Clean energy found in old coal mines

Experts stunned after making unusual discovery in vast labyrinth of abandoned mine shaft: 'It's really powerful to look at all of this'

A small village in British Columbia plans to heat and cool its buildings using water from abandoned coal shafts beneath the community, reported the University of Victoria. Cumberland mined coal from 1888 until the late 1960s. The closed mines left behind a maze of flooded passageways beneath the community. The University of Victoria's Accelerating Community Energy Transformation program is working with the town to tap into this underground water…

Clean energy found in old coal mines

Cumberland, B.C. was built on coal mining—both literally and practically. Thousands of workers were employed and millions of tons of coal were exported over 80 years before the mines were shuttered, leaving deep holes in the ground and a deeper void in the village's economy.