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Windfall Geotek Inc. Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2022

Jun 17, 2022

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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WINDFALL GEOTEK INC.

NOTICE OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of Windfall Geotek Inc. (the “ Company ”) will be held solely by means of remote communication, rather than in person, on May 5, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), for the following purposes:

(1) to approve the relocation of the Company’s registered office to Ontario; and

(2) to transact such other business that may properly come before the meeting.

Only shareholders of record at the close of business on April 4, 2021, (the “ Record Date ”) are entitled to receive notice of the Meeting, to act at the Meeting and express their voting rights. No person who becomes a shareholder after the Record Date will be entitled to vote or act at the Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

Due to the public health impact of the coronavirus pandemic, also known as COVID-19, and to mitigate risks to the health and safety of our community, shareholders, employees and other stakeholders, the Corporation is conducting a virtual meeting of the Shareholders of the Corporation. Shareholders will not be able to attend the Meeting in person. Instead, Registered Shareholders (as defined in the accompanying Circular under the heading “Appointment of Proxyholder and Right of Revocation of Proxies” and duly appointed proxyholders can virtually attend, participate, vote or submit questions at the virtual Meeting online by registering at the following link:

https://bit.ly/3NOsutR

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with access instructions.

To ensure a smooth process, the Corporation is asking registered participants to log in by 10:45 a.m. (Eastern Time) on May 5, 2022.

Just as they would be at an in-person meeting, Registered Shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders will be able to attend the virtual Meeting, participate, submit questions online and vote virtually, all in real time, provided they are connected to the internet and comply with all of the requirements set out in the accompanying Circular. Registered Shareholders who are unable to attend the virtual Meeting are requested to complete, sign and date the accompanying form of proxy in accordance with the instructions provided therein and in the Circular and return it in accordance with the instructions and timelines set forth in the Circular. Non-registered (or beneficial) shareholders who have not duly appointed themselves as proxyholder will be able to attend the virtual Meeting as “guests”, but will not be able to participate, submit questions or vote at the virtual Meeting.

In order that the greatest number possible of shares may be represented and voted at the Annual Meeting, shareholders who are unable to attend the meeting are requested to COMPLETE, DATE, SIGN AND RETURN the enclosed form of PROXY to Computershare Trust Company of Canada in the enclosed envelope provided for that purpose before 11:00 a.m. on May 3, 2022. Please refer to the annexed management proxy circular for additional particulars.

DATED at Montréal, Québec

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April 4, 2022 (signed) Simran Kamboj Simran Kamboj President

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WINDFALL GEOTEK INC.

(the “ Corporation ”)

INFORMATION CIRCULAR

As at April 4, 2022

SOLICITATION OF PROXIES

The management of the Corporation solicits proxies to be used at the Annual General and Special Meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) to be held at the time and place and for the purposes set forth in the attached notice of meeting and at any adjournment thereof. The cost of this solicitation will be borne by the Corporation. Accordingly, the management of the Corporation has drafted this information circular (the “Information Circular”) that it is sending to all the security holders entitled to receive a notice of meeting.

If you cannot attend the Meeting in person, complete and return the enclosed form of proxy following the instructions therein.

HOW TO ATTEND, PARTICIPATE AND VOTE AT THE VIRTUAL MEETING

While it is the Corporation's intention to resume holding in-person meetings under normal circumstances, the Meeting will be a completely virtual meeting of Shareholders via webcast in order to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and to mitigate risks to the health and safety of our community, Shareholders, employees and other stakeholders. Shareholders will not be able to attend the Meeting in person. Instead, Registered Shareholders (as defined herein) and duly appointed proxyholders will be able to virtually attend, participate and vote at the virtual Meeting on the date and time of the Meeting (being May 5, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time)) by clicking registering at the following link:

https://bit.ly/3NOsutR

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with access instructions. Kindly note that you must be registered by May 3, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) otherwise no link to access the Meeting will be provided.

QUORUM FOR THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS

The Corporation’s By-Laws provide that the quorum at a meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation shall be constituted by the attendance of two or more shareholders, present in person or represented by proxy, holding at least 10% of the votes attached to outstanding voting shares.

