Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I heard a good expression on the radio this morning. They used to say that government should be leaner and meaner. Now they’re saying leaner and greener. I think that’s a great phrase: leaner and greener. I appreciate the initiatives that have been announced and undertaken by this government to look at alternate sources of energy. We heard about the biomass, about the pellet boilers. We’ve heard about electric heat from the hydro surplus in Fort Smith. I have been contacting the Minister and will be asking him again today, what has the government done to examine the potential for geothermal heat in the Northwest Territories. I have a constituent who is a third generation business owner in Hay River that would very much like to get involved in the installation of geothermal heat technology and equipment and so on in Hay River, but in order to do that he needs a building, a public building that he can use as a prototype. There are very large sums of federal money available for such a conversion and I would like to ask the Minister of ENR what work has been done on geothermal.
Jane Groenewegen on Question 322-16(3): Potential For Production Of Geothermal Energy
In the Legislative Assembly on March 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 322-16(3): Potential For Production Of Geothermal Energy
Oral Questions
March 11th, 2009
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