Aveda Transportation and Energy Services Inc. 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,
121,138 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 $2.80 per
share. One third of the Options will vest in the second quarter of 2013, one
third of the Options will vest on the first anniversary of the first vesting
date, and one third of the Options will vest on the second anniversary of the
first vesting date.