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Securities Purchase Agreement

 EXHIBIT 10.1 
  
 SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT 
  

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of December 28, 2005 among North American Technologies Group,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “Purchaser” and collectively the
“Purchasers”). 
  
 WHEREAS, subject to the terms
and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally
and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this Agreement. 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows: 
  
 ARTICLE I. 
 DEFINITIONS 
  
 1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) capitalized terms that are
not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Debentures (as defined herein), and (b) the following terms have the meanings indicated in this Section 1.1: 
  
 “Action” shall have the meaning ascribed to
such term in Section 3.1(j). 
  
 “Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 144
under the Securities Act. With respect to a Purchaser, any investment fund or managed account that is managed on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as such Purchaser will be deemed to be an Affiliate of such Purchaser. 

 
 “Closing” means the closing of the
purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1. 
  
 “Closing Date” means the Trading Day when all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all deliveries set forth in § 2.2 have been
made. 
  
 “Commission” means the
Securities and Exchange Commission. 
  
 “Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter have been reclassified or changed into. 

 “Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or its
Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock. 
  
 “Conversion Price” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Debentures. 
  
 “Custodial Agent” shall have the meaning
set forth in the Custodial Agreement. 
  
 “Custodial Agreement” shall mean the Custodial Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto executed and delivered contemporaneously with this Agreement. 
  
 “Debentures” means, the 7% Convertible
Debentures due, subject to the terms therein, one year from their date of issuance, issued by the Company to the Purchasers hereunder, in the form of Exhibit A. 
  
 “Disclosure Schedules” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1.

  
 “Effective Date” means the
date that the initial Registration Statement filed by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement is first declared effective by the Commission. 
  

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder. 
  
 “Exempt
Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees, officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of
Directors of the Company or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or securities
exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such
securities or to decrease the exercise, exchange or conversion price of any such securities and (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions, provided any such issuance shall only be to a Person which is, itself or
through its subsidiaries, an operating company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which the Company receives benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is
issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities. 
  
 “FW” means Feldman Weinstein LLP with offices located at 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2620, New York, New York 10170-0002.

  

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 “GAAP” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 4.1(h). 
  
 “Intellectual
Property Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o). 
  
 “Legend Removal Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c). 
  
 “Liens” means a lien, charge, mortgage,
security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restriction, but excluding Permitted Liens. 
  
 “Market Price” shall mean the average of the each of the 10 VWAPs immediately prior to the date hereof. 
  
 “Material Adverse Effect” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.1(b). 
  
 “Material Permits” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(m). 
  
 “Maximum Rate” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 6.17. 
  
 “Opus” shall mean OPUS 5949 LLC, a Texas
limited liability company, formerly known as TIE Investors, LLC. 
  
 “Opus Loan” means that certain loan by Opus to TIETEK LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, TIETEK Technologies, Inc., a Texas corporation, North American Technologies Group, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, in the original principal amount of $14,000,000 as evidenced by that certain Construction Loan Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2004, as amended, supplemented, extended, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, and the
promissory note and security documents executed pursuant thereto, as amended, replaced or restated from time to time. 
  
 “Permitted Lien” means (a) Liens securing repayment of the Opus Loan and (b) Liens as do not materially affect
the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the payment of which is neither
delinquent nor subject to penalties. 
  
 “Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or
other entity of any kind. 
  
 “Pro Rata
Share” shall mean the unconverted principal amount of the Debentures held by such Purchaser divided by the aggregate amount of unconverted Debentures held by all of the Purchasers. 
  

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 “Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding
(including, without limitation, an investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened. 
  
 “Purchaser” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 5.11. 
  
 “Registration Rights Agreement” means the
Registration Rights Agreement, as amended and restated as of the date hereof, among the Company, the Purchasers and certain other investors in the Company. 
  
 “Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement and covering the resale of the Underlying Shares by each Purchaser as provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 “Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(e). 
  
 “Required Minimum” means, as of any date,
the maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock then issued or potentially issuable in the future pursuant to the Transaction Documents, including any Underlying Shares issuable upon exercise or conversion in full of all Warrants and
Debentures (including Underlying Shares issuable as payment of interest), ignoring any conversion or exercise limits set forth therein, and assuming that the Conversion Price is at all times on and after the date of determination 75% of the then
Conversion Price on the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of determination. 
  
 “Return Request” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Article III. 
  
 “Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by
the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such Rule. 
  
 “SEC Reports” shall have the meaning
ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(h). 
  
 “Securities” means the Debentures, the Warrants, the Warrant Shares and the Underlying Shares. 
  
 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 
  
 “Short Sales” shall include all “short
sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act.
  
 “Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Debentures and Warrants purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page
of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount”, in United States Dollars and in immediately available funds. 
  

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 “Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth on
Schedule 4.1(a). 
  
 “Trading
Day” means a day on which the Common Stock is traded on a Trading Market. 
  
 “Trading Market” means the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on
the date in question: the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, the American Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National Market or the OTC Bulletin Board. 
  
 “Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Debentures, the Warrants, the
Registration Rights Agreement, the Custodial Agreement and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder. 
  
 “Underlying Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued and issuable upon conversion of
the Debentures and upon exercise of the Warrants and issued and issuable in lieu of the cash payment of interest on the Debentures in accordance with the terms of the Debentures. 
  
 “VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that
applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then
listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg Financial L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time to 4:02 p.m. Eastern Time); (b) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted on a Trading Market and if prices for the Common Stock
are then quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board; (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted on the OTC Bulletin
Board and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by the Pink Sheets, LLC (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of
the Common Stock so reported; or (c) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers and reasonably acceptable to the Company. 

 
 “Warrants” means collectively the Common
Stock purchase warrants, in the form of Exhibit B delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable immediately and have a term of exercise equal to 3 years.

  
 “Warrant Shares” means the
shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants. 
  

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 ARTICLE II. 
 PURCHASE AND SALE 
  
 2.1
Initial Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, concurrent with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell, and each Purchaser agrees to
purchase Debentures in an amount equal to the Subscription Amount set forth on such Purchaser’s signature page hereto, with an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000. On the Closing Date: (a) each Purchaser shall deliver to the Custodial
Agent via wire transfer or a certified check of immediately available funds equal to their Subscription Amount to be held in escrow by the Custodial Agent pursuant to the terms of the Custodial Agreement (the “Escrow Account”);
(b) the Custodial Agent shall deliver $1,500,000 to the Company via wire transfer or certified check of immediately available funds (subject to the Custodial Agent receiving a certificate authorizing such release as provided in the Custodial
Agreement); and (c) the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser their respective Debenture and Warrants as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a) and the other items set forth in Section 2.2 issuable on the Closing Date. 
  
 2.2 Deliveries. 
  
 a) On the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause
to be delivered to the Custodial Agent with respect to each Purchaser the following: 
  
 (i) this Agreement duly executed by the Company; 
  

(ii) a Debenture with a principal amount equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on such Purchaser’s
signature page hereto, registered in the name of such Purchaser; 
  
 (iii) a Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 25% of such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Market Price, with an exercise
price equal to $0.18, subject to adjustment therein; 
  
 (iv) the First Amendment to Amended and Restated Promissory Note with Opus which has the effect of extending the date through which quarterly principal payments can be deferred and interest payments can be made in kind on the debt to Opus
from July 7, 2006 to December 31, 2006, and the Second Amendment to Construction Loan Agreement with Opus in which Opus consents to the transactions contemplated hereby, such amendments to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Purchasers; 
  
 (v) the Custodial
Agreement duly executed by the Company; and 
  
 (vi) the amended and restated Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company. 
  

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 b) On the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Custodial Agent the following: 
  
 (i) this
Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; 
  
 (ii) such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account of the Custodial Agent to be held in escrow pursuant to the terms of the Custodial Agreement; 
  
 (iii) the Custodial Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; and 
  
 (iv) the amended and restated Registration Rights Agreement
duly executed by such Purchaser. 
  
 2.3 Closing
Conditions. 
  
 a) The obligations of the
Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met: 
  
 (i) the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers
contained herein; 
  
 (ii) all obligations,
covenants and agreements of the Purchasers required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and 
  
 (iii) the delivery by the Purchasers of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement. 
  
 b) The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in
connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met: 
  
 (iv) the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein;

  
 (v) all obligations, covenants and agreements
of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; 
  
 (vi) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement; 
  
 (vii) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with
respect to the Company since the date hereof; 
  
 (viii) the holders of the Company’s convertible debentures issued pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement dated July 7, 2005 (the “July Transaction”) which are not also a Purchaser 

  

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hereunder (if any) shall have executed and delivered the Consent, Waiver and Extension, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D; and 
  
 (ix) trading in the Common Stock shall not have been
suspended by the Commission (except for any suspension of trading of limited duration agreed to by the Company, which suspension shall be terminated prior to the Closing), and, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg Financial
Markets shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the
United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any
financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of each Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Debentures at the Closing. 
  
