(Canada) Enbridge sees big wind farm running in a year - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Enbridge sees big wind farm running in a year
Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:03pm EST

By Jonathan Spicer

TORONTO (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc aims to have
Canada's second-biggest wind farm up and running in
a year, a spokeswoman for the company said on Friday,
adding that project delays have caused "significant"
cost overruns.

"We thought we would have been producing power
by the spring of 2007, but now the farm won't be
fully operational until the fall of 2008," said Debbie
Boukydis.

"There have been significant overruns," she added,
saying only that costs associated with a year-long
regulatory delay exceeded C$20 million ($20.2 million).
Before the overruns, the project's cost was seen at
C$400 million.

Last year, a group of residents near the site --
in Ontario's Bruce County on Lake Huron, northwest
of Toronto -- opposed the 182 megawatt project,
warning it would be noisy and unsightly.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2331958920071123

[greenman3610]

1. once enough of these get up and running

so that people will see (and hear) that they've
been lied to about the "noise" and esthetics,
we'll have fewer people vulnerable to this
kind of propoganda - which is being
financed by fossil fuel interests, no doubt.