated, "We are extremely pleased to have the services of TSS Consulting, namely Dennis Schuetzle, Ph.D., available for the support of this planning effort. Dr. Schuetzle is a recognized authority, worldwide, on the production of fuels and energy from waste biomass, with international expertise in biomass-to-ethanol production. Dr. Schuetzle and his associates at TSS have had great success with assisting numerous private and government organizations in the assessment and development of new technologies and the design of production plants for converting biomass to energy and fuels. We are confident that they will allow us to make tremendous strides toward attaining our goal of being the dominant US company in the field of converting rice straw (waste) into ethanol and other high-value products via our patented process."

Loyd Forrest, President of TSS Consultants added, "We are very excited to have the opportunity to work with Mr. Bowers and his staff at Colusa Biomass. They have worked diligently toward helping provide a solution for the State of California with respect to converting the waste from rice production to bona fide commodities (ethanol, high grade silica and lignin) while improving the environment."

James Lucas, Chief Science Officer at Colusa Biomass commented, "That the efficient and economical production of valuable commodities from rice straw will help solve the air and solid waste issues associated with the disposal of over a million tons per year of rice straw, while providing farmers with an additional source of income and the State with an important, renewable alternative fuel. In addition to helping with environmental issues and providing alternative choices for petroleum based fuel, CBGY's planned facility will create numerous jobs in Colusa County, which currently has an unemployment rate of roughly 28%."

Tom Bowers added, "I think that our shareholders are going to be quite pleased when they see the benefits that a growth oriented company like ours will receive from working with well established, respected group like TSS Consultants -- an organization that has had major successes on a domestic, as well as an international level."

About CBGY

Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation has a US Patent to make ethanol from waste biomass (such as what's left over after the rice, wheat and corn is harvested). CBGY was founded in 2001 and incorporated in Nevada. CBGY owns US Patent #5,735,916 which covers the process for converting biomass to fuel ethanol. CBGY's preferred biomass is waste rice straw produced in the Sacramento Valley. The Sacramento Valley runs from Sacramento north to Mount Shasta and lies between the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada mountains and produces about 13% of America's rice production. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri also produce large quantities of rice.

The annual California planting for rice production is approximately 600,000 acres. Each acre of rice produces about 2 1/4 tons of rice straw. Of the 1.35 million tons of California rice straw produced approximately 3% to 4% is used for commercial applications. The balance is either reintroduced to the soil or the fields flooded a second time at extra expense to the farmer, to say nothing of the use of water that otherwise could be available to a water starved California. Legislation is in place that prohibits the farmer from burning the waste rice straw as was done in the past. It is important to note that CBGY can process rice hulls (in volume about 1/4 that of rice straw) as well as any other form or biomass (i.e., wood chips, forest slash, orchard trimmings, grasses and hays) with no refinery modification. Their website is www.colusabiomass.com

About TSS Consultants

Started in 1986 and located near Sacramento, California, TSS is a renewable energy, natural resource management, and financial consulting firm, providing evaluations of new and proposed industrial energy projects, new energy technologies, biomass waste disposal alternatives and life cycle analyses. TSS offers project development teams for developer feasibility assessments, project development or purchases, financing, construction and startup, and financial risk assessments. Active nationally and internationally, TSS also provides research, analysis and assistance in commercializing new energy technologies for public and private clients with a focus on biomass, bio-fuels, geothermal, and solar technologies. TSS principals have extensive public and private sector experience in energy, forest management, environmental assessments, technology evaluations, managing public and private forests, wildfire program management and evaluations, evaluating disaster emergency preparedness and response management systems, wild-land fuel management and regulation agency experience. Their website is www.tssconsultants.com.

About Dr. Dennis Schuetzle

Dr. Dennis Schuetzle is the Vice President for Research and Technology with TSS Consultants and the President of REI International -- The Renewable Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience in managing and implementing environmental science and engineering programs in collaboration with organizations in North America, Asia, Europe, South America, Russia and South Africa. At TSS, he provides environmental and energy services to industry, government and academic organizations for the:

-- Evaluation of Renewable Biomass to Energy and Fuels Technologies

-- Economic, Energy, Environmental and Effectiveness (E4) Life-Cycle Assessments

-- Design of Biomass to Energy and/or Fuels Production Plants

-- Characterization of Trace Environmental Contaminants in Air, Water and Solid Waste

-- Health Effects and Risk Assessment Studies

-- Stationary Source and Vehicle Emissions Control Technologies

-- Establishment of REI International -- The Renewable Energy Institute and its nine centers located in North America, Asia, South America and Europe.

Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" relating to Colusa Biomass Energy, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the "Company") within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements regarding future events, our financial performance and operating results, our business strategy and our financing plans are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statement by terminology, such as "may", "will", "would", "should", "could", "expect", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict", "potential" or "continue", the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the statements. In evaluating these statements, you should specifically consider various factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements.

Contacts

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