 2.4 Additional Investment Obligation. Each Purchaser and the Company further agree that the Purchaser shall purchase
and the Company shall sell to the Purchaser, its pro-rata share (based upon Subscription Amounts) of an aggregate of $1,500,000 principal amount of Debentures and Warrants within five (5) Trading Days of the last to occur of both (1) the
adoption of a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company finding that both production lines one and two of the Company are fully operational and capable of sustained production of at least 350 “A” line ties per line per day, and
(2) the adoption of a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company approving Company management’s plan to purchase and install a shredder/grinder/wash tank line for the Company’s production line, along with a finding that such
plan is economically viable and has superior economics to current arrangement; provided, that both such conditions shall have been met no later than October 30, 2006. Upon notice from the Company that such conditions have been met, and there
being no Event of Default then existing under the Debentures, and the closing conditions set forth in Section 2.3(b)(iv) through and including (vii) and (ix) being met, the second Closing shall occur as described in
Section 2.2(a)(ii) and (iii) and Section 2.2(b)(ii). 
  
 ARTICLE III. 
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 ARTICLE IV. 
 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 
  
 4.1
Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth under the corresponding section of the disclosure schedules delivered to the Purchasers concurrently herewith (the “Disclosure Schedules”) which Disclosure
Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof, the Company hereby makes the representations and warranties set forth below to each Purchaser. 
  
 a) Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule 4.1(a). The Company
owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, and all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid,
non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. If the Company has no subsidiaries, then references in the Transaction Documents to the Subsidiaries will be disregarded. 
  

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 b) Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an
entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization (as applicable), with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and
assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation or default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or
charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned
by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or
enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a
material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no
Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification. 
  
 c) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter
into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. the execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the
consummation by it of the transactions contemplated thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, its board of directors or its stockholders in connection
therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. Each Transaction Document has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute
the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms except (i) as limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies. 
  
 d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company
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transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any
Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default)
under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of,
any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any
Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to
which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and
(iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 e) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any
notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents,
other than (i) filings required pursuant to Section 5.6, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement and (iii) the notice and/or application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the issuance and sale of
the Debentures and Warrants and the listing of the Underlying Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby (collectively, the “Required Approvals”). 
  
 f) Issuance of the Securities. The Securities are
duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on
transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Underlying Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the
Company. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock a number of shares of Common Stock for issuance of the Underlying Shares at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date hereof. 
  
 g) Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company
is as set forth on Schedule 4.1(g). The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s
stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plan and pursuant to the conversion or exercise of outstanding Common Stock Equivalents. No Person has any right of first
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Transaction Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities, there are no outstanding options, warrants, script rights to subscribe
to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock, or
contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate
the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under such
securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors of the Company or others is required for the issuance and sale of the
Securities. There are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the
Company’s stockholders. 
  
 h) SEC
Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d)
thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being
collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”). As of their respective dates, the reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act the
SEC Reports filed by the Company complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed,
contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such
financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such
financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated
subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments. 
  

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 i) Material Changes. Since the date of the latest audited financial statements
included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in the SEC Reports, (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the
Company has not incurred any material liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be
reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or required to be disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made
any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any
officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. 
  
 j) Litigation. There is no action, suit, inquiry,
notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or
administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction
Documents or the Securities or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been
the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. There has not been, and
to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company. 
  
 k) Labor Relations. No material labor dispute exists
or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 l) Compliance. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary (i) is in default under or in violation of
(and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default
under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived),
(ii) is in violation of any order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body, or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal,
state and local laws applicable to its business except in each case as could not have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  

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 m) Regulatory Permits. The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates,
authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not
have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material
Permit. 
  
 n) Title to Assets. The
Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them
that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases of which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance. 
  
 o) Patents and Trademarks. The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications,
trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and other similar rights necessary and material for use in connection with their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so
have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a written notice that the Intellectual Property Rights used by the Company or any
Subsidiary materially violates or infringes upon the rights of any Person. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual
Property Rights of others. 
  
 p)
Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the
Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage at least equal to the aggregate Subscription Amount. To the knowledge of the Company, such insurance contracts and policies are accurate and complete.
Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any knowledge that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires. 
  

q) Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, none of the officers or directors of the
Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract,
agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of
the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $60,000 other than (i) for payment of salary or consulting fees
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services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) for other employee benefits, including stock option
agreements under any stock option plan of the Company. 
  
 r) Certain Fees. No brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may
be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. 
  
 s) Private Placement. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers representations and warranties set forth in Section 4.2, no
registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. 
  
 t) Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities,
will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. 
  
 u) Registration Rights. Other than under the Registration Rights Agreement, no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect
the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company. 
  
 v) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Company’s Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its
knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. 
  
 w) Application of Takeover Protections. The Company
and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover
provision under the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling
their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities. 
  
 x) Disclosure. All disclosure provided to the
Purchasers regarding the Company, its business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, furnished by or on behalf of the Company with respect to the representations
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correct with respect to such representations and warranties and do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect
to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 4.2 hereof. 
  
 y) No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in
Section 4.2, neither the Company, nor to its knowledge any of its Affiliates, nor to its knowledge any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any
security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the Securities Act such that the offering of Securities made hereby would be required to be
registered under the Securities Act. 
  
 z)
Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each Subsidiary has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income
and franchise tax returns and has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been asserted or threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary. 
  
 aa) No General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor
any person acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general solicitation or general advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for sale only to the Purchasers and certain other
“accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act. 
  
 bb) Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf
of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or
domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of
which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended except as the foregoing would not be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect. 
  
 cc) Seniority. As of
the Closing Date, no indebtedness or other equity of the Company is senior to the Debentures in right of payment, whether with respect to interest or upon liquidation or dissolution, or otherwise, other than indebtedness secured by purchase money
security interests (which is senior only as to underlying assets covered thereby), capital lease obligations (which is senior only as to the property covered thereby) and the Opus Loan. 
  

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 dd) No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no material
disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its
accountants and lawyers. 
  
 ee)
Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and
the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The
Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.

  
 ff) Accountants. The Company’s
accountants are set forth on Schedule 4.1(ff) of the Disclosure Schedule. To the knowledge of the Company, such accountants, who the Company expects will express their opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the
Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ending December 31, 2005 are a registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act. 
  
 gg) Acknowledgement Regarding Purchasers’ Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or
elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Section 5.14 hereof), it is understood and agreed by the Company (i) that none of the Purchasers have been asked to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing
or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term; (ii) that past or future open market or other
transactions by any Purchaser, including Short Sales, and specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively
impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities; (iii) that any Purchaser, and counter parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a
“short” position in the Common Stock, and (iv) that each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further
understands and acknowledges that (a) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the
Underlying Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined and (b) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders’ equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the
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 hh) Manipulation of Price. The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one
acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities,
(ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or, paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities (other than for the placement agent’s placement of the Securities), or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any person any
compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company. 
  
 ii) Sarbanes-Oxley. The Company is in material compliance with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which are
applicable to it as of the Closing Date. 
  
 4.2
Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser hereby, for itself and for no other Purchaser, represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows: 
  
 a) Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is an
entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization with full right, corporate or partnership power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution, delivery and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate or similar action on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid
and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of
general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification
and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law. 
  
 b) Own Account. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are “restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and is acquiring
the Securities as principal for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no present intention of
distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and has no arrangement or understanding with any other persons regarding the distribution of such Securities (this representation and
warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws) in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state
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any agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any Person to distribute any of the Securities. 
  
 c) Purchaser Status. At the time such Purchaser was
offered the Securities, it was, and at the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises any Warrants or converts any Debentures it will be either: (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3),
(a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act. Such Purchaser is not required to be registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the
Exchange Act. 
  
 d) Experience of Such
Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective
investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such
investment. 
  
 e) General Solicitation.
Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or
presented at any seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement. 
  
 f) Short Sales and Confidentiality Prior To The Date Hereof. Other than the transaction contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has
not directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, executed any disposition, including Short Sales (but not including the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of
Common Stock), in the securities of the Company during the period commencing from the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet from the Company or any other Person setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated
hereunder until the date hereof (“Discussion Time”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such
Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with
respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the
confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). 
  
 The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Purchaser does not make or has not made any representations or warranties with respect to
the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in this Section 4.2. 
  

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 ARTICLE V. 
 OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES 
  
 5.1 Transfer Restrictions. 
  
 a)
The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a
Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 5.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the
form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such
transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and shall have the rights of a Purchaser under this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 b) The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 5.1(b), of a legend
on any of the Securities in the following form: 
  
 [NEITHER]
THESE SECURITIES [NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE [EXERCISABLE] [CONVERTIBLE] HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE
SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THESE SECURITIES AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THESE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.

