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Bay of Fundy to get tidal power turbine next month
The first of two towering turbines designed by Cape Sharp Tidal to harness the immense power of the Bay of Fundy will be installed next month off the coast of Nova Scotia, an company official announced Thursday.
Sarah Dawson, the community relations manager for the project, said one of the five-storey high, two-megawatt turbines built in Pictou by Aecon Atlantic Industrial Inc., will be loaded on a barge during the first week of June and travel around the province until it reaches the test site near Parrsboro.
Cape Sharp tidal turbines almost ready to be deployed to Bay of Fundy
Video: The long awaited Cape Sharp Tidal project is now in the home stretch. The plan to harness power from the waters of the Bay of Fundy will be put to the test next month, when the first of two five-storey high turbines will be installed. Global’s Natasha Pace reports.
Aecon to build Black Rock Tidal platform
Nova Scotia renewable energy company Black Rock Tidal Power Inc. announced Wednesday that it has awarded the contract to fabricate its TRITON S40 tidal power platform for Aecon Atlantic Industrial Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aecon Group Inc. The first full-scale fabrication of this technology in the world, the instream tidal device will be installed in the Bay of Fundy in 2017.
A whole load of unknowns: Fundy fishermen call for halt of all tidal energy activity
The Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Association (BFIFA) sent out a petition to port reps and stores up and down the Bay of Fundy on May 17.
“Fishermen and community members of the Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Association want to urge our government leaders and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to halt all tidal power activity in the Bay of Fundy until such time that we have been properly informed of the costs and effects to our fishing industry, our environment, our coastal communities,” reads the petition.
DFO asks tidal developer for more environmental monitoring
The federal department, responsible for managing Canada’s fisheries and safeguarding its waters, published a Review of the Environmental Effects Monitoring Program for the Fundy Tidal Energy Project in April 2016.
Matt Lumley, communications director at FORCE says FORCE will publish a formal response to the DFO review soon.
“Right now we can say the DFO report is helpful: we don’t have all the answers yet, and DFO’s input will inform our monitoring program going forward,” he said in an email response to questions from the Digby Courier. “Tidal energy has to prove itself environmentally acceptable - we need to have a turbine in the water before we can really start to answer that question.”