Manitoba Wildlands: Manitoba Bipole III Review Flawed
(firmenpresse) - WINNIPEG, MANITOBA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/27/12 -- Attention business, energy, and environmental editors:
Manitoba Wildlands filed review comments about Manitoba Hydro's environmental statement for the contentious Bipole III transmission project. The proposed corridor will house a 500 kv high-voltage direct current system, to move power from northern dams to a converter station southeast of Winnipeg.
Controversy has dogged the project since the Manitoba government instructed the publicly owned utility to build the 1400 kilometer transmission project on the west side of the province, keeping it out of the largely intact east side of Manitoba. Independent studies for valuation of the boreal forests regions on both sides of Manitoba are not forthcoming. The public continues to question whether the transmission line is being built for energy security and reliability, or for export energy to the United States by servicing future dams in northern Manitoba.
Now the project is dogged by problems, notably failure to start Aboriginal and First Nations consultations, lack of data from actual fieldwork along the intended corridor, and a need to solve deficiencies in the first filing. Forty Aboriginal communities are affected by the preferred corridor location.
Concerns about large mammals, especially woodland caribou, elk, and moose arise from the utility's first licensing filing. Seven woodland caribou herds are located in the study area, with greater risks for four herds. Due to decline in population and years of public concern, Manitoba closed the moose hunt in 2011. Recently the government announced the moose population has stabilized in regions where the Bipole III will be built.
Manitoba Hydro was allowed to define the project area, study area, and local study area in order to pick information to use, including to self-assess impacts. Access to first filing materials is inadequate, with many improvements needed in the expected supplemental filing.
Contacts:
Manitoba Wildlands
Gaile Whelan-Enns
Director
(204) 944-9593
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Datum: 27.03.2012 - 22:27 Uhr
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