West Mountain Extends Expiry Date for Transaction with Jereh International Investment (Group) Company Limited

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Jan. 16, 2014) - West Mountain Capital Corp. (the "Company" or "West Mountain") (TSX VENTURE:WMT) announces that it has executed an amendment ("Amendment") to the binding heads of agreement ("Heads of Agreement") with Jereh Energy Services Corporation ("Jereh") of Yantai, China that extends the expiry date of the Heads of Agreement to 12:00pm Newfoundland Standard Time on January 30^th, 2014.

About West Mountain
West Mountain is an established Canadian environmental solutions company specializing in the thermal treatment of a variety of hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams. It employs a unique indirectly heated, closed loop technology that allows it to extract even the most hazardous contaminants from soil, industrial sludge, pharmaceutical waste and consumer waste streams converting much of it into reusable oil and synthetic natural gas that it uses to sustain the process. This methodology offers significant opportunity for greenhouse gas reduction over traditional hazardous waste destruction technologies. The Company's management team maintains expertise in hazardous waste management, Brownfield remediation and pharmaceutical waste management with experience spanning North America and 15 countries internationally.

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