Smartcool Systems' Shares Jump on US Government Administration News

Smartcool Systems Inc.
SSC: TSX-V
Basic Shares 44.3 million
Fully Diluted 50.7 million

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Investors of Smartcool Systems got an early Christmas present on December 23rd with the company’s announcement that it was awarded a U.S. Government Services Administration (GSA) contract. Smartcool shares jumped 20% to 32.5 cents on the release of this news and have held strong since then with good volume - Dec. 23 volume 778,000, Dec. 24 volume 150,000 & Dec. 29 volume (at the time of release of this commentary) 278,000.

The GSA is an independent agency of the United States government established to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies, including the procurement of products. According to the news release, “The contract permits the listing of the Smartcool products on the GSA website which allows any purchasing agent within the United States federal government seeking energy savings devices to purchase the Smartcool products at a preferred price. This will provide the company with a new sales channel within the US federal government sector.”

George Burnes, CEO of Smartcool acknowledged the size of this new market, "This GSA contract will allow Smartcool Systems USA to tap into an economically definitive market, that in 2009 alone saw $16.8 billion allocated to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) programs and initiatives".

What is also impressive is that the GSA manages more than 11 percent of the government's total procurement dollars and $24 billion in federal assets, including 8,600 government-owned or leased buildings and 213,000 vehicles.

To read the full release, please click here.

Technology Points The Way For Pure Nickel in Alaska

Pure Nickel
(TSX: NIC)(OTCBB: PNCKF)
Basic Shares: 67.8 million
Fully Diluted: 75.5

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2009 marked Pure Nickel's most active exploration and technical program at MAN, Alaska with its partner ITOCHU contributing $4.4 million USD to advance the project.

Exploration drilling started in early June and was completed in late September by Cyr Drilling. The company completed seven holes totaling 4,200 metres (13,780 feet). One hole in particular, hole 25, was drilled to 1,066 metres (3,500 feet) with a deeper zone targeted as a large mineralized source was indicated below.

A low-frequency borehole electromagnetic survey that was placed at the bottom of the drill hole pointed to a large anomaly below the hole's final depth. The drill that was onsite was not capable of going deeper. Based on the strong signals that were recorded, this hole is a priority in 2010. A new drill will pick up the work in the new year to reach the anomaly, which is estimated to be several hundred metres below the bottom of the existing hole.

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Shareholders can appreciate that Pure Nickel has used the world’s best available technology along with its strong team of scientists to help identify and prioritize exploration targets for the coming season.

This year's results add key pieces to management’s hypothesis that MAN, Alaska is the source of the pipeline of nickel, copper and platinum group elements that feeds the west-coast and Wrangelia terrain.

See full news release here.......

International Water Guard Notches Two Thousand Mark

International Water-Guard (TSX-V: IWG)
Basic Shares: 39.3 million
Fully Diluted: 46.5 million

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International Water Guard (IWG) reached another milestone by delivering its 2000th aircraft water treatment unit - this time for installation in a wide-body corporate jet built by Dassault Falcon.

“It shows the maturity and growth of our business, and demonstrates that we are here for the long haul,” IWG President & CEO David Fox said of the achievement. Coincidentally, the 2000th unit will be installed in a jet called the Falcon 2000LX.

This sleek corporate bird can carry up to 19 passengers, but normally it is configured to carry eight. It can fly up to 47,000 feet or hit a high-speed cruising rate of roughly 555 miles per hour (890 kph) at 39,000 feet.

IWG’s ultraviolet light disinfection technology will be installed on Dassault Falcon’s factory floor, one of many corporate jets or VIP aircraft that offers IWG’s water treatment technology to customers as either standard or optional equipment. It is the best way for jet manufactures to make sure crew and passengers are able to drink safe, clean water - no matter what exotic airstrip that jet landed on where it had to take on local water.

“We have become the standard for on-board water treatment in the aviation industry,” Mr. Fox added.

To read the full news release, please click here.

