Halifax, Canada Jumps Into Geothermal

GEOTHERMAL IN HALIFAX

Halifax, with its age-old association with coal, has made a jump into geo!

The Canadian province has been making great strides towards green goals in order to reduce demand for electricity (expensive and primarily supplied by coal).

Nova Scotia received an award at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, recognizes the province for creating the first law in North America to put a hard cap on carbon emissions.

What better way to reduce demand for electric heating systems that geothermal?

From the article (click to visit thestar.com for the full article):

As if to signal a new era, an old decommissioned coal plant in Halifax harbour is being retrofitted as the company’s new headquarters. The building will be LEED certified gold. It will have a green roof with solar panels. It will also be wrapped in a super-insulated glass skin and heated and cooled with a geoexchange system that uses harbour water.