GEOTHERMAL

Vancouver Airport digs deep

Nancy Argyle provides GDI with an insight into how sonic drilling is helping Vancouver International Airport, in British Columbia, Canada, become the world’s first ‘green’ airport as it adopts geothermal energy.

 A sonic drill rig supplied by Sonic Drill Corp being used to install a geo-loop

A sonic drill rig supplied by Sonic Drill Corp being used to install a geo-loop

At four times the size of Great Britain, British Columbia (BC) is Canada's most westerly province, hugging the Pacific Ocean on one side and nestled up to Alberta prairie lands on the other. Within its...

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