Martyn Unsworth, Professor of Geophysics, and some grad students from the University of Alberta have been in the Valemount area this week, doing magnetotelluric (MT) studies of this end of the Kinbasket Reservoir for Borealis Geopower. Borealis has geothermal exploration permits for the area, and plans for a 15-20 megawatt power plant that could look like a small museum for modern art, like the Húsavík Geothermal Power Plant in Iceland.
Craig Dunn, chief geologist for Borealis, stopped by Valemount Secondary to talk about the project to the Grade 9 science class. The students knew that hydro is the biggest source of electricity in BC, but didn’t realize that coal is the biggest source in Alberta. Their guess was oil. And they agreed with Dunn that it is embarrassing that Canada is the only country on the Pacific Rim that is not creating electricity with geothermal.
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