  
 The Company acknowledges and agrees that a
Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as
defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured
Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection 

  

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therewith. Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such
reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights
Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders thereunder.

  
 c) Certificates evidencing the Underlying
Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 5.1(b) hereof): (i) while a registration statement (including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities
Act, or (ii) following any sale of such Underlying Shares pursuant to Rule 144, or (iii) if such Underlying Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144(k), or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the
Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Company’s transfer agent promptly after the Effective Date if
required by the Company’s transfer agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder. If all or any portion of a Debenture or Warrant is converted or exercised (as applicable) at a time when there is an effective registration statement to
cover the resale of the Underlying Shares, or if such Underlying Shares may be sold under Rule 144(k) or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations thereof) then
such Underlying Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 5.1(c), it will, no later than ten Trading Days following
the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Company’s transfer agent of a certificate representing Underlying Shares, as applicable, issued with a restrictive legend (such tenth Trading Day, the “Legend Removal Date”),
deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to any transfer agent of the
Company that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section. Certificates for Securities subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the transfer agent of the Company to the Purchasers by crediting the account of the
Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System. 
  
 d) In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Underlying Shares (based on the
VWAP of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted to the Company’s transfer agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 5.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day 5
Trading Days after such damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the
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remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. 
  
 e) Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other
Purchasers, agrees that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 5.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance that the Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to
either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom. 
  
 f) Until the one year anniversary of the Effective Date, the Company shall not undertake a reverse or forward stock split or
reclassification of the Common Stock without the prior written consent of the Purchasers holding a majority in principal amount outstanding of the Debentures. 
  

5.2 Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of
Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation its obligation to issue the Underlying Shares
pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser
and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the Company. 
  
 5.3 Furnishing of Information. As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, the Company covenants to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect
thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act. As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, if the Company is not required to file reports
pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the Purchasers and make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is required for the Purchasers to sell the Securities under Rule 144. The Company further
covenants that it will take such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Person to sell such Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the
limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144. 
  
 5.4
Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the
Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities to the Purchasers or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any
Trading Market. 
  
 5.5 Conversion and Exercise Procedures.
The form of Notice of Exercise included in the Warrants and the form of Notice of Conversion included in the Debentures set forth the totality of the procedures required of the Purchasers in order to exercise the Warrants or convert the Debentures.
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required of the Purchasers to exercise their Warrants or convert their Debentures. The Company shall honor exercises of the Warrants and conversions of the
Debentures and shall deliver Underlying Shares in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Transaction Documents. 
  
 5.6 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall issue a Current Report on Form 8-K within the time period required by law, reasonably
acceptable to each Purchaser disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and shall attach the Transaction Documents thereto. The Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases
with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release or otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press
release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing
party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. 
  
 5.7 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any other Person that any
Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any shareholder rights plan or similar plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or
arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become subject to the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. 
  
 5.8 Non-Public
Information. The Company covenants and agrees that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public
information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing
representations in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. 
  
 5.9 Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.9 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and not for the satisfaction of any
portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), to redeem any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or to settle any outstanding litigation.
Other than the initial disbursement of $1,500,000 at the Closing, the Company shall not request any further disbursements from the Custodial Account until and unless the Company has entered into a long-term supply contract with Union Pacific Railway
Company (or an affiliated Person) on terms which the Board of Directors of the Company has expressly determined is economically viable for the Company. If such agreement has not been executed by all parties thereto on or before February 15,
2006, the Custodial Account shall be dealt with as set forth in Section 2(c)(iii) of the Custodial Agreement. 
  

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 5.10 Reimbursement. If any Purchaser becomes involved in any capacity in any Proceeding by or
against any Person who is a stockholder of the Company (except as a result of sales, pledges, margin sales and similar transactions by such Purchaser to or with any current stockholder), solely as a result of such Purchaser’s acquisition of the
Securities under this Agreement, the Company will reimburse such Purchaser for its reasonable legal and other expenses (including the cost of any investigation preparation and travel in connection therewith) incurred in connection therewith, as such
expenses are incurred. The reimbursement obligations of the Company under this paragraph shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have, shall extend upon the same terms and conditions to any Affiliates of the Purchasers
who are actually named in such action, proceeding or investigation, and partners, directors, agents, employees and controlling persons (if any), as the case may be, of the Purchasers and any such Affiliate, and shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of any successors, assigns, heirs and personal representatives of the Company, the Purchasers and any such Affiliate and any such Person. The Company also agrees that neither the Purchasers nor any such Affiliates, partners, directors,
agents, employees or controlling persons shall have any liability to the Company or any Person asserting claims on behalf of or in right of the Company solely as a result of acquiring the Securities under this Agreement. 
  
 5.11 Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this
Section 5.11, the Company will indemnify and hold the Purchasers and their directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities,
obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a
result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against a Purchaser, or any
of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such
Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any violations by the Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or
any conduct by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such
Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action
and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing,
(ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of such separate counsel, a material conflict on any material issue
between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (i) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior
written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations,

  

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warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Purchasers in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. 
  
 5.12 Reservation and Listing of Securities. 
  
 a) The Company shall maintain a reserve from its duly
authorized shares of Common Stock for issuance pursuant to the Transaction Documents in such amount as may be required to fulfill its obligations in full under the Transaction Documents. 
  
 b) If, on any date, the number of authorized but unissued (and otherwise unreserved) shares of Common Stock
is less than the Required Minimum on such date, then the Board of Directors of the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to amend the Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation to increase the number of authorized but
unissued shares of Common Stock to at least the Required Minimum at such time, as soon as possible and in any event not later than the 75th day after such date. 
  
 c) The Company shall, if applicable: (i) in the time and manner required by the Trading Market, prepare
and file with such Trading Market an additional shares listing application covering a number of shares of Common Stock at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date of such application, (ii) take all steps necessary to cause such shares of
Common Stock to be approved for listing on the Trading Market as soon as possible thereafter, (iii) provide to the Purchasers evidence of such listing, and (iv) maintain the listing of such Common Stock on any date at least equal to the
Required Minimum on such date on such Trading Market or another Trading Market. 
  
 5.13 Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration shall be offered or paid to any person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same
consideration is also offered to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents. Further, the Company shall not make any payment of principal or interest on the Debentures in amounts which are disproportionate to the respective principal amounts
outstanding on the Debentures at any applicable time. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to
treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise. 
  
 5.14 Short Sales and Confidentiality After The Date Hereof. Each
Purchaser severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers covenants that neither it nor any Affiliates acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any Short Sales for a period ending three (3) days after the
time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced as described in Section 5.6. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company as described in Section 5.6, such Purchaser will maintain, the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and
terms of this transaction). Each Purchaser understands and acknowledges, severally and not jointly with any other Purchaser, that the Commission currently takes the position that coverage of short sales of shares of the Common Stock “against
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prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement with the Securities is a violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act, as set forth in
Item 65, Section 5 under Section A, of the Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations, dated July 1997, compiled by the Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Corporation Finance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Purchaser makes
any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in Short Sales in the securities of the Company after the three (3) day period beginning at the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly
announced as described in Section 5.6. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the
portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets
managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. 
  
 5.15 Consent and Waiver. To the extent a Purchaser is also a purchaser under the July Transaction, such Purchaser hereby consents to the
transactions contemplated hereby, to the extent required under the July Transaction documents, and hereby waives any provision thereunder that would prohibit the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, any provision
prohibiting the Company from incurring additional Indebtedness or granting Liens on its assets. Such consent and waiver is limited to the transactions hereunder and except as specifically waived by the terms of this Agreement, the July Transaction
documents shall remain unmodified and in full force and effect, and shall not be in any way changed, modified or superseded by the terms set forth herein, except that the Maturity Date of the July Debentures shall be extended to December 31,
2006. 
  
 ARTICLE VI. 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 6.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any
effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before December 30, 2005; provided, however, that no such
termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by the other party (or parties). 
  
 6.2 Fees and Expenses. At the Closing, the Company has agreed to reimburse the Purchasers up to $10,000 for their actual, reasonable, out-of-pocket
legal fees and expenses, incurred in the preparation and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel,
accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all transfer agent fees, stamp taxes and
other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities. 
  

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 6.3 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto,
contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such
documents, exhibits and schedules. 
  
 6.4 Notices. Any and
all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is
delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication
is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the 2nd Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the
party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto. 
  

6.5 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an
amendment, by the Company and each Purchaser, or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waiver is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall
be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of either party to exercise any right hereunder in any
manner impair the exercise of any such right. 
  
 6.6
Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language
chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party. 
  
 6.7 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted
assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser. Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such
Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions hereof that apply to the “Purchasers”. 
  
 6.8 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the
benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 5.11. 
  
