Drilling and site preparation involves
small land disturbances, in fact several wells can be drilled from one 100 ft x 300 ft pad and the plant is only one - story high A large area below the surface is needed and EGS uses lower impact methods to develop and manage the underground reservoir.
For species like woodland caribou, a viable landscape must contain 65 per cent undisturbed
land, and even something as
small as a pipeline right - of - way creates a 500m effective
disturbance in the landscape.