{"id":829564,"date":"2026-07-27T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:03:16","slug":"province-seeking-more-information-before-approving-project-in-central-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829564\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Seeking More Information Before Approving Project in Central Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/confederation-building-blue-sky.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Seeking More Information Before Approving Project in Central Newfoundland\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government wants more information on the environmental effects of a large-scale energy project in central Newfoundland before giving its approval. <\/p>\n<p>The Exploits Valley Renewable Energy Corporation (EVREC) says its project will produce about 180,000 tonnes of green energy and a million tonnes of green ammonia annually. <\/p>\n<p>The wind project would consist of 534 turbines spread among four areas. <\/p>\n<p>The company is talking about a total expenditure of $14-billion over the life of the project, and the need for an average of 3,000 workers per year. <\/p>\n<p>The final product would be shipped to Europe via the port of Botwood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The provincial government wants more information on the environmental effects of a large-scale energy project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-829564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829564","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=829564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}