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Canada looks deep inside old coal mines and finds a clean energy alternative that could turn abandoned fossil fuel sites into part of the post-oil future

By District Energy posted yesterday

  

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Cumberland, British Columbia is exploring a clean energy idea that sounds almost too simple. The town wants to use water sitting in abandoned coal mines to heat buildings in winter and cool them in summer.

If Cumberland feels like a one-off experiment, it is not. Nova Scotia’s government says Springhill became an early leader in abandoned mine geothermal heating and cooling, with research and pilots dating back to the mid-1980s and systems still in use today.

In British Columbia, the province said Vancouver Island University tapped flooded Wakesiah mine workings under its Nanaimo campus through a district geo exchange system that cut heating and cooling emissions to near zero.

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