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On December 14, 2023, Alberta's Minister of Environment and Protected Areas EPA, Rebecca Schulz, announced the launch of two new pilot projects aimed at improving and expediting the well site reclamation process in the province.
“It’s entirely a voluntary process to have the power plant located on your land,” Allen explained. “All of the protections you think you may have (as a landowner), you don’t have them. So whatever you negotiate in those lease agreements is what your compensation variables are going to be.”
Geothermal energy — heat from deep below the Earth’s surface — is increasingly being sourced to provide heat and energy in the place of…
While the AER's press release on the Directive declares the geothermal regulatory scheme complete, uncertainties around issues such as royalties and public land dispositions remain.
On August 15, 2022, a key missing element of the regulatory framework for the development of commercial electricity producing geothermal facilities…