Hydro One Receives OEB Approval to Build Transmission Line from Kincardine to Milton
October 7, 2008
TORONTO, Sept. 16 – The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has approved Hydro One’s Leave to Construct application for the Bruce to Milton Transmission Reinforcement Project with conditions.
The project involves the construction a 180-kilometre, double-circuit 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line on a widened existing corridor between the Bruce Power Facility in Kincardine and Hydro One’s switching station in Milton. The line will transfer more than 3,000 megawatts of clean and renewable power from the Bruce area to southern Ontario. This project represents the largest expansion to Ontario’s transmission system in 20 years. In its decision, the OEB found the project to be in the public interest in regard to its impact on price, reliability and quality of electricity service to consumers.
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Government of Canada announces interim license for new hydroelectric power station on Trent-Severn Waterway
April 2, 2008
PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, March 21, 2008–On behalf of Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird, Member of Parliament for Peterborough Dean Del Mastro is pleased to announce that the Government will issue an interim license to the Trent Rapids Power Corporation to begin construction of a new eight-megawatt hydroelectric power generating station along the Trent-Severn Waterway.
“After significant consultation with our community, and residents all along the Trent-Severn Waterway, I am pleased to announce this interim license for the Trent Rapids Power Corporation,” said Mr. Del Mastro. “This project strikes the right balance between our economy and environment. It will contribute to the generation of green energy while still keeping with the historic uses of this important cultural corridor which has supported hydropower for the past 99 years.”
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Ojibway Power and Energy Group partnership with Gemini Power Corp.
March 10, 2008
On November 8, 2007 the final agreements were executed with Gemini Power Corp. to establish Gemini Power Corp. as an equity partner on the Namakan River Hydro Development Project. A ceremony was conducted on November 11th in the Lac La Croix Community roundhouse to bring life to the agreements.
Cultural Advisor and Elder, Kalvin Ottertail conducted the spiritual ceremony on behalf of the Council and Chief Leon Jourdain, that formally established the High Falls Development Partnership.
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Hydro project crucial for band’s future: Chief
February 27, 2008
By Duane Hicks
FORT FRANCES—The Namakan River hydro development project being proposed by the Ojibway Power and Energy Group(OPEG) will be vital to Lac La Croix First Nation in the future, Chief Leon Jourdain said during an open house here last Thursday night.
Dozens of people came out for the session at La Place Rendez-Vous, including many residents of Lac La Croix First Nation, whichwill benefit greatly from the project, which proposes “run-of-river” hydroelectric facilities on the Namakan River at High Falls andHay Rapids (and at Myrtle Falls further down the road).
“Our community is no different from any other reservation in Treaty 3 or in Canada,” Chief Jourdain said in a speech at Thursday’s open house. “We are asserting, and will continue to assert, our place in the economic world.
“For far too long our people have been denied our place in the economy,” he charged. “We’ve always watched as our resources disappeared in front of us without any economic gain for our people.
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Speech by President Michael Dan
November 22, 2007
…to the Lac Lacroix First Nation Community at the Lac La Croix First Nation Roundhouse November 22, 2007
The world around us is changing in ways that most non-aboriginal people cannot easily grasp. The reason for this is that the western view of the world prevents westerners from seeing the full extent of the problems that we have created. Quite simply put, the industrial revolution that began around 1830, and which was based on the fantasy that there would always be an endless supply of coal, oil, and natural gas, is itself ‘running out of gas’. Take, for example, the case of the United States.
There was once a time when the US was the world’s number one oil producer. Yet today, in spite of all the sophisticated technology that is available to it, oil production in the lower 48 States has never been higher than it was in 1970. So we now have a situation where instead of being a net exporter of oil, the U.S. imports 67% of its oil—and most people don’t know this—the number one exporter of oil to the US is not Saudi Arabia, but Canada. In fact, Canada exports half of the oil and natural gas it produces to our friends to the south, and even more ironically, Canada now uses a significant amount of its own natural gas to make oil to sell to Americans. I am referring here to the tar sands in Alberta, which are an ecological disaster in every possible way.
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