Borealis Geopower

Canoe Reach Geothermal Project

Borealis GeoPower obtained the geothermal exploration permits from the Ministry of Energy on October 17, 2010.  The Canoe Reach Geothermal Project is a notional +/- 10 MWe standard hydrothermal project, currently in the midst of exploration and assessment.  It’s development would represent the first commercial geothermal power production in the Province of British Columbia and the first, fully green, baseload power generation alternative to large scale hydro.

Borealis is also pleased to announce that the Shuswap and the Simpcw First Nations have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Borealis GeoPower on the development and construction of a geothermal power plant on the Canoe Reach property, located just south of Valemount, British Columbia. This represents an important milestone in moving the project forward and we welcome our new partners.

Borealis’s ongoing activities in the Canoe Reach area include a field work visit in September 2011 where we conducted soil and biogeochemistry sampling. Borealis hopes to move forward with the steps that lead to a final agreement with the First Nations of the area, as well as explore a tentative heat agreement with the community of Valemount. The heat agreement would entail using the cooled waste water (~70 degrees Celsius) coming from the power plant after power generation for purposes such as sustaining a community greenhouse for food growth and possible public hot springs facilities.

Below is a slide show of a few of the photos taken during the recent field work excursion.

• Photo 2: Power lines running from town to the Kinbasket Lake area on the east side of the lake
• Photo 3: The angled & significant faulting in the area
• Photo 4: Hydrothermal veining of micas and quartz
• Photo 5: Example of the steepness on the east bank of the lake and angular fractured rock
• Photo 6: Water seeping out of the rock formation along faults
• Photo 7: The beautiful access road
 
• Photo 8: Example branch of the type of trees that we sampled
• Photo 9: Access to cold water for cooling of binary turbine technology
• Photo 11: Our soil samples
• Photo 13: Bark for our biogeochemistry samples
• Photo 16: Wall of waterfalls crosscutting the steep and heavily vegetated mountain terrain of the area
• Photo 17: Shows alteration of rocks, and hydrothermal veining with steep dipping structure
• Photo 18: An example of the vegetation change observed near warm springs
• Photo 19: Quartz veining and alteration