SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN. - December 4, 2008 - PotashCorp continues to receive the respect of the corporate reporting community in Canada, with three awards of excellence in the 2008 CICA Corporate Reporting Awards from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

The three top-tier awards were:

• The Award of Excellence in the Mining Category for its 2007 Annual Report, placing first in the category,

• The Award of Excellence in Electronic Disclosure, placing first among all categories,

• The Award of Excellence in Sustainability Reporting, placing first among all categories.

PotashCorp received the Award of Excellence for its Annual Report in 2007 and was given honourable mentions for electronic disclosure and sustainability reporting. The awards reflect PotashCorp's continuing commitment to excellence in corporate reporting, as the company previously won the CICA's Overall Award of Excellence for an unprecedented three consecutive years from 2004-2006.

"Year in and year out, PotashCorp demonstrates a consistent ability to maintain high standards of financial reporting and corporate communications," said CICA's President and CEO Kevin Dancey, FCA. "The company's success with this award program is impressive. It clearly demonstrates the value the company places on corporate reporting. Congratulations on another impressive showing."

The CICA Corporate Reporting Awards are open to the top 50 companies per industry sector listed on the TSX as of March 31, 2008 with a market cap of over $200 million and incorporated in Canada. The judging groups include the CICA, the Toronto CFA Society, Canadian Investor Relations Institute and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

PotashCorp

PotashCorp

PotashCorp is the world's largest fertilizer enterprise producing the three primary plant nutrients and a leading supplier to three distinct market categories: agriculture, with the largest capacity in the world in potash, third largest in phosphate and fourth largest in nitrogen; animal nutrition, with the world's largest capacity in phosphate feed ingredients; and industrial chemicals, as the largest global producer of industrial nitrogen products and one of only three North American suppliers of industrial phosphates.

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