 6.9 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction,
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enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that
all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors,
officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting
in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the
Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or
inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or
overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained
herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. The parties hereby waive all rights to a trial by jury. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the
Transaction Documents, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such
action or proceeding. 
  
 6.10 Survival. The
representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery, exercise and/or conversion of the Securities, as applicable for the applicable statue of limitations. 
  
 6.11 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more
counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that both parties need
not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same
force and effect as if such facsimile signature page were an original thereof. 
  
 6.12 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of this Agreement shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby and the parties will attempt to agree upon a valid and enforceable provision that is a reasonable substitute therefor, and upon so agreeing, shall incorporate such substitute provision in this Agreement.

  
 6.13 Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) the Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely
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to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights;
provided, however, in the case of a rescission of a conversion of a Debenture or exercise of a Warrant, the Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded conversion or exercise notice.

  
 6.14 Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or
instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof, or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or
instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction and customary and reasonable indemnity, if requested. The applicants for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances
shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities. 
  
 6.15 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the
Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations described in
the foregoing sentence and hereby agrees to waive in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate. 
  
 6.16 Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any
Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or
preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or
federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not
been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred. 
  
 6.17
Usury. To the extent it may lawfully do so, the Company hereby agrees not to insist upon or plead or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will resist any and all efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, usury laws wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, in connection with any claim, action or proceeding that may be brought by any Purchaser in order to enforce any right or remedy under any Transaction Document. Notwithstanding any provision to the
contrary contained in any Transaction Document, it is expressly agreed and provided that the total liability of the Company under the Transaction Documents for payments in the nature of interest shall not exceed the maximum lawful rate authorized
under applicable law (the “Maximum Rate”), and, without limiting the foregoing, in no event shall any rate of interest or default interest, or both of them, when aggregated with any other sums in the nature of interest that the
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decreased by statute or any official governmental action subsequent to the date hereof, the new maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law will be the
Maximum Rate applicable to the Transaction Documents from the effective date forward, unless such application is precluded by applicable law. If under any circumstances whatsoever, interest in excess of the Maximum Rate is paid by the Company to any
Purchaser with respect to indebtedness evidenced by the Transaction Documents, such excess shall be applied by such Purchaser to the unpaid principal balance of any such indebtedness or be refunded to the Company, the manner of handling such excess
to be at such Purchaser’s election. 
  
 6.18 Independent
Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the
performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a
partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other
Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in their review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative
convenience only, Purchasers and their respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through FW. FW does not represent all of the Purchasers but only Midsummer. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms
and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by the Purchasers. 
  
 6.19 Liquidated Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction
Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial
liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled. 
  
 6.20 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to
the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments hereto. 
  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed
by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above. 
  

									
	NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC.	 	 	 	 	 	 Address for Notice:

					
	By:	 	/s/    HENRY W. SULLIVAN        	 	 	 	 	 	 14315 West Hardy Road

	 Name:
	 	Henry W. Sullivan	 	 	 	 	 	 Houston, Texas 77060

	 Title:
	 	President	 	 	 	 	 	 

  
 With
a copy to (which shall not constitute notice): 
  
 Boyer & Ketchand 
 9 Greenway Plaza, Suite 3100 
 Houston, Texas 77019 
 Attn: John R. Boyer

 Tel: (713) 871-2025 
 Fax:
(713) 871-2024 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by
their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above. 
  

			
	 Name of Purchaser:
	  	 

			
	Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:	  	 

			
	 Name of Authorized Signatory:
	  	 

			
	 Title of Authorized Signatory:
	  	 

			
	 Email Address of Purchaser:
	  	 

  
 Address for Notice of Purchaser: 
  
 Address for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above): 
  
 Do you want a 9.99% beneficial ownership blocker in your Warrant and Debenture? 
  
  ̈
Yes                                        
          ̈ No 
  
 First Closing Subscription Amount: 
  
 Second Closing Subscription Amount: 
  
 Warrant Shares: 
  
 EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]Form of 7% Convertable Debenture

 EXHIBIT 10.2 
  
 NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS
EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION
WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES. 
  
 Original Issue Date: 
 Original Conversion Price (subject to adjustment herein): $0.22

  
 $                     
  
 7% CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURE 
 DUE
DECEMBER 31, 2006 
  
 THIS 7% CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURE is one of
a series of duly authorized and issued 7% Convertible Debentures of North American Technologies Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, having a principal place of business at 14315 West Hardy Road, Houston, TX 77060 (the “Company”),
designated as its 7% Convertible Debenture, due December 31, 2006 (this debenture, the “Debenture” and collectively with the other such series of debentures, the “Debentures”). 
  
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the Company promises to pay to
                                        
             or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), or shall have paid pursuant to the terms hereunder, the principal sum of
$                     by December 31, 2006, or such earlier date as this Debenture is required or permitted to be repaid as provided
hereunder (the “Maturity Date”), and to pay interest to the Holder on the aggregate unconverted and then outstanding principal amount of this Debenture in accordance with the provisions hereof. This Debenture is subject to the
following additional provisions: 
  
 Section 1.
Definitions. For the purposes hereof, in addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Debenture: (a) capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Purchase Agreement, and (b) the
following terms shall have the following meanings: 
  
 “Alternate Consideration” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(d). 

 “Base Conversion Price” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5(b). 
  
 “Business
Day” means any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be a federal legal holiday in the United States or a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by law or other government action
to close. 
  
 “Buy-In” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 4(d)(v). 
  
 “Change of Control Transaction” means the occurrence after the date hereof of any of (i) an acquisition after the date hereof by an individual or legal entity or “group” (as described in Rule 13d-5(b)(1)
promulgated under the Exchange Act) other than the holders of the Debentures of effective control (whether through legal or beneficial ownership of capital stock of the Company, by contract or otherwise) of in excess of 50% of the voting securities
of the Company other than by a Purchaser or its Affiliates, or (ii) the Company merges into or consolidates with any other Person, or any Person merges into or consolidates with the Company and, after giving effect to such transaction, the
stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own less than 50% of the aggregate voting power of the Company or the successor entity of such transaction, or (iii) the Company sells or transfers its assets, as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety, to another Person and the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own less than 50% of the aggregate voting power of the acquiring entity immediately after the transaction, (iv) a
replacement at one time or within a three year period of more than one-half of the members of the Company’s board of directors which is not approved by a majority of those individuals who are members of the board of directors on the date hereof
(or by those individuals who are serving as members of the board of directors on any date whose nomination to the board of directors was approved by a majority of the members of the board of directors who are members on the date hereof) or not
approved by the holders of the Debentures, or (v) the execution by the Company of an agreement to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound, providing for any of the events set forth above in (i) through (iv). 
  
 “Common Stock” means the common stock, par
value $0.001 per share, of the Company and stock of any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter have been reclassified or changed into. 
  
 “Common Stock Equivalents” shall mean any debt, equity or equity equivalent securities
exercisable, convertible, exchangeable or payable in shares of Common Stock. 
  
 “Conversion Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a). 
  
 “Conversion Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(b). 
  
 “Conversion Shares” means the shares of
Common Stock issuable upon conversion of this Debenture or as payment of interest in accordance with the terms hereof. 
  

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 “Debenture Register” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2(b). 
  
 “Dilutive
Issuance” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(b). 
  
 “Dilutive Issuance Notice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(b). 
  
 “Effectiveness Period” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 “Enforcement Action” shall mean (a) to
take from or for the account of the Company by set-off or in any other manner, the whole or any part of any monies which may now or hereafter be owing by the Company with respect to the Debenture, (b) to sue for payment of, or to initiate or
participate with others in any suit, action or proceeding against the Company to (i) enforce payment of or to collect the whole or any part of the Debenture or (ii) commence judicial enforcement of any of the rights and remedies under the
Debenture or applicable law with respect to the Debenture, (c) to accelerate the Debenture, (d) to cause the Company to honor any conversion or mandatory prepayment obligation under the Debenture or (e) to take any action under the
provisions of any state or federal law, including, without limitation, the Uniform Commercial Code, or under any contract or agreement to enforce, foreclose upon, take possession of or sell any property or assets of the Company. 
  
 “Event of Default” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 8. 
  
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. 
  
 “Fundamental Transaction” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(d). 
  
 “Interest Conversion Rate” means the lesser
of (a) the Conversion Price and (b) the 100% of the lesser of (i) the average of the 20 VWAPs immediately prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date or (ii) the average of the 20 VWAPs immediately prior to the date the
applicable interest payment shares are issued and delivered if after the Interest Payment Date. 
  
 “Interest Payment Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a). 
  
 “Interest Share Amount” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 2(a). 
  
 “Late Fees” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(c). 
  
