Cleantech 10™ list pinpoints the top publicly traded Cleantech companies in Canada
Next 10 Cleantech list highlights emerging Cleantech leaders of tomorrow

TORONTO, October 23, 2009 – Today, the CEOs of the companies on Corporate Knights’ third-annual Cleantech 10™ list and Next 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders opened the Toronto Stock Exchange. The TSX now has, by its count, the largest number of listed cleantech companies in the world at 122. Corporate Knights has been following cleantech companies since 2007 and highlighting the best investment prospects. The Cleantech 10™ and Next 10 represent Canada’s best publicly and privately held companies in the Cleantech realm, and span a range of sectors from global positioning systems to smart grids to solar technology.

This year’s Cleantech 10™ outperformed the S&P/TSX Composite by 38 per cent this year (using an unweighted average of the 2009 Cleantech 10™’s returns for the past YTD as of October 21). “Canada is first in the world in the number of cleantech stocks we can invest in at home, and the Cleantech 10™ are the best of the crop,” says Toby A. A. Heaps, editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights. “The Cleantech Next Ten exemplify a fusion of Canadian inventiveness and enterprise aimed at the bulls-eye of the emerging green economy.”

The Corporate Knights Cleantech 10™ was compiled by Corporate Knights Inc. and Cleantech Group LLC, the leading provider of Cleantech indices and information globally.

Cleantech 10™ 2009
1. Westport Innovations (Vancouver, BC)
2. RuggedCom (Woodbridge, ON)
3. WaterFurnace Renewable Energy (Fort Wayne, IN)
4. Magma Energy Corp. (Vancouver, BC)
5. 5N Plus (Montreal, QC)
6. Canadian Hydro Developers** (Calgary, AB)
7. Carmanah Technologies Corp. (Victoria, BC)
8. NEO Material Technologies (Toronto, ON)
9. Stantec (Edmonton, AB)
10. Hemisphere GPS (Calgary, AB)
Source: Corporate Knights Inc. and Cleantech Group LLC