WHD West Hawk Development Corp.

West Hawk Development Corp. (TSX VENTURE:WHD)(FRANKFURT:H5N) ("West Hawk" or the
"Company") is pleased to announce that West Hawk has accepted an invitation by
Lu'An Mining Group ("Lu'An") to participate in developing its Xinjiang Coal Mine
and Coal-to-Liquid projects. Lu'An has secured a coal reserve area consisting of
236 km2 with geological reserves of more than 7 billion metric tons in Zhundong
Coalfield in Qitai County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. The proposed
Xinjiang coal Mine and Coal-to-Liquid industrial complex will include an 8 to 10
million metric ton coalmine and a 2 million metric ton CTL plant. West Hawk is
currently negotiating with Lu'an to take an equity position on the Xinjiang Coal
Project.


It has been agreed by the board directors of both West Hawk and Lu'An Group that
using Sasol-Lurgi's proven coal gasification and CTL technology can
significantly speed up the development process of the proposed Xinjiang CTL
project. A delegation consisting of senior executives of both West Hawk and
Lu'An will visit Lurgi GmbH in Germany and Sasol Ltd. in late June 2008 to
discuss the terms and conditions of the technology transfer for Lu'An's Xinjiang
CTL project. In addition a technology transfer to allow West Hawk's potential
coal gasification/CTL projects in Canada with Sasol-Lurgi, and Lu'An will be
included in the discussions.


Tulita Coal Gasification Project

A Letter of Intent was signed between West Hawk and Lu'An to jointly develop the
Tulita coal gasification project in 2007. Based on the 43-101 report prepared by
WEIR International, Inc. in 2007, the Tulita coal property in Northwest
Territories, Canada has approximately 1.5 billion in-place metric tons of
historical coal resources. The coal quality belongs to lignite/sub-bituminous
coal ranks. The NWT coal samples have been tested by Sasol-Lurgi for
gasification. The test results confirm the suitability of the NWT coal for
gasification.


"China is now the world 2nd largest energy producer and consumer. Among the
proven fossil energy reserves in China, coal accounts for 93%, while oil and
natural gas together only account for 7%. However, oil and natural gas accounts
for more than 24% of China's Primary Energy Consumption. To build a stable,
economical, clean and safe energy supply system, to support its sustained
economic and social development, China is targeting coal gasification to replace
oil and natural gas resources with coal in developing its chemical, utility and
transportation industries. Lu'An Group is one of three major players in China to
develop large scale Coal-to-Liquid projects. West Hawk is very pleased to have
this opportunity to participate in developing Lu'An's Xinjiang Coal Mine and CTL
Projects," said Dr. Jinsheng Chen, President and CEO of Asia Operations for West
Hawk.


On behalf of the Board of Directors,

Dr. Wm. Mark Hart, President and Chief Executive Officer

About the Company: West Hawk Development Corp. is focused on providing valuable,
high-demand clean energy products from a variety of sources. Assets include the
Figure Four natural gas property located in the Piceance Basin, Colorado, being
developed under a drilling and development agreement; the Groundhog coal
property located in northwest British Columbia; the Tulita coal property in the
Northwest Territories; and the Ellesmere Island, Nunavut Territory coal
property.


About Lu'An Mining Group: Lu'An is a multi-billion dollar company listed on the
Shenzhen Stock Exchange, China and is a partner of WHE with a focus on gas and
coal gasification. Lu'An's business includes coal mining, coal gasification to
liquids, coal power generation and coal chemicals.


About Lurgi GmbH: Lurgi is a leading international technology company operating
in the field of process engineering and plant contracting. As the market leader
in this field Lurgi fulfills the customers' demands for a cost-efficient
planning and construction of safe and profitable plants with the specified
quality. Reference plants on all continents attest to Lurgi's longstanding
experience and leading market position in gas technologies. Around the world
Lurgi has already built hundreds of plants for the generation of synthesis gas,
hydrogen, carbon monoxide as well as sulfur recovery.


About Sasol Ltd.: Sasol Limited operates as an integrated oil and gas company.
The company operates coal mines; produces synthesis gas through coal
gasification and natural gas reforming, using its proprietary technology to
convert synthesis gas into synthetic fuel components, chemical feedstock, and
pipeline gas; markets refined liquid fuel products, including gasoline, fuel
alcohol, diesel, jet fuel, illuminating paraffin, LPG, fuel oils, motor and
industrial lubricants, and bitumen; and distributes and markets natural gas. The
company primarily operates in South Africa, Europe, North America, South
America, Asia, Australasia, the Far East, the Middle East, and India. Sasol was
founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Rosebank, South Africa.


Cautionary Note: This report contains forward looking statements, particularly
those regarding cash flow, capital expenditures and investment plans. Resource
estimates, unless specially noted, are considered speculative. The Company has
filed a National Instrument 51-101 Report on the Figure Four property. The
Company has filed National Instrument 43-101 Reports for each of the Tulita coal
property in the Northwest Territories, the Nunavut Coal property and the
Groundhog Coal property. Any and all other resource or reserve estimates are
historical in nature, and should not be relied upon. By their nature, forward
looking statements involve risk and uncertainties because they relate to events
and depend on factors that will or may occur in the future. Actual results may
vary depending upon exploration activities, industry production, commodity
demand and pricing, currency exchange rates, and, but not limited to, general
economic factors. Cautionary note to U.S. investors: The U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission specifically prohibits the use of certain terms, such as
"reserves" unless such figures are based upon actual production or formation
tests and can be shown to be economically and legally producible under existing
economic and operating conditions.

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