RIGHT OF REVOCATION OF PROXIES AND APPOINTMENT OF PROXYHOLDER

The persons named in the enclosed form of proxy are directors and officers of the Corporation. A shareholder has the right to appoint as his or her proxy a person, who need not be a shareholder, other than those whose names are printed on the accompanying form of proxy. A shareholder who wishes to appoint some other person to represent him or her at the Meeting may do so either by inserting such other person’s name in the blank space provided in the form of proxy and signing the form of proxy or by completing and signing another proper form of proxy.

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A shareholder may revoke a proxy at any time by sending an instrument in writing executed by him or, if the shareholder is a corporation, under its corporate seal or by an officer or attorney thereof duly authorized in writing, at the same address where the form of proxy was sent and within the delays mentioned therein, or two business days preceding the date the Meeting resumes if it is adjourned, or remit to the chairman of such Meeting on the day of the Meeting or any adjournment thereof, if applicable.

EXERCISE OF DISCRETION BY PROXIES

The management undertakes to respect the holder's instructions.

In the absence of any indication by the mandatory or in the event the right to vote ought not to be exercised with regard to a question, the agent will exercise the right to vote IN FAVOUR of each question defined on the form of proxy, in the notice of meeting or in the Information Circular.

Unless otherwise specified herein, all resolutions will be adopted by a simple majority of the votes represented at the Meeting.

Management does not know and cannot foresee at the present time any amendments or new points to be brought before the Meeting. If such amendments or new points were to be brought before the Meeting, the persons named in the enclosed form of proxy will vote on such matters in the way they consider advisable.

ADVICE TO NON-REGISTERED SHAREHOLDERS

The information set forth in this section should be reviewed carefully by the non-registered shareholders. Shareholders who do not hold their shares in their own name (the “Beneficial Shareholders”) should note that only proxies deposited by shareholders whose names appear on the records maintained by the Corporation’s registrar and transfer agent as registered holders of shares will be recognized and acted upon at the Meeting . If shares are listed in an account statement provided to a shareholder by a broker, those shares will, in all likelihood, not be registered in the shareholder’s name. Such shares will more likely be registered under the name of the shareholder’s broker or an agent of that broker. In Canada, the vast majority of such shares are registered under the name of CDS & Co. (the registration name for CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc., which acts as nominee for many Canadian brokerage firms). Shares held by brokers (or their agents or nominees) on behalf of a broker’s client can only be voted at the direction of the Beneficial Shareholder. Without specific instructions, brokers and their agents and nominees are prohibited from voting shares for the broker’s clients. Therefore, each Beneficial Shareholder should ensure that voting instructions are communicated to the appropriate person well in advance of the Meeting .

National Instrument 54-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators requires brokers and other intermediaries to seek voting instructions from Beneficial Shareholders in advance of shareholders’ meetings. The various brokers and other intermediaries have their own mailing procedures and provide their own return instructions to clients, which should be carefully followed by Beneficial Shareholders in order to ensure that their shares are voted at the Meeting. The form of proxy supplied to a Beneficial Shareholder by its broker (or the agent of the broker) is substantially similar to the form of proxy provided directly to registered shareholders by the Corporation. However, its purpose is limited to instructing the registered shareholder ( i.e ., the broker or agent of the broker) how to vote on behalf of the Beneficial Shareholder.

In Canada, the vast majority of brokers now delegate responsibility of obtaining instructions from clients to Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (“ BFSI ”). BFSI typically prepares a machine-readable voting

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instruction form, mails those forms to Beneficial Shareholders and asks Beneficial Shareholders to return the forms to BFSI, or otherwise communicate voting instructions to BFSI (by way of the Internet or telephone, for example). BFSI then tabulates the results of all instructions received and provides appropriate instructions respecting the voting of shares to be represented at the Meeting. A Beneficial Shareholder who receives a BFSI voting instruction form cannot use that form to vote shares directly at the Meeting. The voting instruction forms must be returned to BFSI (or instructions respecting the voting of shares must otherwise be communicated to BFSI) well in advance of the Meeting in order to have the shares voted. If you have any questions respecting the voting of shares held through a broker or other intermediary, please contact your broker or other intermediary of assistance.

Although a Beneficial Shareholder may not be recognized directly at the Meeting for the purposes of voting shares registered in the name of his or her broker (or his or her broker’s agent), a Beneficial Shareholder may attend the Meeting as proxyholder for the registered shareholder and vote the shares as proxyholder for the registered shareholder by entering his or her own name in the blank space on the proxy form provided to him or her by his or her broker (or his or her broker’s agent) and return it to that broker (or that broker’s agent) in accordance with the broker’s instructions (or the agent’s instructions).