 “Mandatory Default Amount” shall equal the sum of (i) the greater of: (A) 110% of the principal amount of this
Debenture to be prepaid, plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, or (B) the principal amount of this Debenture to be prepaid, plus all other accrued and unpaid interest hereon, divided by the Conversion Price on (x) the date the
Mandatory Default Amount is demanded or otherwise due or (y) the date the Mandatory Default Amount is paid in full, whichever is less, multiplied by the VWAP on (x) the date the Mandatory Default Amount is demanded or otherwise due or
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the Mandatory Default Amount is paid in full, whichever is greater, and (ii) all other amounts, costs, expenses and liquidated damages due in respect of
this Debenture. 
  
 “New York
Courts” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9(d). 
  
 “Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a). 
  
 “Obligations” means any principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other
liabilities payable under the documentation governing any indebtedness. 
  
 “Opus” means Opus 5949 LLC, a Texas limited liability company, formerly known as TIE Investors, LLC. 
  
 “Opus Loan” means that certain loan by Opus to TIETEK LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, TIETEK Technologies,
Inc., a Texas corporation, North American Technologies Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in the original principal amount of $14,000,000 as evidenced by that certain Construction Loan Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2004, as amended,
supplemented, extended, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, and the Promissory Note and security agreements executed pursuant thereto, as amended, replaced or restated from time to time. 
  
 “Original Issue Date” shall mean the date
of the first issuance of the Debentures regardless of the number of transfers of any Debenture and regardless of the number of instruments which may be issued to evidence such Debenture. 
  
 “Person” means a corporation, an association, a partnership, organization, a business, an
individual, a government or political subdivision thereof or a governmental agency. 
  
 “Purchase Agreement” means the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 28, 2005, to which the Company
and the original Holder are parties, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms. 
  
 “Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement as amended and restated as of the date of the
Purchase Agreement, among the Company, the original Holder and certain other investors in the Company, as may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set forth
in the Registration Rights Agreement, covering among other things the resale of the Conversion Shares and naming the Holder as a “selling stockholder” thereunder. 
  
 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder. 
  
 “Subsidiary” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Purchase Agreement. 
  

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 “Trading Day” means a day on which the Common Stock is traded on a
Trading Market. 
  
 “Trading
Market” means the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, the American Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National
Market or the OTC Bulletin Board. 
  
 “Transaction Documents” shall have the meaning set forth in the Purchase Agreement. 
  
 “VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the
Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported
by Bloomberg Financial L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time to 4:02 p.m. Eastern Time); (b) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted on a Trading Market and if prices for the Common Stock are then quoted on the OTC
Bulletin Board, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board; (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board and if prices for the
Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by the Pink Sheets, LLC (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so
reported; or (c) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Holder and reasonably acceptable to the Company. 
  
 Section 2. Interest. 
  
 a) Payment of Interest in Kind. The Company shall pay
interest to the Holder on the aggregate unconverted and then outstanding principal amount of this Debenture at the rate of 7% per annum, payable quarterly on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1, beginning on
the first such date after the Original Issue Date, on each Conversion Date (as to that principal amount then being converted) and on the Maturity Date (except that, if any such date is not a Business Day, then such payment shall be due on the next
succeeding Business Day) (each such date, an “Interest Accrual Date”), in shares of Common Stock at the Interest Conversion Rate (the amount to be paid in shares, the “Interest Share Amount”). As to such Interest
Accrual Date, within 3 Trading Days of such Interest Accrual Date (each such date, an “Interest Payment Date”), the Company shall have delivered to the Holder’s account with The Depository Trust Company (if registered for
resale, and otherwise to the Holder) a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient of (x) the applicable Interest Share Amount divided by (y) the then Interest Conversion Price. 
  
 b) Interest Calculations. Interest shall be
calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and shall accrue daily commencing on the Original Issue Date until payment in full of the principal sum, together with all accrued and unpaid interest and other amounts 

  

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which may become due hereunder, has been made. Payment of interest in shares of Common Stock shall otherwise occur pursuant to Section 4(d)(ii) and the
Interest Payment Date shall be deemed the Conversion Date. Interest shall cease to accrue with respect to any principal amount converted, provided that the Company in fact delivers the Conversion Shares within the time period required by
Section 4(d)(ii). Interest hereunder will be paid to the Person in whose name this Debenture is registered on the records of the Company regarding registration and transfers of Debentures (the “Debenture Register”). 

 
 c) Late Fee. All overdue accrued and unpaid
interest to be paid hereunder shall entail a late fee at the rate of 18% per annum (or such lower maximum amount of interest permitted to be charged under applicable law) (“Late Fees”) which will accrue daily, from the date
such interest is due hereunder through and including the date of payment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if on any Interest Payment Date the Company is not able to pay accrued interest in the form of Common Stock because
it does not then satisfy the conditions for payment in the form of Common Stock set forth above, then, at the option of the Holder, the Company, in lieu of delivering shares of Common Stock pursuant to this Section 2, shall deliver, within
three Trading Days of each applicable Interest Payment Date, an amount in cash equal to the product of the number of shares of Common Stock otherwise deliverable to the Holder in connection with the payment of interest due on such Interest Payment
Date and the highest VWAP during the period commencing on the Interest Payment Date and ending on the Trading Day prior to the date such payment is made. 
  
 d) Prepayment. Except as otherwise set forth in this Debenture and except pursuant to a Return Request as set forth in Article III
of the Purchase Agreement, the Company may not prepay any portion of the principal amount of this Debenture without the prior written consent of the Holder. 
  
 Section 3. Registration of Transfers and Exchanges. 
  
 a) Different Denominations. This Debenture is exchangeable for an equal aggregate principal amount of Debentures of different
authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for such registration of transfer or exchange. 
  
 b) Investment Representations. This Debenture has been issued subject to certain investment representations of the original Holder
set forth in the Purchase Agreement and may be transferred or exchanged only in compliance with the Purchase Agreement and applicable federal and state securities laws and regulations. 
  
 c) Reliance on Debenture Register. Prior to due presentment to the Company for transfer of this
Debenture, the Company and any agent of the Company may treat the Person in whose name this Debenture is duly registered on the Debenture Register as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment as herein provided and for all other
purposes, whether or not this Debenture is overdue, and neither the Company nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  

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 Section 4. Conversion. 
  
 a) Voluntary Conversion. At any time after the Original Issue Date until this Debenture is no longer
outstanding, this Debenture shall be convertible into shares of Common Stock at the option of the Holder, in whole or in part at any time and from time to time (subject to the limitations on conversion set forth in Section 4(c) hereof). The
Holder shall effect conversions by delivering to the Company the form of Notice of Conversion attached hereto as Annex A (a “Notice of Conversion”), specifying therein the principal amount of this Debenture to be converted
and the date on which such conversion is to be effected (a “Conversion Date”). If no Conversion Date is specified in a Notice of Conversion, the Conversion Date shall be the date that such Notice of Conversion is provided hereunder.
To effect conversions hereunder, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Debenture to the Company unless the entire principal amount of this Debenture plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon has been so converted.
Conversions hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding principal amount of this Debenture in an amount equal to the applicable conversion. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the principal amount converted and
the date of such conversions. The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Conversion within 1 Business Day of receipt of such notice. In the event of any dispute or discrepancy, the records of the Holder shall be controlling and
determinative in the absence of manifest error. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Debenture, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following conversion of a portion of this Debenture, the unpaid
and unconverted principal amount of this Debenture may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof. 
  
 b) Conversion Price. The conversion price in effect on any Conversion Date shall be equal to $0.22 (subject to adjustment
herein)(the “Conversion Price”). 
  
 c) Holder’s Restriction on Conversion. The Company shall not effect any conversion of this Debenture, and the Holder shall not have the right to convert any portion of this Debenture, pursuant to Section 4(a) or otherwise,
to the extent that after giving effect to such conversion, the Holder (together with the Holder’s affiliates and any other Person acting as a group together with such Holder or any of the Holder’s affiliates), as set forth on the
applicable Notice of Conversion, would beneficially own in excess of 9.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares
of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of this Debenture with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall
exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (A) conversion of the remaining, nonconverted portion of this Debenture beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its affiliates and (B) exercise or conversion of
the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any other Debentures or the Warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein
beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its affiliates. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 4(c)(ii), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) 

  

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of the Exchange Act. To the extent that the limitation contained in this section applies, the determination of whether this Debenture is convertible (in
relation to other securities owned by the Holder) and of which a portion of this Debenture is convertible shall be in the sole discretion of such Holder. To ensure compliance with this restriction, the Holder will be deemed to represent to the
Company each time it delivers a Notice of Conversion that such Notice of Conversion has not violated the restrictions set forth in this paragraph and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. For
purposes of this Section 4(c)(ii), in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (x) the Company’s most recently filed Form
10-QSB or Form 10-KSB, as the case may be, (y) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (z) any other notice by the Company or the Company’s Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding. Upon the written or oral request of the Holder, the Company shall within two Trading Days confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of
outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Debenture, by the Holder or its affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding
shares of Common Stock was reported. 
  
