Geothermal Energy in the Pacific Northwest

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Mount Baker: Viable Source For Energy?
An Oregon-based company wants to lease 10,000 acres of land near Baker Lake and build a geothermal power plant that would tap into naturally occurring underground steam created by intense heat within the 10,778-foot volcano

Potential energy in Mount Baker
January 26, 2008
by Josh Lintereur | Skagit Valley Herald

http://www.goskagit.com/index.php/news/print/5496/

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The nation’s search for new clean energy resources has an Oregon company eyeing the geothermal potential of the magma lying deep beneath Mount Baker’s snow-covered slopes.

Federal agencies are reviewing an application by the Vulcan Power Co. to lease nearly 10,000 acres of land near Baker Lake within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

The privately owned company wants to build a geothermal power plant there that would tap into naturally occurring underground steam created by intense heat within the 10,778-foot volcano.

Federal agencies have begun an environmental impact study on the proposal, which should be released sometime in spring.



The Vulcan Power Co. has a portfolio of geothermal leases and exclusive lease applications on some 130,000 acres of land throughout the West. Those properties could supply between 770 and 1,700 megawatts of electricity, or enough power for 2 million people.

http://www.vulcanpower.com/html/properties/properties.htm