All references to shareholders in this Information Circular, the enclosed form of proxy and the notice of meeting are to the registered shareholders unless specifically stated otherwise.

INTEREST OF CERTAIN PERSONS IN MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON

The Corporation is not aware of any material interest, direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, of any of the following persons in any matter to be acted upon at the Meeting:

  • (a) each person who has been a director or executive officer of the Corporation at any time since the beginning of the Corporation’s last financial year;

  • (b) each proposed nominee for election as a director of the Corporation; and

  • (c) each associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing.

VOTING SECURITIES AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS THEREOF

The authorized capital stock of the Corporation consists of an unlimited number of common shares without par value. Each common share entitles its holder to one vote. On April 4, 2022, there were 132,695,628 common shares of the Corporation issued and outstanding.

The Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “ Board ”) fixed the close of business on April 4, 2022 as the record date (the “ Record Date ”) for determining which shareholders shall be entitled to receive notice of the Meeting and to vote in person or by proxy at the Meeting or any adjournment thereof. Pursuant to the Canada Business Corporations Act , the Corporation is required to prepare, no later than ten (10) days after the Record Date, an alphabetical list of the shareholders entitled to vote as of the record date that shows the number of shares held by each shareholder. A shareholder whose name appears on the list referred to above is entitled to vote the shares shown opposite his or her name at the Meeting. The list of shareholders is available for inspection during usual business hours at the management office of the Corporation.

As at the date hereof, to the knowledge of management of the Corporation, there is no one holding 10% or more of the issued shares of the Corporation.

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MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE MEETING

AMENDMENT TO EXERCISE PRICE OF STOCK OPTIONS HELD BY INSIDERS

At the Meeting, the Shareholders will be asked to consider and if deemed advisable, pass a special resolution in the form annexed as Schedule A to this Management Proxy Circular, approving the amendments to the articles of the Corporation to change the province in which its registered office is situated from the Province of Québec to the Province of Ontario (the “ Registered Office Relocation ”). The Board of Directors believes that it is in the best interest of the Corporation to effect the Registered Office Relocation so as to locate the registered office of the Corporation in the province in which its management resides and in which its principal place of business is located (the “ Registered Office Special Resolution ”).

In accordance with the with the rules of the Canada Business Corporations Act and the TSX Venture Exchange, in order to be adopted, the resolution must be approved by a special majority (66 2�3%) of the votes cast by the shareholders of the Corporation, either present in person or represented by proxy at the Meeting.

The persons named as proxies in the proxy form intend to cast the votes represented by proxy at the Meeting FOR the Registered Office Relocation, the whole as set forth in the resolution annexed as Schedule A to this Management Proxy Circular unless shareholders direct otherwise.

If the resolution is not passed at the Meeting, the registered office of the Corporation will continue to be located in the Province of Québec.

OTHER MATTERS

Management knows of no other matter to become before the Meeting. However, if any other matters which are known to the management should properly come before the Meeting, the accompanying form of proxy confers discretionary authority upon the persons’ name therein to vote on such matters in accordance with their best judgement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information are also available by contacting the Corporation at its administrative office:

7005 Taschereau Blvd., Suite #265 Brossard (Quebec) J4Z 1A7 Telephone: 514-994-5843 Email: [email protected]

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APPROVAL OF INFORMATION CIRCULAR

The contents and the sending of the Information Circular have been approved by the Directors of the Corporation.

April 4, 2022

By order of the Board of Directors

(signed) Simran Kamboj Simran Kamboj President

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SCHEDULE A

HEAD OFFICE RELOCATION SPECIAL RESOLUTION

IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED AS A SPECIAL RESOLUTION THAT:

  1. the Corporation be, and it hereby is, authorized and empowered to amend its articles to provide that the province of the registered office of the Corporation be changed from the Province of Québec to the Province of Ontario; and

  2. any director or officer of the Corporation be and is hereby authorized to do such things and to sign, execute and deliver all instruments and documents that such director and officer may, in his or her discretion, determine to be necessary or desirable in order to give full effect to the intent and purpose of this resolution.

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