Ms. Margaret Buist at the Natural Resources Committee

On November 17th, 2022. See this statement in context.

November 17th, 2022 / 11:45 a.m.

Vice-President, Policy, Planning, Communications and Northern Projects Management Office, NPMO, Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

Margaret Buist

That particular project is taking place in Nunavut with the Quilliq Energy Corporation. It is a new type of energy generation potential in Nunavut. Nunavut is now 100% powered by diesel, and this is an Inuit regional corporation that is looking at the possibility of introducing geothermal in the geography in Nunavut, which is pretty much all rock, so they're looking at whether it's possible to do it. There are lots of different considerations that go into this type of project in the northern environment and—

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