 d)
Mechanics of Conversion 
  
 i.
Conversion Shares Issuable Upon Conversion of Principal Amount. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon a conversion hereunder shall be determined by the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the outstanding principal amount of
this Debenture to be converted by (y) the Conversion Price. 
  
 ii. Delivery of Certificate Upon Conversion. Not later than ten Trading Days after any Conversion Date, the Company will deliver or cause to be delivered to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing
the Conversion Shares which shall be free of restrictive legends and trading restrictions (other than those required by the Purchase Agreement) representing the number of shares of Common Stock being acquired upon the conversion of this Debenture
(including, shares of Common Stock representing the payment of accrued interest otherwise determined pursuant to Section 2(a). The Company shall, if available and if allowed under applicable securities laws, use its best efforts to deliver any
certificate or certificates required to be delivered by the Company under this Section electronically through the Depository Trust Corporation or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions. 
  
 iii. Failure to Deliver Certificates. If in the case
of any Notice of Conversion such certificate or certificates are not delivered to or as directed by the applicable Holder by the tenth Trading Day after a Conversion Date, the Holder shall be entitled by written notice to the Company at any time on
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in which event the Company shall immediately return the certificates representing the principal amount of this Debenture tendered for conversion. 

 
 iv. Obligation Absolute; Partial Liquidated
Damages. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder such certificate or certificates pursuant to Section 4(d)(ii) by the tenth Trading Day after the Conversion Date, the Company shall pay to such Holder, in cash, as
liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1000 of principal amount being converted, $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day after 5 Trading Days after such damages begin to accrue) for each Trading Day after such tenth
Trading Day until such certificates are delivered. The Company’s obligations to issue and deliver the Conversion Shares upon conversion of this Debenture in accordance with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any
action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment against any Person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation
or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by the Holder or any other Person of any obligation to the Company or any violation or alleged violation of law by the Holder or any other person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which might
otherwise limit such obligation of the Company to the Holder in connection with the issuance of such Conversion Shares; provided, however, such delivery shall not operate as a waiver by the Company of any such action the Company may
have against the Holder. In the event the Holder of this Debenture shall elect to convert any or all of the outstanding principal amount hereof, the Company may not refuse conversion based on any claim that the Holder or any one associated or
affiliated with the Holder has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless, an injunction from a court, on notice, restraining and or enjoining conversion of all or part of this Debenture shall have been sought
and obtained and the Company posts a surety bond for the benefit of the Holder in the amount of 150% of the principal amount of this Debenture outstanding, which is subject to the injunction, which bond shall remain in effect until the completion of
arbitration/litigation of the dispute and the proceeds of which shall be payable to such Holder to the extent it obtains judgment. In the absence of an injunction precluding the same, the Company shall issue Conversion Shares or, if applicable,
cash, upon a properly noticed conversion. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue actual damages or declare an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8 herein for the Company’s failure to deliver Conversion Shares within
the period specified herein and such Holder shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. The exercise of any such rights
shall not prohibit the Holder from seeking to enforce damages pursuant to any other Section hereof or under applicable law. 
  
 v. Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Conversion. In addition to any other rights available to
the Holder, if the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder such certificate or certificates pursuant to Section 4(d)(ii) by the tenth Trading Day after the 

  

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Conversion Date, and if after such tenth Trading Day the Holder is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise)
Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such Holder of the Conversion Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such conversion (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder (in
addition to any remedies available to or elected by the Holder) the amount by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the product of
(1) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that such Holder anticipated receiving from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2) the actual sale price of the Common Stock at the time of the sale (including brokerage commissions, if
any) giving rise to such purchase obligation and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reissue (if surrendered) this Debenture in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of the attempted conversion or deliver to the Holder the number
of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its delivery requirements under Section 4(d)(ii). For example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a
Buy-In with respect to an attempted conversion of this Debenture with respect to which the actual sale price of the Conversion Shares at the time of the sale (including brokerage commissions, if any) giving rise to such purchase obligation was a
total of $10,000 under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the
Buy-In. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if a Holder requires the Company to make payment in respect of a Buy-In for the failure to timely deliver certificates hereunder and the Company timely pays in full such payment, the
Company shall not be required to pay such Holder liquidated damages under Section 4(d)(iv) in respect of the certificates resulting in such Buy-In. 
  
 vi. Reservation of Shares Issuable Upon Conversion. The Company covenants that it will at all times after the Authorized Share
Effective Date reserve and keep available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock solely for the purpose of issuance upon conversion of this Debenture and payment of interest on this Debenture, each as herein provided, free from
preemptive rights or any other actual contingent purchase rights of persons other than the Holder (and the other holders of the Debentures), not less than such number of shares of the Common Stock as shall (subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in the Purchase Agreement) be issuable (taking into account the adjustments and restrictions of Section 5) upon the conversion of the outstanding principal amount of this Debenture and payment of interest hereunder. The Company covenants
that all shares of Common Stock that shall be so issuable after the Authorized Share Effective Date shall, upon issue, be duly and validly authorized, issued and fully paid, nonassessable and, if the Registration Statement is then effective under
the Securities Act, registered for public sale in accordance with such Registration Statement. 
  

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 vii. Fractional Shares. Upon a conversion hereunder the Company shall not be
required to issue stock certificates representing fractions of shares of the Common Stock, but may if otherwise permitted, make a cash payment in respect of any final fraction of a share based on the VWAP at such time. If the Company elects not, or
is unable, to make such a cash payment, the Holder shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of the final fraction of a share, one whole share of Common Stock. 
  
 viii. Transfer Taxes. The issuance of certificates for shares of the Common Stock on conversion of this Debenture shall be made
without charge to the Holder hereof for any documentary stamp or similar taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of such certificate, provided that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax that may be payable in respect
of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any such certificate upon conversion in a name other than that of the Holder of this Debenture so converted and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such certificates unless
or until the person or persons requesting the issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid. 
  
 Section 5. Certain Adjustments. 
  
 a) Stock Dividends and Stock Splits. If the Company,
at any time while this Debenture is outstanding: (A) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable in shares of Common Stock
(which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company pursuant to this Debenture, including as interest thereon), (B) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares,
(C) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (D) issues by reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then the
Conversion Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the denominator shall be the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification. 
  
 b) Subsequent Equity Sales. If the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, as applicable, at any time while this Debenture is
outstanding, shall offer, sell, grant any option to purchase or offer, sell or grant any right to reprice its securities, or otherwise dispose of or issue (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition) any Common
Stock or Common Stock Equivalents entitling any Person to acquire shares of Common Stock, at an effective price per share less than the then Conversion Price (such lower price, the “Base Conversion Price” and such issuances 

  

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collectively, a “Dilutive Issuance”), as adjusted hereunder, then the Conversion Price shall be reduced in accordance with the following
formula: 
  

									
	Base Conversion Price	  	=	  	Conversion Price     x    	 	X + Y	  	 
	 	  	 	  	 	 	X + Z	  	 

  
 Where: 
  

			
	X   =	  	those shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately before the Dilutive Issuance;
		
	Y   =	  	shares of Common Stock issuable at the Conversion Price for the total consideration received in the Dilutive Issuance; and
		
	Z   =	  	those shares issued in the Dilutive Issuance

  
 For purposes of the
foregoing, if the holder of the Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents so issued shall at any time, whether by operation of purchase price adjustments, reset provisions, floating conversion, exercise or exchange prices or otherwise, or due to
warrants, options or rights per share which are issued in connection with such issuance, be entitled to receive shares of Common Stock at an effective price per share which is less than the Conversion Price, such issuance shall be deemed to have
occurred for less than the Conversion Price on such date of the Dilutive Issuance. 
  
