Wind Power News: Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia Power, ACCIONA Energy announce windfarm project on the Amherst marsh
Energy is everywhere, and by this time next year construction of a windfarm project on the Amherst marsh should be commencing.
Nova Scotia Power and ACCIONA Energy teamed up Thursday morning to announce a 20, 1.5 MW turbine windfarm project near Exit 3 on the Trans-Canada Highway.
“This is a great location for an announcement like this. We are so close to the project site. Often project sites tend to be so far away, we’re lucky …
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Canso wind farm closer to reality
Canso’s proposed five-turbine wind farm is one step closer to becoming a reality now that council has agreed to make a compromise.
Members agreed at the special meeting on April 21, which finalized the rezoning process of one of the windmills proposed for the town’s Spinny Hill area project, to allow a 500-metre buffer between the windmills and residential property, school or medical facility, instead of the 600-metre buffer they were looking for.
Since the Ontario-based company …
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Wind turbine bylaw to be developed
The environmental consultants 4Site Group, which has offices in Halifax and Yarmouth, has been awarded a contract to develop a wind turbine bylaw for the Municipality of Digby.
The bylaw will deal with issues regarding the placement of turbines, and will define acceptable location, minimum distance between windmills and buildings, and the minimum acceptable setback from the road.
While wind turbines are a source of ‘clean’ energy, people living nearby sometimes object to noise created by …
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Sell the farm
Atlantic Canada’s largest wind farm will soon be controlled by an American power giant.
Creststreet Power and Income Fund LP announced Friday it had signed a deal to sell Pubnico Point Wind Farm in Yarmouth County and its Mount Copper Wind Power project in Quebec to an affiliate of FPL Energy of Florida for $121.6 million.
FPL Energy is the power generation arm of FPL Group, a publicly traded energy company with US$16 billion in assets. It …
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No word on wind power; Cumberland on deck for announcement?
There’s still no timeframe for when Nova Scotia Power will be announcing future wind projects in Cumberland County.
Corporation spokesperson Margaret Murphy said Nova Scotia Power is committed to adding 240 megawatts of wind energy and that additional contracts will be announced when they are signed.
“We expect that we will be announcing more wind power agreements very soon and we’re continuing to work toward that,” said Murphy, adding that it would only be speculative to say …
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Residents demand say on wind project
TRURO — Residents concerned with the prospect of 72 wind turbines being built in the Higgins Mountain area had a voice at Colchester County Council’s committee meeting Thursday night to plead their case.
The Folly Lake/Wentworth Valley Preservation Society is a group which has “spent thousands of hours learning the good, the bad and the ugly of wind power,” said Peter Bigelow, the group’s representative at the committee meeting.
“We’re willing to work to see wind power …
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Another windfarm blowing into Pictou County
On a morning where wind gusts reached 34 km/h, Halifax-based company Shear Wind Inc. announced plans to build the largest Nova Scotia wind turbine park to date near Merigomish.
Glen Dhu wind park will be located on 2,420 hectares of privately owned land on Browns Mountain, off Baileys Brook Road. The 30-turbine project will generate 60 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 17,500 homes.
Construction is expected to begin in 2008, to be complete in 2009.
“Today marks …
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Big wind farm unveiled today
$150-million power project near Merigomish will be province’s largest, with 30 turbines
Halifax wind power company Shear Wind Inc. is poised to build a $150-million wind turbine park east of New Glasgow.
The 30-turbine project on 2,420 hectares near Merigomish would be the largest in the province and would generate 60 megawatts of electricity to sell to Nova Scotia Power, a subsidiary of energy giant Emera Inc.
Details of the project, which would produce enough electricity to power …
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Energy project raises alarms
We’ve had a couple of calm weeks after initial gusts of blustery rhetoric over a wind energy project proposed for the southern extremity of Cape Breton County. The debate will pick up again, perhaps more in a spirit of consultation than confrontation.
On paper the plan by Cape Breton Explorations Ltd. to combine a wind farm with pumped water storage has an elegant appeal for those with a taste for engineering. Up to 44 wind turbines …
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Wind farm needs a bit more breeze
Atlantic Canada’s largest wind farm could use a little more fuel, say the owners of the Pubnico Point Wind farm in Yarmouth County.
Electrical production from the turbines was down along with wind volumes in 2007, said Derren Newell, chief financial officer for Creststreet Power and Income Fund LP, which is trying to sell the wind turbine farm.
Creststreet Power and Income of Toronto, a majority owner of the $50-million wind farm, released results showing wind production …
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