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Samsung deal worries Essex County green power firms; Are local projects in jeopardy?
Ontario's $7-billion energy deal with South Korea's Samsung Group could jeopardize construction of Essex County's biggest wind turbine project, which has had eight years of local planning and environmental study.
Brookfield Renewable Power wants to build close to 100 turbines in Lakeshore with a cost in excess of $400 million for the 200-megawatt project.
January 23, 2010
by Gary Rennie and Dave Hall
in The Windsor Star
Ontario's $7-billion energy deal with South Korea's Samsung Group could jeopardize construction of Essex County's biggest wind turbine project, which has had eight years of local planning and environmental study.
Brookfield Renewable Power wants to build close to 100 turbines in Lakeshore with a cost in excess of $400 million for the 200-megawatt project.
Lakeshore Mayor Tom Bain is worried that Samsung and its partners have been allocated transmission capacity on the power grid here for its future projects that companies like Brookfield were counting on.
The Samsung announcement "could have an impact (on the Lakeshore project)," Ian Kerr, senior project manager... [continue via Web link]
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