Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Canada:

Fort Liard Geothermal Power Project Stalls (CBC.ca)

The Northwest Territories Power Corporation and Borealis Geopower have failed to reach an agreement about a proposal to build a geothermal power plant in Fort Liard. Now Borealis says its federal grant has lapsed and the project is stalled.

Borealis GeoPower had three years to complete a power purchase agreement with the Northwest Territories Power Corporation before losing federal funding.

The company says a binding agreement was necessary to secure the remaining funding needed to construct the power plant.

The power corporation says they were not against the geothermal project, but they needed to know more about the project before signing a binding agreement.

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