Finance committee  Thank you very much. Now for something a little bit different. This is our first time appearing, and I appreciate that we're all gathered here in Toronto. We're headquartered in Calgary, and we're a membership association that has about 150 corporate members and advocates. We'

Finance committee  Good morning. Thank you for the question. There are 82 countries around the world that are using geothermal heat. There are whole cities on geothermal heat in Europe. Reykjavik in Iceland is a good example. There's also Klamath Falls in Oregon, and there are places in Californi

Finance committee  Thank you. I'm a chemical engineer, not an economist, but I had to learn about the tax code probably more than most people. Specifically, classes 43.1 and 43.2, under NRCan's rules, are where they describe accelerated depreciation of accelerated capital cost allowance. Solar,

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for inviting the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association. We call ourselves CanGEA. I'll be presenting on behalf of CanGEA. I'm with my colleague Alex Kent, who is the policy manager. I'm the chair of the association. Bonjour from our membership. I'm excited to see he

Natural Resources committee  I want to maybe broaden the discussion to include Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeast B.C., and wherever we have a robust oil and gas industry. MP Barlow, we just talked about abandoned wells. Abandoned wells, or end-of-life wells, have actually been cemented. There's been

Natural Resources committee  Drake Landing is a hybrid. They collect solar energy and store it in a geothermal field. The field is very shallow. That technology is more properly described as geoexchange. The wells that they drill are really just exchanging energy between the solar energy that radiates down o

Natural Resources committee  I think this is really the crux of what makes our energy different because we have about 200 remote communities. Some of them are off-grid. Then we have the mining installations, and the mines themselves have a much bigger load than even the small communities. The small communiti

Natural Resources committee  Please, Alex.

Natural Resources committee  The best example to look at is what Paris is doing. Vancouver being on a tectonically active area, we definitely want to make sure that we are using geoscientists and that we are not overly stressing and causing seismic events, but with wells for heat you need only about 30°C. Yo

Natural Resources committee  We'll start with Canada. In the electricity industry there are currently zero megawatts of geothermal electricity. That hopefully will change very soon. There is a demonstration project planned for MP Zimmer's area and also for MP Nathan Cullen's area. There are two projects in B

Natural Resources committee  One of the things to understand is that, much like for oil and gas, the resource itself is governed by the province or territory. As much as what Enercan or the geological survey of Canada or CANMET can do, they can be supportive. We need your help to bring the provinces along at

Natural Resources committee  As much as MP Barlow was bringing forth the idea of abandoned wells, and I expanded that to mean orphaned and suspended wells, mines are.... Cumberland Energy Authority in Nova Scotia is actually Canada's premier example of repurposing an old mine. We have thousands of mines. The

Natural Resources committee  Would you like to go first?

Natural Resources committee  May I make one comment on that?

Natural Resources committee  It's the same question, really fast?