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Con Mine mine-based heating project in the Yukon not feasible

Con Mine mine-based heating project in the Yukon not feasible Yellowknife, NWT/ Canada, Con Mine is the tower in the back (source: flickr/buck82, creative commons)
Francisco Rojas 11 Nov 2014

The Con Mine geothermal heating project in Yukon was deemed not feasible approximately a year after residents voted against the project for being too costly.

Bad news emerge from the Con Mine geothermal heating project since it is being discarded after residents voted against investing in it.

The local news source states that “the city’s “Geothermal Project” was deemed not feasible approximately a year after residents voted against spending up to $49 billion toward the project in March 2011. The project was rejected by a vote of 1,362 to 997 despite a high show of enthusiasm from city council, environmental groups and Yellowknife MLAs.”

The project goes back to 2007 where some initial estimates saw potential to develop geothermal district heating in the Con Mine, where “reported temperature findings in mine shafts underground of around 40 C”

The ex-mayor of Yellowknife in 2012 now states according to the local news that “The project in its initial concept was good, what happened as it developed it created questions and ultimately shelved the project. It was probably not so much the project itself, but the funding opportunities related to the problem and then the restrictions that were placed on them.”

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Source: Northern News Service Online