Aveda Transportation and Energy Services Announces Grant of Incentive Stock Options

Aveda Transportation and Energy Services Inc. ("Aveda" or the "Company") (TSX
VENTURE:AVE), a leading provider of oilfield hauling services and equipment
rentals to the energy industry, announces that pursuant to the terms and
conditions of its incentive stock option plan, it has granted, in the aggregate,
25,000 incentive stock options (the "Options") to purchase Common Shares of
Aveda to certain officers and employees of the Company. 


The Options are exercisable for a five year period at a price of $2.60 per
share. The Options will vest over three years as one third on each anniversary
date of the grant.


About Aveda Transportation and Energy Services

Aveda provides specialized transportation of products, materials, supplies and
equipment required for the exploration, development and production of petroleum
resources in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and in the United States of
America principally in and around the states of Texas and Pennsylvania.
Transportation services include both the equipment necessary to move the load as
well as a trained, professional driver capable of securing, moving and
manipulating the load at its origin and destination. Aveda's rental operations
include the rental of tanks, mats, pickers, light towers and other equipment
necessary for oilfield operations.


Aveda was incorporated in 1994 as a private company to serve the oil and gas
industry. In the spring of 2006 the Company went public on the TSX Venture
Exchange. Aveda has major operations in Calgary, AB, Slave Lake, AB, Leduc, AB,
Sylvan Lake, AB Mineral Wells, TX, Pleasanton, TX, Midland, TX, Buckhannon, WV
and Williamsport, PA. Aveda is publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under
the symbol AVE. For more information on Aveda please visit www.avedaenergy.com.


Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term
is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility
for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Aveda Transportation and Energy Services Inc.
Bharat Mahajan, CA
Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer
[phone]
[e-mail]
www.avedaenergy.com