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    Wind Power News: New Brunswick

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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.


    April 22, 2008 • New Brunswick

    Proximity of wind turbines is a concern for some residents in Pokeshaw/Grand-Anse

    Info meeting held about proposed wind farm project
    If there is one thing that is a sure crop in Pokeshaw, it is wind. In this era of green energy, that fact is not lost on the wind farm industry. E.ON Climate & Renewables, a wind farm developer based in Ontario, has made an application to NB Power to put in 66 wind turbines in the Pokeshaw and Grande-Anse area.
    The turbines would be located between one and …

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    April 9, 2008 • New Brunswick

    Albert Co. wind farm to be built this summer

    The hills of Albert County are expected to be busy with activity later this year as the first of five wind farms planned for New Brunswick is constructed near Caledonia Mountain.
    The 96 megawatt Kent Hills wind farm will be located near Caledonia Mountain, southwest of Moncton. It will have 32 wind turbines and provide 280,000 megawatt hours of power per year, roughly enough to meet the electricity needs of 17,300 homes.
    Energy Minister Jack Keir and …

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    March 24, 2008 • New Brunswick

    N.B. eyes more wind farms

    Yves Gagnon hopes to see the development of community-based wind power projects that will provide both a sustainable source of energy and economically benefit New Brunswickers.
    Gagnon, the K.C. Irving Chair in Sustainable Development at l’Unversité de Moncton, said the government’s recent launch of a community wind energy initiative shows they recognize the importance of this potential source of energy.
    “What the government is realizing in various communities is that we could have more economic impact from …

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    February 26, 2008 • New Brunswick

    Wind project unveiled today

    Premier Shawn Graham and Energy Minister Jack Keir will announce a wind energy west of Bathurst today.
    Besides the event in Bathurst, Keir will make another announcement in Caraquet to do with renewable energy. Municipal leaders and others will attend the Caraquet event, but the minister’s staff offered no further details on Monday.
    On the Bathurst announcement, Canadaeast News Service has learned that the province has entered into an agreement with a private company that will build …

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    January 29, 2008 • New Brunswick, Nova Scotia

    Aulac chosen for wind farm

    AULAC, N.B. — The Tantramar Marsh between Amherst and Sackville may become a busy spot for wind energy.
    With two wind farms proposed on the Nova Scotia side of the marsh, Acciona Energy announced Monday it has been selected by the New Brunswick government to construct a 64.5-megawatt wind farm in Aulac.
    The Aulac wind farm is expected to be in service by November 2009 and will include 43 turbines that will provide 177,870 megawatt hours of …

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    January 24, 2008 • New Brunswick

    Wind-power project allegations have Tories crying for inquiry

    The Opposition Conservatives are calling for a public inquiry to examine whether Premier Shawn Graham or any senior government official exerted political influence over NB Power to approve a wind-power project.
    The controversy erupted when court documents surfaced with Toronto-based SkyPower Corp. and Miramichi-based Atcon Construction. The documents claim senior government officials assured them they would receive a wind-power contract, which would include a tower manufacturing plant creating 200 jobs.
    “Let’s have a public inquiry and then …

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    January 23, 2008 • New Brunswick

    Government accused of pressuring NB Power to sidestep tender process

    NB Power’s president denies the Liberal government pressured him to short-circuit the public tendering process by awarding a $1.4-billion wind-power project that had already been turned down by the utility.
    On a day when NB Power and the Liberal government were announcing a new 49.5-megawatt wind-power project for Lameque, David Hay and Premier Shawn Graham were sideswiped by court documents.
    They were filed by Toronto-based SkyPower Corp. and Miramichi-based Atcon Construction with the Court of Queen’s Bench …

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    January 22, 2008 • New Brunswick

    New Brunswick government announces wind farm on Lameque Island

    The New Brunswick government has announced plans for a wind farm on Lameque Island in the province’s northeast.
    NB Power will sign a 25-year power purchase agreement for up to 49.5 megawatts of wind power with Acciona Wind Energy Canada. Acciona will construct, own, and operate the Lameque wind farm which will produce enough power to meet the electricity needs of about 8,900 homes.
    The announcement is the first in a series of contracts that will see …

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    Cross-border corridor supports Maine-Canada energy alliance

    A new, 145-mile electrical transmission line linking the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant in New Brunswick and a Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. substation in Orrington could help spark expansion of the cross-border energy partnership between Maine and Atlantic Canada.
    “Without this new line, discussion of any new cross-border energy partnership would not be possible,” Kurt Adams, chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC), told The Ellsworth American.
    New Brunswick Power and Canadian-owned Bangor Hydro recently threw the …

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    November 15, 2007 • New Brunswick, Nova Scotia

    Halifax firm breezes into N.B.; Shear Wind proposing major project for provincial neighbour

    A Halifax wind energy company is eyeing a site in northeast New Brunswick for a $350-million wind farm.
    Ian Tillard, chief operating officer with Shear Wind Inc., said Wednesday the company has signed a wind exploration permit for a 6,000-hectare site at Mann Siding, near Edmundston, that could become home to about 75 turbines.
    “We are in the initial stages of feasibility and development of a new site,” he said.
    “This is our first foray into New Brunswick …

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