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Mar 12, 2009Toronto Star: “Canada’s ground temperatures rising, study finds”
An article from Toronto Star columnist & energy reporter Tyler Hamilton. CanGEA Executive Director and Chairman Alison Thompson is featured in the article. CanGEA encourages readers to check out Tyler Hamilton’s energy blog as well.
The study, recently published online in the journal Natural Resource Research, assessed ground temperatures across Canada down to 250 metres to get a sense of the potential resource. The researchers found that the heat energy in the first 50 metres alone was roughly equivalent to the commercially recoverable energy in the oil sands.
Alison Thompson, executive director of the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association, said the geological survey studies are welcome and long overdue, but the analysis is based on ground temperature data collected prior to 1985, which is when funding for the federal geothermal energy program was pulled.
Thompson said new data must be collected to get an accurate estimate and to raise the profile of geothermal energy, which despite its massive potential is largely overlooked in Canada as a renewable source of electricity generation.
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