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Aidan Mackenzie
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🚨🚨 This might be a huge win for geothermal permitting reform! 🚨🚨 The Bureau of Land Management is proposing a brand new categorical exclusion for geothermal exploration wells. This could be the real deal and something we
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Aidan Mackenzie
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Geothermal is especially harmed by the NEPA process because: - Most of the best geothermal resources are located on federal lands - Geothermal projects have to conduct multiple NEPA reviews to explore and develop resources, adding major uncertainty. (2/7)
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Aidan Mackenzie
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The change is a huge deal because it would cover drilling activities for exploration activities. The main goal of geothermal permitting is to turn step #4 on the chart below into a Catex and this change seems like it would do that! (3/7)
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Aidan Mackenzie
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The key is to turn stage #4 on this chart from an environmental assessment into a categorical exclusion. Early surveys can often get given CEs anyways under stage #3 so adopting a new new text for them is less useful than they seem.
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Aidan Mackenzie
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The proposed changes would create a categorical exclusion for activities that use less than 20 acres which is very generous. The Catex would cover core drilling, temperature gradient wells, and resource wells (although limited to exploration purposes). (4/8)
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Aidan Mackenzie
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Streamlining exploration is vital for de-risking complex next-gen geothermal projects. Geothermal is highly capital intensive, making the delays and uncertainty caused by permitting extra painful. (5/8)
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Aidan Mackenzie
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This proposal is much bigger than the changes BLM made earlier this year. This time BLM is proposing to create an entirely new Catex tailored to covering exploration drilling activities. (6/8)
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Aidan Mackenzie
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While a big win, it's important that @BLMNational doesn't view this CE as "mission accomplished". The new categorical exclusions adoption is helpful but might not cover the most thorough forms of geothermal exploration. We should do a lot more: 🧵 x.com/AidanRMackenzi
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Aidan Mackenzie
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The press release sounds absolutely fantastic but it is important to wait and see the text on the federal register. The details of these exclusions matter a great deal. Defining “resource wells” and the details of which drilling activities are allowed will be crucial. (7/8)
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Aidan Mackenzie
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BLM needs to include language for next-gen approaches. E.g. EGS aims to measure a resource, directly test it and, once it has been confirmed, develop the well into a production well. BLM’s needs to make sure their covers direct resource stimulation and full sized wells (8/8)
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