Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all of our witnesses.
Madam Hickson, I'm going to come back to you.
I was looking at the submission that was made to the committee from Geothermal Canada, which is entitled “Deep Geothermal Energy in Canada”. Paragraph number 2 says, “Deployment of the various types of geothermal systems in the spectrum is dependent on [the] local geological conditions, population/industrial requirements, decarbonization targets and other factors.”
Can you explain something to us? You've talked about the spectrum, and I think you've talked about three different technologies and you've talked about some of the recent ones, but can you expand on that one?
It's very interesting. The way I read it is that we could implement geothermal depending on where it would be in the jurisdiction. Province by province, we can go and do the analysis and recommend the type of geothermal. You also highlighted here the “population/industrial requirements” and “decarbonization targets”. Can you expand on those? Why are these required?