 The adjustment required under this Section 5(b) shall be made whenever such Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents are issued. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no adjustment will be made under this
Section 5(b) in respect of an Exempt Issuance. The Company shall notify the Holder in writing, no later than the Business Day following the issuance of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents subject to this section, indicating therein the
applicable issuance price, or of applicable reset price, exchange price, conversion price and other pricing terms (such notice the “Dilutive Issuance Notice”). For purposes of clarification, whether or not the Company provides a
Dilutive Issuance Notice pursuant to this Section 5 (b), upon the occurrence of any Dilutive Issuance, after the date of such Dilutive Issuance the Holder is entitled to receive a number of Conversion Shares based upon the Base Conversion Price
regardless of whether the Holder accurately refers to the Base Conversion Price in the Notice of Conversion. 
  
 c) Pro Rata Distributions. If the Company, at any time while this Debenture is outstanding, shall distribute to all holders of
Common Stock (and not to the holders of the Debenture) evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including cash and cash dividends) or rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security, then in each such case the Conversion Price shall be
adjusted by multiplying such Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the record date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the denominator shall be the VWAP determined as of the
record date mentioned above, and of which the numerator shall be such VWAP on such record date less the then fair market value at such record date of the portion of such assets or evidence of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one outstanding
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good faith. In either case the adjustments shall be described in a statement provided to the Holder of the portion of assets or evidences of indebtedness so
distributed or such subscription rights applicable to one share of Common Stock. Such adjustment shall be made whenever any such distribution is made and shall become effective immediately after the record date mentioned above. 
  
 d) Fundamental Transaction. If, at any time while
this Debenture is outstanding, (A) the Company effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (B) the Company effects any sale of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related
transactions, (C) any tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property, or
(D) the Company effects any reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property (in any such case, a
“Fundamental Transaction”), then upon any subsequent conversion of this Debenture, the Holder shall have the right to receive, for each Conversion Share that would have been issuable upon such conversion immediately prior to the
occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction, the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property as it would have been entitled to receive upon the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction if it had been, immediately prior to such Fundamental
Transaction, the holder of one share of Common Stock (the “Alternate Consideration”). For purposes of any such conversion, the determination of the Conversion Price shall be appropriately adjusted to apply to such Alternate
Consideration based on the amount of Alternate Consideration issuable in respect of one share of Common Stock in such Fundamental Transaction, and the Company shall apportion the Conversion Price among the Alternate Consideration in a reasonable
manner reflecting the relative value of any different components of the Alternate Consideration. If holders of Common Stock are given any choice as to the securities, cash or property to be received in a Fundamental Transaction, then the Holder
shall be given the same choice as to the Alternate Consideration it receives upon any conversion of this Debenture following such Fundamental Transaction. To the extent necessary to effectuate the foregoing provisions, any successor to the Company
or surviving entity in such Fundamental Transaction shall issue to the Holder a new debenture consistent with the foregoing provisions and evidencing the Holder’s right to convert such debenture into Alternate Consideration. The terms of any
agreement pursuant to which a Fundamental Transaction is effected shall include terms requiring any such successor or surviving entity to comply with the provisions of this paragraph (d) and insuring that this Debenture (or any such replacement
security) will be similarly adjusted upon any subsequent transaction analogous to a Fundamental Transaction. 
  
 e) Calculations. All calculations under this Section 5 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as
the case may be. For purposes of this Section 5, the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and
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 f) Notice to the Holder. 
  
 i. Adjustment to Conversion Price. Whenever the
Conversion Price is adjusted pursuant to any of this Section 5, the Company shall promptly mail to each Holder a notice setting forth the Conversion Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such
adjustment. If the Company issues a variable rate security the Company shall be deemed to have issued Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents at the lowest possible conversion or exercise price at which such securities may be converted or
exercised. 
  
 ii. Notice to Allow Conversion
by Holder. If (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution) on the Common Stock; (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Common Stock; (C) the Company
shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Common Stock rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any rights; (D) the approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required in
connection with any reclassification of the Common Stock, any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, of any compulsory share exchange whereby the Common
Stock is converted into other securities, cash or property; (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company; then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be
filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of this Debenture, and shall cause to be mailed to the Holder at its last addresses as it shall appear upon the stock books of the Company, at least 20 calendar days prior to
the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the
date as of which the holders of the Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer
or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of the Common Stock for securities, cash or other property
deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange; provided, that the failure to mail such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate
action required to be specified in such notice. The Holder is entitled to convert this Debenture during the 20-day period commencing the date of such notice to the effective date of the event triggering such notice. 
  
 Section 6. The Opus Loan. 
  
 a) Payment Restrictions. The Company hereby
agrees that it may not make, and the Holder hereby agrees that it will not accept, any payment or distribution with respect to the Debenture (other than the Interest Share Amount) until the Opus Loan is indefeasibly paid in full in cash. 

  

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 b) Standstill Provisions. Until the Opus Loan is indefeasibly paid in full in
cash, Holder shall not, without the prior written consent of Opus, take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Debenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) Holder may file proofs of claim against the Company in any bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Company or its property and (b) Holder may accelerate the Debenture to the extent the Opus Loan has been accelerated; provided, that if the acceleration of
the Opus Loan has been rescinded, Holder shall be deemed to have automatically rescinded its acceleration of the Debenture. Any payments or distributions or other proceeds of any Enforcement Action obtained by Holder in violation of the foregoing
prohibition shall in any event be held in trust by Holder for the benefit of Opus and promptly paid or delivered to Opus in the form received until the Opus Loan is indefeasibly paid in full in cash. 
  
 c) When Distribution Must Be Paid Over. In the event
that the Holder receives any payment of any Obligations not permitted to be made by the Company or accepted by the Holder with respect to this Debenture, such payment shall not be commingled with any of the assets of the Holder, shall be held in
trust by such Holder for the benefit of Opus and shall be paid forthwith over and delivered to Opus as their interests may appear or any representative of Opus for application to the payment of all Obligations with respect to the Opus Loan remaining
unpaid to the extent necessary to pay such Obligations in full in accordance with their terms, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for Opus. 
  
 d) Relative Rights. This Section 6 defines the relative rights of the Holder and Opus. Nothing
in this Debenture will: 
  
 i. impair, as between
the Company and the Holder, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal of and interest on this Debenture in accordance with its terms; or 
  
 ii. affect the relative rights of the Holder and creditors of the Company other than their rights in
relation to Opus. 
  
 e) Modification,
Renewal, Sale or Release of the Opus Loan. Opus may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Holder, without incurring responsibility to the Holder and without impairing or releasing the Obligations hereunder
of the Holder, do any one or more of the following: (a) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time or payment of, or renew or alter, the Opus Loan or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which the Opus
Loan is outstanding; (b) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing the Opus Loan; (c) release any Person in any manner for the collection of the Opus Loan; and (d) exercise or
refrain from exercising any rights against the Company or any other Person. 
  
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 g) Amendments. The provisions of this Section 6 may not be amended or
modified without the written consent of Opus. 
  
 Section 7.
Negative Covenants. So long as any portion of this Debenture is outstanding, the Company will not and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to directly or indirectly: 
  
 a) enter into, create, incur, assume, guarantee or suffer to exist any indebtedness for borrowed money of
any kind, including but not limited to, a guarantee, on or with respect to any of its property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income or profits therefrom other than the Opus Loan and the July Transaction;
provided, however, the Holder acknowledges that the Opus Loan is senior to this Debenture in right of repayment; 
  
 b) enter into, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any liens of any kind, on or with respect to any of its property or assets now
owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income or profits therefrom other than Permitted Liens; 
  
 c) amend its certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other charter documents so as to materially and adversely affect any rights of the
Holder, but in no event shall an amendment of the Company’s certificate of incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock be prohibited by the terms of this Debenture; 
  
 d) repay, repurchase or offer to repay, repurchase or
otherwise acquire more than a de minimis number of shares of its Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents other than as to the Conversion Shares to the extent permitted or required under the Transaction Documents or as otherwise permitted by
the Transaction Documents; 
  
 e) enter into any
agreement with respect to any of the foregoing; or 
  
 f) pay cash dividends or distributions on any equity securities of the Company other than as required by the Company’s Series AA Preferred Stock. 
  

Section 8. Events of Default. 
  
 a) “Event of Default”, wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason and whether it
shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court, or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body): 
  
 i. any default in the payment of (A) the principal
amount of any Debenture, or (B) interest (including Late Fees) on, or liquidated damages in respect of, any Debenture, as and when the same shall become due and payable (whether on a Conversion Date or the Maturity Date or by acceleration or
otherwise) which default, solely in the case of an interest payment or other default under clause (B) above, is not cured, within ten Trading Days; 
  

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 ii. the Company shall fail to observe or perform any other covenant or agreement
contained in this Debenture or any other Debenture (other than a breach by the Company of its obligations to deliver shares of Common Stock to the Holder upon conversion which breach is addressed in clause (xi) below) which failure is not
cured, if possible to cure, within the earlier to occur of (A) 5 Trading Days after notice of such default sent by the Holder or by any other Holder and (B)10 Trading Days after the Company shall become or should have become aware of such
failure; 
  
 iii. the Company shall fail to
execute an agreement with Union Pacific Railway Company as described in Section 5.9 of the Purchase Agreement on or before February 15, 2006, for which default there shall be no cure period beyond February 15, 2006; 
  
 iv. a default or event of default (subject to any grace or
cure period provided for in the applicable agreement, document or instrument) shall occur under (A) any of the Transaction Documents, or (B) any other material agreement, lease, document or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary
is bound; 
  
 v. any representation or warranty
made herein, in any other Transaction Documents, in any written statement pursuant hereto or thereto, or in any other report, financial statement or certificate made or delivered to the Holder or any other holder of Debentures shall be untrue or
incorrect in any material respect as of the date when made or deemed made; 
  
 vi. (i) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall commence a case, as debtor, or there shall be commenced against the Company or any such Subsidiary, a case under any applicable bankruptcy or insolvency laws as now
or hereafter in effect or any successor thereto, or the Company or any Subsidiary commences any other proceeding under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of
any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect relating to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof or (ii) there is commenced against the Company or any Subsidiary thereof any such bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding which remains
undismissed for a period of 60 days; or (iii) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof is adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction insolvent or bankrupt; or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is
entered; or (iv) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof suffers any appointment of any custodian or the like for it or any substantial part of its property which continues undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days; or (v) the Company
or any Subsidiary thereof makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (vi) the Company shall fail to pay, or shall state that it is unable to pay, or shall be unable to pay, its debts generally as they become due; or
(vii) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof shall call a meeting of its creditors with a view to arranging a composition, adjustment or restructuring of its debts; or (viii) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof shall by 

