Environment department will decide if projects get conditional approval next month
Paul Withers · CBC News · Posted: Jan 10, 2023 6:00 AM AST | Last Updated: January 10, 2023
Halifax-based Natural Forces Developments will find out next month if it gets conditional environmental approval for two wind farms it wants to build in Nova Scotia.
Last August, the independent power company — in partnership with the province’s 13 Mi’kmaw communities — was one of the winning applicants in the province’s largest ever program to buy electricity generated by wind.
Its proposal for a wind farm at Benjamins Mill, about 13 kilometres outside of Windsor, N.S., was selected by an independent administrator overseeing the competition. The site would generate up to 150 megawatts of electricity.
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Wskijnu’k Mtmo’taqnuow Agency Ltd., a corporate body owned by the province’s 13 Mi’kmaw communities, is Natural Forces’ partner.
WMA’s president, Crystal Nicholas, says the goal is to have a power purchase agreement for the Benjamins Mill project this year.
“This is a win-win by providing green energy to Nova Scotia, at a competitive price, while also bringing economic and other benefits to all 13 Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia. We look forward to seeing this project through,” Nicholas told CBC News in an emailed statement.