15. Commitments

a) Effective January 1, 2023, new executive consulting agreements were finalized for the services of the CEO and the CFO, for two years and one year, respectively. The CEO's monthly fee was $29,224 (C$40,000) for 2023 and is $36,530 (C$50,000) for 2024 and for the CFO was $9,133 (C$12,500) for 2023. The future minimum commitment under these consulting agreements, is as follows:

For the six-month period ending December 31, 2024

219,180

b) The Company has agreed to lease its office premises from Haute on a month-to-month basis, at the monthly rate of $7,306 (C$10,000). The Company is responsible for all expenses and outlays in connection with its occupancy of the leased premises, including, but not limited to utilities, realty taxes and maintenance.

c) Effective February 3, 2021, upon the successful completion of a Nasdaq listing, the Company has committed a payment of $300,000 to a consulting firm providing advisory and consulting services.

d) On November 5, 2021, the Company committed to the design and construction of its Hamilton, Ontario, Canada facility (the "Hamilton Facility"), including architectural and general contracting fees in the amount of $6,667,316 (C$9,125,809) plus applicable harmonized sales taxes. Refer also to legal proceedings, note 18 and subsequent events, note 19(b).

e) Effective November 1, 2022, the Company acquired the exclusive rights to the use of a well-known athlete's name, endorsement and the like, for the purposes of advertisement, promotion and sale of the Company's products. In return, the Company issued 500,000 common shares of the Company and the individual's company is entitled to the following fees:

• $125,000 sixty days subsequent to the Company's shares listed on the Nasdaq or another senior exchange.

• $125,000 on the one-year anniversary of the first payment above and,

• $125,000 on the one-year anniversary of the second payment above.

There is also an arrangement to issue 250,000 warrants to the company once the Company's shares are listed on the Nasdaq or another major exchange.

f) The Company was assigned the land lease on the purchase of certain assets of Astoria Organic Matters Ltd., and Astoria Organic Matters Canada LP on September 15, 2017. The land lease, which comprises 13.88 acres in Roslin, Ontario, Canada, has a term expiring March 31, 2034. The basic monthly rent on the net lease is $2,192 (C$3,000) and is subject to adjustment based on the consumer price index as published by Statistics Canada ("CPI"). To date, no adjustment for CPI has been charged. The Company is also responsible for any property taxes, maintenance, insurance and utilities. In addition, the Company had the right to extend the lease for five further terms of five years each and one further term of five years less one day. As the Company acquired the business of 1684567, the previous landlord, in 2019, there are no future commitments for this lease. The Company is responsible through a special provision of the site plan agreement with the City of Belleville (the "City"), Ontario, Canada, that it is required to fund road maintenance required by the City through to September 30, 2025 at an annual rate of $7,306 (C$10,000). The future minimum commitment is as follows:

For the six-month period ending December 31, 2024	$	7,306
For the year ending December 31, 2025		7,306
	$	14,612

Up until September 30, 2023, PACE had provided the Company a letter of credit in favor of the MECP in the amount of $202,253 (C$276,831) and, as security, had registered a charge of lease over the Belleville Facility.

The current letter of credit required by the MEC is $465,858 (C$637,637) and now $108,107 (C$146,487), while the Company re-assesses and re-submits it financial assurance to the MECP with the assistance of its environmental consultant. The Company has not yet satisfied this requirement of the MECP.

The letter of credit is a requirement of the MECP and is in connection with the financial assurance provided by the Company for it to be in compliance with the MECPs environmental objectives. The MECP regularly evaluates the Belleville Facility to ensure compliance is adhered to and the letter of credit is subject to change by the MECP. The Company has engaged an environmental consulting firm to re-evaluate the financial assurance with the MECP which is based on the estimated environmental remediation and clean-up costs for its waste processing and composting facility. As a result of inspections carried out by the MECP during the prior years, some of which have resulted in MECP orders having been issued, the Company has accrued estimated and actual costs for certain corrective measures in orders issued by the MECP $2,129,140 (C$2,914,235) (December 31, 2023-$2,153,214; C$2,847,790).