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Good presentation

Naikun presenters were

Hamish Marshall

Tony Forgarassy and

Lucy Shaw

Wind Complements Hydro – strongest in winter months etc

This Wind Atlas shows best places for wind farms

Using this Hecate superior to Mount Hays and Banks --- presumably data from Feds – I did not find but did find site where similar information available on web – good earlier technology

Choose Hecate from this page etc

The shallow depths and ‘good’ substrate – attractive

Below is the General area of farm – doesn’t look like cross hatching covers actual area chosen

HaidaLink and buried cable to mainland (Port Edward)

As cable will be capable of carrying electricity both ways—would mean QCIs could become part of main land grid

-- cable to be enclosed in concrete and ‘buried’ 6 feet deep trench across floor of Hecate

Phase 1 has smaller footprint

The number of turbines etc will depend on the Manufacturer & model chosen thus the range from 64 to 110

Said during presentation that moved farm southward from Rose Spit area to avoid crabbers main fields (and better substrate?)

This was the only available data

The darker the rectangle the more the crab caught –

But Naikun promised to try to use better data from Area A Crabbers to update this publicly available info

Jobs etc

During construction 200 some jobs – then there will be a transition during time ‘warranty’ runs when the manufacturer will be in-charge of maintenance – but then locals will have to be trained etc --- a ship (tug & barge?)  which may be stationed in Rupert was discussed too

One slide mentioned 3 projects already online in Europe

Wikipedia article on 30-turbine wind farm at Scroby Sands,

Wiki on Danish Horns Rev wind farm – 80 turbines 190MW

And Arklow Bank Wind Park 7 turbines 21MW

Lots of links

A recent Danish study presumably this one found no harm to crabs

ENS report of Danish wind farm study – finds fish, birds unharmed –

Here is text from QCI Observer article questioning NaiKun effect on crab fishery dated January 2007

See Wind Farm news for Canada Here