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Oct 09, 2009GRC Geothermal Conference in Reno Last Week - Big Success!
The US Geothermal industry held its annual conference in Reno earlier this week and drew a record number of participants. With the back-drop of over $300 million in successful equity financings in geothermal in the past six months, the general sentiment was very positive on substantial growth for the sector going forward.
Alison Thompson, Chair and Executive Director of CanGEA, presented three times throughout the conference, once to a crowd of over 2000 people! She was given immediate positive feedback and CanGEA is very proud of her performance. We hope to attract more attention from the government in order to receive the go-ahead to start geothermal projects in Canada.
CanGEA hopes to gain enough funding so we can develop a Canadian Geothermal Technology Roadmap which will identify and describe in detail the complete development needs of the geothermal industry. Geothermal is an important renewable, base-load resource that should be receiving more of Canada’s attention. Once we can get Canada on the geothermal map, our greenhouse gas emissions will decrease, and our goals to combat global warming can be achieved.
