Biopower Operations begins public trading

Apr. 9, 2012, Fort Lauderdale, FL – BioPower Operations Corporation has announced that the Company received notice from The Depository
Trust Company "DTC" of the eligibility effective immediately of its
common shares for electronic trading under the OTCQB trading symbol
"BOPO."

BioPower Operations Corporation is a development stage company
focused on growing biomass coupled with the production and sale of
biomass products and byproducts. The senior management team has
analyzed numerous biomass technologies and various market niche
opportunities resulting in short term plans to produce and sell
biomass oils coupled with the execution of two long-term licenses to
grow unique trees and bamboo that can be converted into oils,
biofuels, animal feed or electricity.

Robert Kohn, Chairman and CEO, stated, "We are elated to enter the
public marketplace. Our S-1 registration statement was declared
effective by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on
August 1, 2011. Our experienced team is in place and we have been
working diligently on the initiatives outlined in our business plan.
We plan to communicate frequently and consistently with the
investment community to achieve complete transparency and disclosure
as we build our business."

BioPower has an experienced management team, led by Robert Kohn,
Chairman, CEO, CFO and Co-Founder. Previously, Mr. Kohn was
co-founder of three start-up public companies with equity and debt
raised exceeding $400 million. He was President of a subsidiary of
NYSE, Exelon-"EXC" (
www.exeloncorp.com ) ranked as one of the largest
electric utilities in the U.S., and President and founder of Entrade
energy trading. Early in his career, Robert co-founded a waste to
energy start-up, ORFA Corp. of America, which traded on National
Market NMS NASDAQ. He was also Co-Founder and CEO of AssetTrade
(
www.Go-Dove.com ), a world leader in its market and a public company
on the London Exchange.

Dale Shepherd, President & COO of BioPower, has served in numerous
executive roles, as COO, CFO and Finance Director including eighteen
years in the General Electric Company primarily in the Plastics and
the Gas Turbine business. Mr. Shepherd also served six years with
Kawasaki Steel Corporation building their worldwide plastics
interests as the VP of Business Development and was CFO of Rogers
Corporation, an AMEX company (now trading on the NYSE). Additionally,
Mr. Shepherd was VP Finance of North American Logistics with $500
Million in revenue. Mr. Shepherd acted as interim CFO and Managing
Director for a business unit of Vertex Data Sciences Ltd (UK) a BPO
company with $800 million in revenue. Dale has a strong background in
new business development and M&A work having participated, completed
and led acquisitions from $50,000 to $2.3 billion.

About BioPower Operations Corporation

BioPower Operations Corporation is a development stage company
focused on growing biomass coupled with the production and sale of
biomass products and byproducts. Biomass is a broad term that
encompasses all plant and animal matter that can be used either as a
source of energy or for its chemical components when converted into
bio oils, biofuels, green electricity, animal feed and other valuable
products. Visit their website at: www.biopowercorp.com.