NXT Energy Solutions Impressing Clients and Building Case Studies

NXT Energy Solutions Inc.
TSX-V:SFD/OTCBB:NSFDF/Frankfurt EFW
Basic Shares - 30.6 million
Fully diluted - 42.7 million

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NXT Energy Solutions passed a formidable test when it flew over a client’s land holdings in Colombia, South America - that had already had considerable and confidential seismic work done on it – and identified a number of the same oil and gas hot spots from the air that the client identified from its ground work.

Impressed with NXT’s ability to identify the same energy hot spots from the air that it had found in a more expensive and time-consuming land seismic survey, the client asked NXT to conduct air surveys over some of its other Colombian land holdings.

The total value of both surveys, which are now complete, was $986,000 (USD).

Also in today’s release, the company described how it conducted its own Colombian airborne surveys both onshore and offshore to show the results to other prospective clients in order to fast track industry acceptance within the Latin American market.

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IWG's Impressive Year End Results/Strategic Plan

International Water-Guard (TSX-V: IWG)
Basic Shares: 39.3 million
Fully Diluted: 46.5 million

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Investors might look back to International Water Guard’s (IWG) surprisingly good financial results in 2009 as the platform year – the year when IWG flexed a little financial muscle and employed its excellent management to dramatically alter its history.

Consider this:

• In a year when the worldwide aviation industry was still reeling from the worst economic crisis in 79 years, IWG recorded an 18% increase in revenues in F09 to $4.898 million (year ending Sept. 30th).


• It increased its cash position to $1.3 million or 3.3 cents/share where it has been trading between 5.5 and 8 cents as of late. Also, it has no debt.


• Its current market capitalization is approximately $3 million or about two-thirds F09 sales.


• In F2009, net earnings were $312 thousand, compared to a net loss of $97 thousand in F2008.


• Consider also that management under President and CEO, David Fox, managed to steer the corporate ship through some of the roughest economic waters we’ve seen and post six (6) consecutive quarters of profits.
  
  

In context of its undervalued nature, the Board of Directors has made an important strategic decision to retain Haywood Securities to offer its expertise in helping IWG grow through mergers and acquisitions. The message this sends is very straight forward and clearly signals that those in control of IWG will do what needs to be done to positively impact shareholder value!

There are some interesting prospects out there in the hard-hit aviation sector and if IWG plays its corporate hand right, it could follow the path of others in this sector which have done extremely well.

• Take Zodiac S.A. for example. That’s right, the France-based manufacturer of inflatable boats. But marine sales are less than 50% of Zodiac’s business. The remainder are in the aviation sector, through inflatable emergency chutes, aircraft toilets, aircraft seats, aviation systems, etc. This now 130-year-old company took a strategic decision back in the early ‘70s to grow dramatically through acquisitions and now boasts annual revenues in the $1 billion range and employees around the world of roughly 20,000.
  

The fact is the IWG group is serious.

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Carfinco Distributes Remaining 2009 Cash To Unit Holders

Carfinco Income FundTSX: CFN.UN

Units issued basic 23.3 million
Units issued fully diluted 23.4 million

Current monthly distribution: $0.015

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Christmas came early for Carfinco Income Fund unit holders as the company just announced that not only is it granting a December cash distribution of $0.015 per unit but also a special distribution of $0.105 in cash and a unit distribution valued at $0.0641. The total value of December distributions is $0.1841 bringing total yearly distributions to $0.2441 for 2009, a spectacular achievement considering the company only reinstated distributions this past August.

Current annualized yield is approximately 7% but with special distributions added the yield becomes about 14%.

The market obviously appreciated the news as unit prices have jumped 9.32% within an hour of market opening this morning.
Under the deed of Trust that governs the fund, the company must distribute all of its taxable income by year end and unit holders on record as of December 18th will be entitled to the distributions.

See full news release here...........

Anglo Swiss New Director - “Target some very good potential ore deposits and drill the hell out of them”

Anglo Swiss Resources Inc.
(TSX-V: ASW) (OTCBB: ASWRF) (BERLIN: AMO)
Basic Shares 130.2 million
Fully Diluted 150 million

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The title to this commentary was Tom Obradovich’s answer when asked how he would like the see the exploration program unfold for Anglo Swiss over the next 12 months.

