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“We’re using a highly skilled team and workforce from the oil and gas sector and redeploying those skills and that knowhow for the first time ever on a renewable energy project,” said chief executive Kirsten Marcia. “We’re not taking the stance as a clean energy company that it’s us against them.”Article content
“As a consequence, we can attract better contracts than wind or solar,” Marcia said. “Because if you’re a utility and you’re buying wind, and the wind isn’t blowing, you need something else to power your grid. With geothermal, it is always on 24/7. Once we’re up and running, it’s always producing power.”Article content
Marcia, who founded the company, trained as a geologist and worked for years in the oil and gas and mining sectors before turning her attention to renewable energy. With Saskatchewan’s geothermal potential largely hidden underground, she said the company has relied on decades of publicly available exploratory drilling data from the oil and gas industry to identify potential hotspots.
Would never happen in ucp ALberta. Gonna stick with those dinosaurs come hell or high water. When you’ve got dinosaurs running the province, it makes sense.
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