{"id":6814,"date":"2024-02-29T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:43:59","slug":"milton-wind-farm-public-hearing-set-for-march-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/02\/29\/milton-wind-farm-public-hearing-set-for-march-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton wind farm public hearing set for March 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A public hearing is scheduled for March 12 on a proposed wind farm in Milton. (Mersey River Wind)<\/p><\/div>\n

A public hearing on a proposed wind farm development in Milton is scheduled for March 12 in council chambers at the Region of Queens offices in Liverpool.<\/span><\/p>\n

The region plans to sign a development agreement with Roswall Development Inc., the owners of <\/span>Mersey River Wind<\/span><\/a>. The company would build 33 wind turbines on about 80 hectares of Crown land near the Mersey River.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Halifax-based company is negotiating with the Nova Scotia government to lease the land. Under the municipality\u2019s land use bylaw, large-scale wind farms are not automatically allowed on the land as it\u2019s currently zoned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors voted Feb. 13 to move ahead with the agreement. As part of the process, though, a public hearing must be held before it moves further.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hearing is set for Tues. March 12 at 9 a.m., which will be before council\u2019s regular meeting. The staff report that council relied on at its Feb. 13 meeting is available here<\/a>. More information about the hearing is available on the region\u2019s website here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roswall promises<\/a> to sell power from the wind farm directly to consumers, bypassing Nova Scotia Power. It says it will offer it to large customers on the South Shore first, and then to residential customers. The company says its power rates would be lower than Nova Scotia Power’s. The project is expected to employ 100 people temporarily.<\/p>\n

Anybody can speak at the hearing. <\/span>Written submissions must be sent to the region at least two business days before March 12 to mmacleod@regionofqueens.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Copies of the supporting documents are available at the region\u2019s office at 249 White Point Road, Monday to Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A public hearing on a proposed wind farm development in Milton is scheduled for March 12 in council chambers at the Region of Queens offices in Liverpool. The region plans to sign a development agreement with Roswall Development Inc., the owners of Mersey River Wind. The company would build 33 wind turbines on about 80 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[39,279,1746,102,746,1378,24,744,741,743,1748],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-liverpool","tag-mersey-river","tag-mersey-river-wind","tag-milton","tag-nova-scotia-power","tag-public-hearing","tag-region-of-queens","tag-renewable-energy","tag-roswall-development-inc","tag-wind-farm","tag-wind-turbines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}