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Geopower not getting love in Canada

Posted on July 17, 2008

I've got a story in today's Toronto Star about the frustration of being a Canadian-based geothermal developer forced to find and develop projects in the United States and other countries because of a lack of support for -- and general awareness of -- geothermal in Canada. There are no operating commercial geothermal power facilities in Canada, despite the fact that virtually every other country along the Pacific Rim's Ring of Fire has taken advantage of the emission-free resource. There is one, maybe up to three tops, geothermal projects underway or on the drawing board in Canada, but the fe...

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alberta , canada , canadian , geothermal , geothermal power , nuclear , toronto
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