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LE COLLÈGE COMMUNAUTAIRE DU NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK (CCNB) SIGNS PROVINCE-WIDE TRAINING AGREEMENT

Montreal, December 17, 2009

Montréal, December 16th, 2009 – The Canadian GeoExchange Coalition (CGC) is pleased to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB). CGC applauds this first province-wide training agreement which enables all of New Brunswick’s French language colleges to offer full-semester CGC-recognised courses as part of their curriculum.

The Canadian GeoExchange Installers’ Course and Residential Designers’ Course have already been fully integrated into CCNB’s 80-week Industrial Engineering and Building Services Technology programs at the CCNB-Bathurst campus. This province-wide agreement demonstrates the francophone college network’s initiative and their motivation to establish cohesion for geoexchange training in New-Brunswick and across Canada.

“It is with great pleasure that we welcome CCNB to our growing network of training institutions” said Denis Tanguay, President and CEO of CGC. “We have always sought the participation of training institutions in transferring geoexchange knowledge to the future installers, designers, and industry stakeholders. This is an important step forward in the deployment of our Canadian geoexchange market transformation process”.

“Le Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick is very pleased to become a CGC partner and to benefit from the numerous resources and relationships that its network holds” said Yves Chouinard, President of CCNB. “CCNB vows to become a proud promoter of geoexchange to its students, staff, and to all its partners”.

CGC presently has active Memorandums of Understanding with thirteen Canadian colleges (on 22 campuses) and is currently working with over fifteen colleges who are eager to integrate geoexchange into their curriculum. Once colleges/institutes have adopted and incorporated CGC training standards into their curriculum, CGC fully recognizes the students trained by those institutions as industry-equivalent.

The Canadian GeoExchange™ Coalition acts as the industry catalyst to unite private and public sector stakeholders, and to expand the market for geoexchange™ technology in Canada. As the nexus of information, training, certification, industry standards and public awareness, our mandate is to work with stakeholders to build the necessary infrastructure to foster the growth of the Canadian geoexchange™ industry. For more information, visit www.geoexchange.ca

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For CGC inquiries:                                                         Sophie Martin (514) 807-7559, extension 23

For CCNB inquiries:                                                       Yves Chouinard (506) 789-4957

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