For years, members of Glooscap First Nation identified clean energy as one of the community’s top priorities; this summer, the community is taking a major.
Developers of a large wind farm proposed for southern Nova Scotia say construction will begin next spring now that the company has secured Crown land near Milton in Queens County.
Nova Scotia's environment minister has approved two proposed wind farms that would see 28 turbines erected in West Hants and another 12 in Cumberland County.
The five projects are expected to generate 372 megawatts or 1,373 gigawatt hours per year of electricity approximately 12 per cent of Nova Scotia's total energy consumption, the province's procurement administrator said in a news release Wednesday.