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Canadian Geothermal Energy Association Crying Foul on Minister Bill Bennett’s Comment (Energeticcity.ca)

The Canadian Geothermal Energy Association (CanGEA) has sent an email to both Premier Christy Clark and Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett in regard to a comment made by the minister in the Globe and Mail which the association says relays “inaccurate information.”

The comment made by Minister Bennett goes to the following:

“In B.C. the market has been really slow to pick [geothermal] up… There have been a few licenses granted over the years and few million dollars invested but nobody has actually found a geothermal resource that you can convert into electricity. So we are a ways away from actually being able to use it… It is a good resource, we do want to use it… it will be important in B.C. in the future. It is not a replacement – it is not a way to get 1,100 megawatts of electricity that we need today.”

Chair and Co-Founder of CanGEA, Alison Thompson notes in her email that “Minister Bennett’s comments are simply not true,” and goes on to say he clearly had not read or been briefed on the report in question, Geothermal Energy: The Renewable and Cost Effective Alternative to Site C.

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