West Hawk Files NI 51-101 Annual Oil and Gas Reports

  West Hawk Development Corp. (TSX VENTURE: WHD) ("West Hawk" or the "Company") announces that it has filed with the applicable Canadian securities administrators the annual disclosure and reports relating to the Company's oil and gas activities for the year ended April 30, 2009, as required by National Instrument 51-101, Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities. Copies of the filed documents may be obtained on SEDAR under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com or by contacting the Company.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

Gonzalo Torres Macchiavello, President and Chief Executive Officer

About the Company: West Hawk Development Corp. is focused on providing valuable, high-demand 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 and the Groundhog coal property located in northwest British Columbia.

Cautionary Note: This news release or the documents referred to herein may contain forward looking statements. The Company has filed a National Instrument 51-101 Report on its Figure Four property. Resource estimates in this report, unless specially noted, are considered speculative. 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 and in many circumstances are beyond the control of the Company. Actual results may vary depending upon, among other factors, the favorable outcome of the foregoing risks and uncertainties, favorable results from proposed exploration and assessment activities, industry production, commodity demand and pricing, currency exchange rates and 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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Contacts: West Hawk Development Corp. Gonzalo Torres Macchiavello President and Chief Executive Officer 303-524-1424 303-524-1285 (FAX) www.westhawkdevelopment.com