Refer-a-Neighbour
Calling All Past Participant Net-Zero Communities!
How Do Municipalities Benefit?
Powered by Communities highlights and celebrates local community energy transition initiatives taking place across the country, from coast to coast to coast.
Here we showcase local journalists’ and QUEST Canada staffs’ written storytelling skills, to deliver informative, inspirational stories, and highlight NCA participants’ energy emissions reduction initiatives.
Refer-a-Neighbour to the NCA Program
The award-winning Net-Zero Communities Accelerator program – the pilot launched in New Brunswick in February 2023 and NCA Atlantic program launched in August 2024 – leverages proven tools and services, to equip communities with the knowledge necessary to develop and continuously implement a community energy and emissions plan (CEEP).
We’ve been so warmly welcomed in New Brunswick, dating back to our Smart Energy Communities program run in 2020-23, that we’re now looking for your help – in finishing the job of putting the majority of municipalities across New Brunswick on the pathway to net-zero emissions.
As a Past Participant can you please refer us to a New Brunswick municipality you know has not participated in our NCA Program, and, is prime to begin the important development of a Community Energy Emissions Plan? – scroll down to see who has already participated.
Get Rewarded for Your Effort
- If you refer us to a contact at a New Brunswick municipality, and they set up a meeting with us to hear about the NCA Program, we’ll send you:
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- a Home Hardware Giftcard for $30.00
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- If that community ends up signing onto the NCA Program, we’ll send you:
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- a second Home Hardware Giftcard for $70.00
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- All referrers, successful or not, will be entered into a final draw on March 31, 2026 – for a chance to win:
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- a Home Hardware Giftcard for $200.00
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How to Make a Referral
Please send us your New Brunswick municipal contact information using the form below – someone whose community has yet to benefit from QUEST Canada’s NCA Program – the final Referrer draw winner will be announced March 31, 2026.
Questions?
Don’t be shy. Spread the word, and if you have any questions, contact QUEST Canada’s Senior Lead, Community Energy Planning & Projects, Shane Thomson.
Make a Referral
NB Participants in the NCA to-Date
In partnership with the l’Association francophone des municipalités du Nouveau-Brunswick: Village of New Maryland * Town of Salisbury * Town of Riverview * Town of Grand Bay- Westfield * City of Fredericton * Hanwell Rural Community * Fundy Shores * Village of Fundy-Albert * Arcadia * Rural Community of Alnwick * Carlton North * Eel River Bar First Nation * Village de Cap-Pelé * Village de Nigadoo * Communauté Rurale de Saint-André * Village de Saint-Isidore * Village de Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël * Village de Dieppe * Village de Saint-Quentin * Village de Hautes-Terres * Village de Grand Sault * Ville d’Edmundston * Florenceville-Bristol * Town of Oromocto * Village of Southern Victoria * Town of Quispamsis * Town of Saint Andrews * St. Mary’s First Nation * Municipal District of St. Stephen * Town of Woodstock * Town of Sussex *
Produced in New Brunswick with funding from:
This 2025-26 Net-Zero Communities Accelerator program regional initiative is funded by the Department of Environment and Local Government, Government of New Brunswick.
More from QUEST Canada
QUEST offers cutting edge applied research and programs to empower municipal practitioners and decision makers with the tools they need to advance their community toward net zero:
Canada’s Low-Carbon Energy Innovation Policy Database
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Indigenous-AIRE Renewable Energy Transition Toolkit
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Motivating Net-Zero Action in Rural, Remote, and Indigenous Communities
QUEST Canada’s Motivating Net-Zero Action in Rural, Remote, and Indigenous Communities (MNZA) research project explores the motivations, challenges, and energy opportunities low-density areas across Canada face as they transition to net-zero.
QUEST Canada’s Pan-Atlantic NCA Program enables Atlantic Canada communities to reach net zero by equipping them with the tools and knowledge to develop and implement community energy and emissions plans and understand the net economic benefits they can provide.