INNOVATION March-April 2019

FOR A GEOTHERMAL BREAKTHROUGH?

The Wairakei Power Station is a large geothermal station, located just north of Lake Taupo in New Zealand; it produces 181 megwatts of power. Canada is believed to have thousands of megawatts of potential geothermal energy, but there are presently no geothermal plants in the country. p hoto : n.m inton /s hutterstoCk . Com

resource development in this province. New Zealand, the Philippines, the United States, and Mexico, for example, all have commercial geothermal power plants. “That’s a bit crazy, because we are sitting on this fantastic source of heat, just below the earth’s surface”—and not just in our

“Canada is the only Ring of Fire country to not be taking advantage of geothermal power,” said Carlos Salas, P.Geo., Chief Scientific Officer of Geoscience BC, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing unbiased data to BC communities, First Nations, and government bodies on

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