In a 10 minute spot now available on You Tube, Grant Howard, President of The Howard Group interviewed Tom Obradovich, mining veteran and new board member to Anglo Swiss Resources. The focus of the interview was on why Mr. Obradovich was attracted to Anglo Swiss Resources. The response was very clear; he sees the potential in the company’s Nelson Mining Camp and believes that the Anglo Swiss management team is up for the job.

Highlighted points from Mr. Obradovich during the interview (paraphrased):
- Have had previous successes in co-founding Young – Davidson Mines, Aurelian Resources and Canadian Royalties.
- Essentially my style of exploration has been to put an entire camp together. In ASW I see potential in building a mining camp through the consolidation of neighboring mines with lots of opportunity.
- The decision to rebrand the Kenville Mine to the Nelson Mining Camp was to encompass all the past and future productive areas of the region.
- It would get the attention of majors to get to the threshold to be a target for acquisition. You have to have a sizable world class deposit to be a target. I’ve have had the most success with companies’ with deposits of 3 – 5 million ounces of gold or gold equivalent.
- Len Danard, President of ASW has an innate ability to put together deals.
- We have to put together all the historical and current data with computer modeling to target a major discovery.
- Just flew an airborne geophysical survey - Aeromag and Electromagnetic.
- Tom has a gentlemen he calls the “gold guru” who gives advice on gold prices and he believes gold is going to remain these prices if not higher.

To hear the full interview, please click the player below.

Carfinco Top Pick on BNN Market Call

Carfinco Income Fund
TSX: CFN.UN
Units issued basic 23.3 million

Units issued fully diluted 23.4 million
Current monthly distribution: $0.015
Current annualized yield - 9%

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Last night, Jason Donville, president and CEO of Donville Kent Asset Management chose Carfinco Income Trust as his number one pick on Market Call on the Business News Network. Interestingly, he ranked it ahead of Royal bank.

That combined with the Globe and Mail’s summary of BNN’s Market Call, which is available in the Report on Business section today is part of the reason Carfinco units opened today up 10% at $2.26 on strong volume.

Here is what the Globe and Mail said to summarize Mr. Donville’s interview.

“Carfinco is a sub-prime vehicle lender that is based in Edmonton. The company’s earnings tend to be quite cyclical but it is extremely profitable during the expansion phase of the economic cycle with return on equity in the 40 to 50-per-cent range being the norm. The company also boasts a strong management team in Troy and Tracy Graf.

Other highlights include…

- Very good management
- Expect a huge bounce back in profitability
- I see this stock going to $3 in 12 months
- 15% distribution moving forward
- I’m confident of a $0.30 dividend in 2011. On a $2 stock. That’s a 15% yield.

About Jason Donville, President & CEO, Donville Kent Asset Management

Jason has had an illustrious career as an award-winning analyst in both Asia and Canada. Prior to founding DKAM, Mr. Donville was consistently ranked as one of the top financial services analysts in the country. In 2004 and 2005, Mr. Donville was ranked in all three financial services research categories (banks, insurance and diversified financial services) in the annual Brendan Woods surveys. Mr. Donville was also recognized as the Top Stock Picker in Diversified Financial Services in the 2004 and 2005 National Post/Starmine surveys, and ranked number 3 for forecast accuracy in 2004 in the same survey.

To view the BNN interview, please click here

NXT Annual Meeting; A Who's Who, of Who Wasn’t There

NXT Energy Solutions Inc.
TSX-V:SFD/OTCBB:NSFDF/Frankfurt EFW
Basic Shares - 30.6 million
Fully diluted - 42.7 million


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The theme of NXT’s annual meeting on December 1st focused on the success of 2009 and it was quite apparent based on the number of top executives who weren’t there.
In fact, it was left up to CFO, Ken Rogers, to lead the charge because the remaining senior executives were all down in Colombia to oversee another major contract there.

