The Setapuktuk Wind Project received its environmental assessment approval today, November 24.<\/p>\n
Owned by EverWind NS Holdings Ltd. in partnership with Membertou Development Corp., it will be located in the Municipality of the District of Guysborough.<\/p>\n
The project will generate 432 megawatts (MW) of clean electricity from 54 eight-MW turbines, with the clean electricity used by EverWind to power its green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Point Tupper, Richmond County.<\/p>\n
Using wind energy will prevent 730,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year.<\/p>\n
Once construction begins in late 2026, the project is expected to:<\/p>\n
create 350 to 400 jobs over the two-year construction period and 20 to 35 full-time jobs once operational
\ngenerate about $3.74 million in annual municipal tax revenue for the Municipality of the District of Guysborough.<\/p>\n
The project must comply with 58 terms and conditions designed to protect the environment and human health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Setapuktuk Wind Project received its environmental assessment approval today, November 24. Owned by EverWind NS Holdings Ltd.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-304910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}