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CALGARY, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) Harvest energy ("Harvest") (TSX: HTE.UN) (NYSE: HTE) today announces the release of its third quarter 2008 financial and operating results. The unaudited financial statements, notes and MD&A pertaining to the period ended September 30, 2008 are filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and are available on Harvest's website at www.harvestenergy.ca. All figures reported herein are Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated.

Independent appraisers hired by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System say the market value of the fund’s real estate is $6.1 billion at June of this year, down 35 percent from its original cost of $9.3 billion.

YTB International Inc. is selling an Edwardsville, Ill., office building, including the equipment, for $1.5 million to Prestige management Services, according to a regulatory filing.

Forest Oil Corp. said Wednesday it still plans to sell a group of properties in the Rocky Mountains, but for $58 million less than it had expected. (FST)

Norwegian state-owned electricity company Statkraft has decided to purchase all the remaining shares in Catamount Cymru Cyf, the company which owns the rights to build and operate the Blaengwen wind farm in Wales.

German chemicals major BASF and Russian gas giant Gazprom have officially launched natural gas production at their ZAO Achimgaz joint venture in Siberia, Russia, which produces natural gas and condensate from the Achimov formation in the Urengoy deposit.

Methane supplied by Swedish company FordonsGas Sverige has been conferred the Nordic Ecolabel certification after meeting the prerequisite criteria for selection.

Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. announced the official opening of the Melancthon EcoPower Centre. The 199.5-megawatt (MW) project is the largest wind energy installation in Canada. The Melancthon EcoPower Centre is 100% owned and operated by Canadian Hydro.

Ocean Power Technologies Inc. announced that it has installed one of its PowerBuoy wave power generation units near Kaneohe Bay on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. This is the third PowerBuoy to be deployed by OPT over the past two months at sites in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Vital Renewable energy Company (VREC), a new Brazilian company, announced that it has secured funding from private investors in the United States, europe and the Middle East. The company said that is ready to launch renewable energy projects in Brazil, focused mainly on ethanol and electricity generation.