  

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any act or failure to act expressly indicate its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any of the foregoing; or (ix) any corporate or other action
is taken by the Company or any Subsidiary thereof for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; 
  
 vii. the Company or any Subsidiary shall default in any of its obligations under any mortgage, credit agreement or other facility,
indenture agreement, factoring agreement or other instrument under which there may be issued, or by which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for borrowed money or money due under any long term leasing or factoring arrangement of the
Company in an amount exceeding $150,000, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created and such default shall result in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise
become due and payable; 
  
 viii. the Company
shall be a party to any Change of Control Transaction or Fundamental Transaction, shall agree to sell or dispose of all or in excess of 33% of its assets in one or more transactions (whether or not such sale would constitute a Change of Control
Transaction) or shall redeem or repurchase more than a de minimis number of its outstanding shares of Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company (other than redemptions of Conversion Shares and repurchases of shares of Common Stock or
other equity securities of departing officers and directors of the Company; provided such repurchases shall not exceed $100,000, in the aggregate, for all officers and directors during the term of this Debenture) except that the foregoing in this
subsection (vii) shall not constitute an Event of Default if consented to by each Holder; or 
  
 ix. the Company shall fail for any reason to deliver certificates to a Holder prior to the third Trading Day after a Conversion Date
pursuant to and in accordance with Section 4(d) or the Company shall provide notice to the Holder, including by way of public announcement, at any time, of its intention not to comply with requests for conversions of any Debentures in
accordance with the terms hereof. 
  
 b)
Remedies Upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default occurs, the full principal amount of this Debenture, together with interest and other amounts owing in respect thereof, to the date of acceleration shall become, at the Holder’s
election, immediately due and payable in cash. The aggregate amount payable upon an Event of Default shall be equal to the Mandatory Default Amount. Commencing 5 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default that results in the eventual
acceleration of this Debenture, the interest rate on this Debenture shall accrue at the rate of 18% per annum, or such lower maximum amount of interest permitted to be charged under applicable law. Upon the payment in full of the Mandatory
Default Amount on this entire Debenture the Holder shall promptly surrender this Debenture to or as directed by the Company. The Holder need not provide and the Company hereby waives any presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, and
the Holder may immediately and without expiration of any grace period enforce any and all of its rights and remedies hereunder 

  

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and all other remedies available to it under applicable law. Such declaration may be rescinded and annulled by Holder at any time prior to payment hereunder
and the Holder shall have all rights as a Debenture holder until such time, if any, as the full payment under this Section shall have been received by it. No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereon. 
  
 Section 9. Miscellaneous.

  
 a) Notices. Any and all notices or
other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Holder hereunder, including, without limitation, any Notice of Conversion, shall be in writing and delivered personally, by facsimile, sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier
service, addressed to the Company, at the address set forth above, facsimile number (281) 847-1791, Attn: President, or such other address or facsimile number as the Company may specify for such purposes by notice to the Holder delivered in
accordance with this Section. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Company hereunder shall be in writing and delivered personally, by facsimile, sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service
addressed to each Holder at the facsimile telephone number or address of such Holder appearing on the books of the Company, or if no such facsimile telephone number or address appears, at the principal place of business of the Holder. Any notice or
other communication or deliveries hereunder shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile telephone number specified in this
Section prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time), (ii) the date after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile telephone number specified in this Section later than 5:30 p.m. (New York
City time) on any date and earlier than 11:59 p.m. (New York City time) on such date, (iii) the second Business Day following the date of mailing, if sent by nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (iv) upon actual receipt by
the party to whom such notice is required to be given. 
  
 b) Absolute Obligation. Except as expressly provided herein, no provision of this Debenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, interest and liquidated
damages (if any) on, this Debenture at the time, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. This Debenture is a direct debt obligation of the Company. This Debenture ranks pari passu with all other Debentures now
or hereafter issued under the terms set forth herein. 
  
 c) Lost or Mutilated Debenture. If this Debenture shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall execute and deliver, in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of a mutilated Debenture, or in lieu of or
in substitution for a lost, stolen or destroyed Debenture, a new Debenture for the principal amount of this Debenture so mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed but only upon receipt of evidence of such loss, theft or destruction of such Debenture, and
of the ownership hereof, and indemnity, if requested, all reasonably satisfactory to the Company. 
  
 d) Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Debenture shall be
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enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that
all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by any of the Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers,
shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan (the “New York Courts”). Each party hereto hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the New York Courts for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction
Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, or such New York Courts are improper or inconvenient venue for
such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with
evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Debenture and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to
limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Debenture or the transactions contemplated hereby. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Debenture, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the
other party for its attorneys fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding. 
  
 e) Waiver. Any waiver by the Company or the Holder of a breach of any provision of this Debenture shall not operate as or be
construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of this Debenture. The failure of the Company or the Holder to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Debenture on one or more occasions
shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that party of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Debenture. Any waiver must be in writing. 
  
 f) Severability. If any provision of this Debenture
is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Debenture shall remain in effect, and if any provision is inapplicable to any person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless remain applicable to all other persons and circumstances. If it
shall be found that any interest or other amount deemed interest due hereunder violates applicable laws governing usury, the applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall automatically be lowered to equal the maximum permitted rate of interest.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would
prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on this Debenture as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of
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indenture, and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefits or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it
will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impeded the execution of any power herein granted to the Holder, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such as though no such law has been enacted. 
  
 g) Next Business Day. Whenever any payment or other
obligation hereunder shall be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day. 
  
 h) Headings. The headings contained herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Debenture and shall not be
deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof. 
  
 i) Assumption. Any successor to the Company or surviving entity in a Fundamental Transaction shall (i) assume in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Debenture and the other
Transaction Documents pursuant to written agreements in form and substance satisfactory to the Holder (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) prior to such Fundamental Transaction and (ii) to issue to the Holder a new
debenture of such successor entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Debenture, including, without limitation, having a principal amount and interest rate equal to the principal amounts and the
interest rates of the Debentures held by the Holder and having similar ranking to this Debenture, and satisfactory to the Holder (any such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The provisions of this Section 9(i) shall apply
similarly and equally to successive Fundamental Transactions and shall be applied without regard to any limitations of this Debenture. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Debenture to be duly executed by a duly authorized officer as of the date first above indicated.

  

			
	NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC.
		
	By:	 	/s/    HENRY W. SULLIVAN        
	 Name:
	 	Henry W. Sullivan
	 Title:
	 	President

  

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 ANNEX A 
  
 NOTICE OF CONVERSION 
  
 The undersigned hereby elects to convert principal under the 7% Convertible Debenture of North American Technologies Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), due on December 31, 2006, into shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company according to the conditions hereof, as of the date written below. If
shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates and opinions as reasonably requested by the Company in
accordance therewith. No fee will be charged to the holder for any conversion, except for such transfer taxes, if any. 
  
 By the delivery of this Notice of Conversion the undersigned represents and warrants to the Company that its ownership of the Common Stock does not exceed
the amounts determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, specified under Section 4 of this Debenture. 
  
 The undersigned agrees to comply with the prospectus delivery requirements under the applicable securities laws in connection with any transfer of the
aforesaid shares of Common Stock. 
  
 Conversion calculations:

  

			
	Date to Effect Conversion:
	
	Principal Amount of Debenture to be Converted:
	
	$             of Interest Accrued on Account of Conversion at
             Issue.
	
	Number of shares of Common Stock to be issued:
		
	Signature:	 	 
		
	 Name:
	 	 
		
	 Address:
	 	 

  

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 Schedule 1 
  

CONVERSION SCHEDULE 
  
 The 7% Convertible Debentures due on December 31, 2006, in the aggregate principal amount of
$                         issued by North American Technologies Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation. This Conversion
Schedule reflects conversions made under Section 4 of the above referenced Debenture. 
  
 Dated: 
  

							
	 Date of Conversion
 (or for first entry,
Original Issue Date)

	  	 Amount of
Conversion

	  	 Aggregate Principal Amount
Remaining Subsequent to
Conversion
 (or original Principal Amount)

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