Wind Power News: British Columbia
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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted.
Who has seen the wind?
VANCOUVER -Stephen Cheeseman has cashed out 20 years of savings, left a successful career as a uranium and base metals geologist and begged his friends and family for as much money as they would invest in him. All to chase the breeze.
Mr. Cheeseman is, like dozens of others in British Columbia, a wind prospector who is making it his life’s work to grab hold of the choicest mountain ridges with the stiffest gusts before anyone …
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Conservationist opposed to wind farm
Al Springer thumbs through the material he’s pulled off the Internet and becomes more alarmed at what he learns about the wind farm proposed for Mount Kathleen near Peachland.
As he sits at the table in his dining room, he reads page after page detailing the environmental destruction wind farms have left in their wakes throughout the world.
“There’s a lot of opposition to them in a lot of places,” Springer points out.
The Okanagan needs to look …
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$5 billion power line proposed
Project might tie California, B.C., provide Avista a link
Avista Utilities is studying ways to link with and gain benefits from a $5 billion power line that a California utility has proposed to build between Northern California and British Columbia by late 2015.
The California utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., of San Francisco, says it wants to transmit renewable energy from the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, and Alberta to Northern California over the new line.
PG&E says …
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Fishermen worry grounds may be clawed from them
A wind farm project proposed for Hecate Strait could impact more than half of Area A’s crab grounds by the time it’s completed, say the British Columbia Crab Fisherman’s Association.
NaiKun Wind Development sponsored two evening public information meetings on the Queen Charlotte Islands earlier this month, the first held in Skidegate and second the following night in Massett.
Geoff Gould, Area A Crab Association executive director, attended both meetings on behalf of the British Columbia Crab …
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Wind farm will blow away crab jobs, say fishermen
Masset will lose up to 150 crab fishing and processing jobs if a wind farm company is allowed to put turbines in the shallow waters off the east coast of Graham Island, say local crab fishermen.
Around 60 fishermen and other concerned citizens filled the Masset Rec Centre auditorium Thursday night for a public meeting organized by NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc, the company which wants to build a large wind farm in Hecate Strait.
NaiKun officials …
Wind farm proposed for area near Summerland
Green renewable energy may soon be blowing into Summerland.
A wind farm project in the Mount Kathleen area 28 kilometres northwest of Summerland is being proposed by Natural Power Consultants and Fred. Olsen Renewables (Canada).
The nearly $100 million project would include up to 65 wind turbine generators, a substation, transformers and service centre and would transmit as much as 160 megawatts of energy.
Mount Kathleen was selected after testing on the site showed it had fairly sustained …
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Proposed wind farm cited as threat to caribou
Location of planned 1,000-megawatt project raises concerns about access roads through critical habitat of threatened mountain caribou
An alpine wilderness in northern B.C. that’s critical habitat to a herd of threatened mountain caribou is being proposed as the site for hundreds of industrial wind turbines.
Aeolis Wind Power Corp. based at Sidney on Vancouver Island has provided the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office with draft terms of reference for its 1,000-megawatt Hackney Hills wind farm, about 45 kilometres …
Wind farm proposed south of city
U.K.-based developer Fred.Olsen Renewables is seeking to build 50 to 75 wind turbines on the summit of Mount George, 38 km southeast of Prince George.
The proposed Mount George Wind Park could have a capacity of up to 250 megawatts, Natural Power project development manager Nicole Tuzi said. Natural Power is a contract firm hired to develop the concept.
“We’ll be submitting to B.C. Hydro’s clean energy call. [But] it’s in the very preliminary stages,” Tuzi said.
Fred.Olsen …
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Companies explore wind farm possibilities
A number of permits are being sought by companies looking to investigate potential wind energy projects in the Prince George area.
One of those companies, Natural Power Consultants, is hoping to build a wind park at Mount George near Tabor Mountain. The company’s senior development manager, Donald Speirs, spoke with The Citizen Wednesday before lecturing at UNBC about wind energy planning from an industry perspective, and about Mount George in particular.
“I would say it’s (Mount George) …
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Epcor wind plan blows into B.C.
City-owned Epcor Utilities Inc. launched a new plan Monday to spread its wings into wind power in British Columbia, atop breezy highlands 500 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
The proposed Quality Wind Project will erect 60 to 120 turbines on a windswept plateau near the mining town of Tumbler Ridge, on the eastern fringe of the Rocky Mountains, and hook them up to the B.C. electricity grid with 18 kilometres to 25 kilometres of new transmission lines.
The …
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