Applications to Nova Scotia Power Inc (NSPI) for request for Proposals (RFPs) were due by August 31st.
Everyone - proponents, land owners and local residents alike - are holding their breath, waiting to find out who's projects have reached NSPI's short list. This list is to be released fairly soon. The final list should be released later in the fall.
Some proponents have put in multiple applications, some have grouped multiple projects in one application.
Rumours abound as to who has applied for which projects, or if they have deferred to the next phase of RFPs.
We are told that NSPI is very sensitive to controversial proposals. It is a private company which, we are told, would prefer to avoid any conflict.
We (Gulf Shore Preservation Association) have sent letters to the Premier, the Ministers of Environment and Labour, Energy, Tourism, Municipal Relations and Economic Development and to NSPI. AWPC, CAWF, CBCL and Cumberland County Municipality have been sent copies. Included in these communications have been copies of letters of opposition from large community groups. There are over 1,100 paper petitions signed and 270 online versions. The paper petitions are in the last stages of being collated.
The opposition to this particular project is made crystal clear.
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As much as you may like to think that NSPI is an altruistic corporation that will take your complaints very seriously, you should first look at the fact that it is a publicly traded corporation. Which means that the proposals that will win, will be the ones that are most economic. This is a weighted bid and if you read how many points are being allocated to price, than a proponent could win striclty based on price.
And by the way the second most amount of points would go to experience. We're rooting for you Charles!
And you Lisa can keep on holding your breath!
With any luck, our politicians will see more quality proposals than NS Power wants to accomodate. If they see the number of well qualified organizations interesred in providing this service to Nov Scotians and the number of good sites available, maybe they will raise the bar.
20% green energy by 2013 is great, but Nova bScotia cold have 20% wind generation like Denmark. Then raise the bar again.
Energy is a problem and will become a greater problem in the future. All energy demand, incuding electric is rising. Conventional energy sources are problematic. Oil is dirty and expensive. Coal is dirtier. Gas is getting more expensive. Hydro is scarce in many places. Nuclear is questionable.
Any solution is multi faceted. No single component will solve the problem, but only by maximizing all parts of the solution can our collective problem be solved.
Wind generation is only a part of this solution, but it can be an important part. It is possible to cut electrical consumpion: Europeans use about half the Canadian average of 24 kw hours a day ( I use 12 with no hardship). Tidal power, now being researched could provide a substancial proportion of Nova Scotia's needs. Solar generation works and in the future may become economical enough to supply part of the demand, Small scale hydro, geothermal and ethanol or biomass fueled generation can also supply small but useful amounts of power. If all these techniques were utilized to their potential, King Coal could fall, but all are needed. Excluding any green source will just push out more coal smoke.
We will have to hold our breaths if we don't get rid of coal generation. No single clean power source will replace South American coal. A maximization of all green energy opportunities is the only answer. Wind power is just a part of the solution, but it is an important part.
Everyone shuld be writing the Premier and Energy Minister advocating maximization of available green energy. I did,
John McManus
caller #1 is either related to charles and or is being paid or stands to make moey from the wind industry.
caller #2 forgets that wind generation of electricity creates a health risk for those who happen to live near a "farm" and needs to be located away from residential areas.(the creatures of the forest will pay the price for our destructive stupidity as usual!)
there is a limit to where this is viable with this in mind.
If nova scotians were concerned about their childrens future they would teach them to run their lives with less electricity.
At this stage of the game all we need to do is wait and see which N.S.P. decides will be suitable projects and which wont. Like Geo.W. Bush, they are "the deciders". If the Gulf Shore project is given the OK then phase 2 of the opposition can kick into gear. Much more visible and audible than phase 1, I'm betting. We don't expect to see the G.S.P.A. lay down & cede to Mr. Demond and his co-horts. Should be a colossal, negative attention drawing, pain-in-the-ass for N.S.P.C., A.W.P.,Municipality of Cumb., and the wind farm business in general.
Promises to be quite entertaining no matter how it turns out.
I'm suprised I haven't seen any NO WINDFARM signs up anywhere on the Gulf Shore. Is it because no one wants to offend their neighbours or is it just that hardly anyone really cares one way or the other?
If N.S power has to look at, and choose from, a list of projects, it should be plain for them to see that the Gulf Shore proposal will be one that will cause them trouble. You only need to look at the Pugwash site to see that it's about as blatant a case of bad siting as one could possibly imagine. Why would they want to open that can of worms? I believe they'll opt for other, more suitable sites.
When the negative health effects from the infrasonic sound and electrical fields generated by windfarms becomes an accepted and recognized medical
"cause" the law suits and liabilities will be pointed at the developers/NSPC/municipalities/
government/etc.
It would be wiser to keep these away from residential areas and monitor their effect on the wildlife(the ol' canary in a coal mine trick)!
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