Of course, investors would much rather have company executives tied up on new business than discuss the past year at an annual meeting.

Nevertheless, Mr. Rogers delivered two critically important messages to investors about the company’s 2009 performance:

1) The company refocused its business plan in 2009
2) It was able to achieve the various objectives set out at the beginning of the year

One of the key objectives Mr. Rogers talked about was that of beginning to remove the “black box stigma,” or the mystery surrounding how NXT’s technology actually does find oil and gas. One of the first critical steps in removing that shroud was to hire Azer Mustaqeen, P. Geoph, early in 2009. Mr. Mustaqeen immediately began clarifying how NXT’s Stress Field Detection (SFD) technology identifies underground structures that likely hold oil and gas deposits. During the past year, he has also built a number of case studies to explain the technology’s previous successes.

The presentation at the Calgary Petroleum Club in Calgary, Alberta also laid out the company’s focus on the Colombian market, which is central to its new direction. In 2009, the company has made great strides in building relationships in that country and in so doing has opened up other opportunities in other countries in the region such as Brazil, Peru and more.

To view the full presentation in pdf format, please click here

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Announcement Bumps Stock 25% in Early Trading

Smartcool Systems Inc.
SSC: TSX-V
Basic Shares 44.3 million
Fully Diluted 50.7 million
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Investors obviously liked what they read in Smartcool System's December 1st news release regarding an agreement with the largest chiller service in one of the hottest regions of the world - the Middle East.

Within hours of announcing a deal with U.S. Chiller Services, Smartcool's stock jumped to a high of $0.25 cents or a 25% gain.

The agreement calls for the U.S.-based, worldwide company to be the exclusive distributor of Smartcool's smaller industrial energy-saving technology and marketer of Smartcool's largest industrial energy-saving technology in the Middle East.

U.S. Chiller Services operates in the United Arab Emirates (U. A. E.) and Bahrain. The company also has offices in the hot ends of the United States - California and Florida.

Dan Mizesko, President of U.S. Chiller said his company tested Smartcool's technology during 42 days in Dubai at times when the mid-day temperature can reach 5o degrees centigrade.

"Not only did (Smartcool's technology) save substantial kWh input power to the chiller, it was also able to slightly improve the chiller's kWper ton efficiency," Mr. Mizesko added in the news release.

To view the entire news release, please click here.

AeroMechanical Partner GuestLogix Interviewed

AeroMechanical Services Ltd. (TSX:V-AMA)
Basic Shares: 103.1 million
Fully Diluted: 117.6 million

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Last October, AeroMechanical signed an agreement with GuestLogix Inc. to enable that Toronto-based company to conduct real-time credit card checks aboard aircraft before a passenger purchase was approved.

Tom Douramakos, the Chief Executive Officer of Guestlogix was interviewed November 3oth in an online publication called Res Free Thinking, which will give readers a thorough view of everything GuestLogix does and why the agreement with AeroMechanical is so important.

Before the partnership with AeroMechanical, GuestLogix could only check a passenger's credit card worthiness at some point after the aircraft landed - in some cases, days after the passenger disembarked with his/her purchase in hand.

But using AeroMechanical's blue box, GuestLogix could do instant credit checks and with the ability to now conduct pre-approved purchases, the airlines could offer higher end goods with bigger profit margins.

GuestLogix (TSX:V-GXI) is the biggest provider of credit card transaction technology to the airline industry.

The question and answer format in the Res Free Thinking publication contained this one section dedicated to the agreement with AeroMechanical:

RES: Recently, you announced a partnership with AeroMechanical Services (AMA.V). What do you want to get out of that relationship?

TD: We are really concentrating on Asia right now, and we want to get to more real-time transactions. AeroMechanical Services provides real-time satellite up links to airlines, and we want to be able to use those up links to do real-time transactions. Also AeroMechanical Services has Asian carrier clients that we can provide our services to.

To read the complete interview on Res Free Thinking, please click here.