Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 6, 2008 – Mackenzie I. Watson, President and CEO of Freewest Resources Canada Inc. (FWR:TSX-V) (the “Company”) is pleased to provide an exploration update on the Company’s activities, currently ongoing on its McFaulds properties (the “Property”).

The Property consists of 9 mineral claims situated 3.8 kilometres northeast of the Eagle One and Eagle Two nickel-copper-platinum group element (PGE) occurrences of Noront Resources Ltd. Four (4) of the claims are wholly-owned by Freewest (Freewest claims), while the remaining 5 claims are under option to Spider Resources Inc. and KWG Resources Inc. (Freewest JV claims). Spider and KWG may earn a 50% interest in the 5 claims from Freewest by spending $3,000,000 on exploration over a 4-year period. They may earn a 60% interest by delivering a bankable feasibility study on any mineralization identified and a cumulative 65% interest by arranging project financing for Freewest to place such mineralization into commercial production.