I receive a confidential information about the Muskrat falls project; This major information will have serious impact on the cost of electricity and also a huge impact on the Strait of Belle Isle, the gulf and the St-Lawrence river. Facing that information there is also a need for a new environmental evaluation. (Chronicle Herald) A federal loan guarantee for the Maritime Link requires the province to promise it wont try to change the multibillion-dollar project after the regulator has approved it. Seems it change... Thank you for your concern. Objet : Strait of Belle Isle (détroit entre Terre-Neuve et Bass-côte-Nord/Labrador) Nalcor Energy is in the process of developing the Lower Churchill river for hydro power. They plan to bring the power to Newfoundland by trenching the transmission lines across the Strait of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland. For protection of the transmission lines from iceberg scour, they plan on building three massive berms to deflect the icebergs before reaching the position of the transmission lines. That is a huge problem and irresponsible because it will change the current flow in the Strait of Belle Isle and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The circulation in the Gulf is controlled by the inflow through the Strait of Belle Isle and by the flow from the St. Lawrence River. The majority of the Gulf water exits through Cabot Strait. Interference with the inflow of the Labrador Current water through the Strait of Belle Isle could affect the circulation in the whole Gulf of St. Lawrence. It will certainly disrupt the fishery in the Straits and on the Quebec Lower North Shore. It may also interfere with the salmon run to the Quebec rivers and those in the Atlantic provinces. I do not know the size of the 3 berms because it is a highly confidential project. The berms would have to be enormous to deflect an iceberg. The contract to partially fill in the Strait of Belle Isle has been awarded by Nalcor Energy to Tideway Offshore Contractors in The Netherlands. The project is presently in the engineering planning phase. The plan is to construct a large wharf in Forteau, Labrador where local rock is to be crushed and loaded on a large barge being brought over from The Netherlands. The local crushed rock is to be dumped into the Straits on the Labrador side. [redacted] company was contracted to measure the waves near the wharf construction site in Forteau for the engineering wharf design. The purpose of the wharf was discovered accidentally. The project must be stopped. Canada no longer has an Environmental Protection Agency and habitat management within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has been disbanded. The environmental regulators are no longer in place. The Environmental Assessment for the Lower Churchill Project did not include this component of the project.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:39:15 +0000
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