Moose Meadows wind project hosted a public information session Tuesday in Ugpi’ganjig First Nation, or Eel River Bar.
Proponents held open house this week, while waiting to obtain a purchase agreement from N.B. Power
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There’s a proposal for a new 200-megawatt wind farm on a parcel of Crown land near Bois-Joli in northern New Brunswick. (Bert Savard/CBC)
The Moose Meadows wind project hosted a public information session Tuesday in Ugpi’ganjig First Nation, or Eel River Bar.
The project would construct between 22 and 35 wind turbines on a parcel of Crown land, about 20 kilometres southeast of Bois-Joli, and produce up to 200 megawatts of power.
The proponents are Renewable Energy Systems, a company headquartered in the U.K. with an office in Montreal, and the Northern Energy Alliance, a partnership of the Restigouche, Acadian Peninsula and Chaleur regional service commissions as well as Ugpi’ganjig and Pabineau First Nations.
They’re awaiting word from N.B. Power on whether it will approve a power-purchase agreement.
“We certainly want to turn greener in the region and help the region economically,” said Betty-Anne Fortin, CEO of the Restigouche Regional Service Commission. “It’s a new source of funding for communities and that’s very important.” (Honorine Ngountchoup/CBC)
The proponents say the wind farm would generate enough power to supply approximately 40,000 homes.
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