Bow Lake Wind Project
Project Summary
The Bow Lake Wind Project is located predominantly on Crown land, approximately 80 km northwest of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The site is situated in the district of Algoma, close to the eastern edge of Lake Superior and south of the Montreal River, and within the territory of the Batchewana First Nation. The Project will have the capacity to generate up to 60 MW of clean renewable electricity using a total of 36 wind turbines. Each turbine will have the capacity to produce up to 1.6 MW of electricity. Work on the Project has been ongoing for 5 years, including wind resource analysis, environmental and cultural features assessments, and turbine siting. It is expected that construction may begin on the Project 2013, with Phase 1 beginning to generate electricity early in 2014, and Phase 2 by mid-2014.
The electricity generated by the Project will be sold to the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) under 20 year contracts which were awarded to the Project through the Ontario Feed-in-Tariff program
New Partnership, New Name
Bow Lake Phase 1 Wind Farm Ltd. and Bow Lake Phase 2 Wind Farm Ltd. have worked closely with the Batchewana First Nation (“BFN”) over the last several years, and are pleased to confirm that we are in the final stages of the completion of the partnership agreements that will see the BFN become economic partners in the Bow Lake Wind Farm (“Project”). As a result of this partnership, going forward the project proponents will be Nodin Kitagan Limited Partnership (for Phase 1) and Nodin Kitagan 2 Limited Partnership (for Phase 2), by their respective general partners Shongwish Nodin Kitagan GP Corp. and Shongwish Nodin Kitagan 2 GP Corp. The English name of the Project will continue to be Bow Lake Wind Farm, however the BFN know and refer to the Project as Chinodin Chigumi Nodin Kitagan.
BluEarth Renewables is also a partner in the Nodin Kitagan companies, and is leading the development of the Project on behalf of the partnerships.
Project Updates - April 2013
The Nodin Kitagan Partnerships have undertaken rigorous design and study work to prepare a complete Renewable Energy Approval (“REA”) application. Draft REA documents, including Natural and Cultural Heritage Assessment documents, are available for review on the project website, and hard copies are available at the Sault North Planning Board Office (669 Wellington Street East, Sault Ste. Marie). The Final Public Meeting is scheduled for December 13, 2012, at the Aweres School. Subsequent to that meeting, the proponent will work to update and finalize its REA application documents based on feedback from that final meeting, and to submit an REA application to the Ministry of Environment early in 2013. Should the Project be successful in receiving environmental approvals, construction could start in the summer of 2013. The Project has issued the first newsletter which is available
Further Information
For further information about the Bow Lake Wind Project, please send us an email with your questions to bowlakewind@bluearth.ca, or contact Bryan Tripp at BluEarth via telephone at (519) 821-7319.
