Sure. Again, there's that analogy...geothermal anywhere...3,000 metres or three kilometres down will be at 100°C. But like oil and gas, oil and gas is more plentiful in some areas and geothermal is more plentiful in other areas. In this particular location in Valemount, it's a triple point of three mountain ranges, and very active for geothermal, so you're probably going to have to drill wells that are well less than three kilometres. Valemount is on the end of a long radial line, a 300-kilometre line, of BC Hydro. Even though it's grid-connected, it's very unstable, and having another form of baseload power.... We're not like wind and solar. We actually produce all the time. We're more like a dam. But what MP Zimmer didn't mention is that Valemount itself is not on a natural gas line. It trucks in propane from Alberta. In that way it's off-grid for heat. With the ability to have a baseload power to back up a BC Hydro transmission system and to avoid having to bring in propane, and then all the extra emissions with just the transportation, you really get two birds with one stone, and, of course, increase the vibrancy of the community with whatever they do with the heat. In this case it might be food; it might be for resorts that may be going into the area. It's an enabler. Geothermal energy is an enabler, which is why the countries that are using it really use it in the merit order. They use geothermal energy first, then hydro dams, and then things like wind and solar and natural gas peaking. On the merit order, it's usually sought after and it's a primary form of energy.
On April 4th, 2017. See this statement in context.