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Calgary firm to
build wind farms in Maine
KIBBY TOWNSHIP, Me.
TransCanada Corp. of Calgary
plans to apply within 30 days for
a permit to build a wind farm
valued at US$250 million to US$300 million
on two western Maine mountains.
TransCanada says it will ask the Land
Use Regulation Commission for permission
to install 44 turbines on 22 kilometres
of ridge line on Kibby Mountain and Kibby
Range, just south of the Quebec border.
"We have satisfied ourselves that is an
appropriate site for wind power," said Nick
Di Domenico, TransCanada's project manager.
TransCanada plans to seek a public
hearing on its project next spring. If
approved, construction would take place
over two years with some turbines operating
by the end of 2008 and the project complete
in 2009, Di Domenico said.
A substation would be built at the base
of the ridge lines, from which about 45 kms
of transmission lines would connect with
the Bigelow substation in Carrabassett
Valley.
The turbine heights will be 79 metres to
the top of the hub where Federal Aviation
Administration lighting would be located
and an additional 45 metres to the tip of the
blade.
The company received LURC approval
last year to erect three meteorological towers
to measure wind velocity, Di Domenico
said.
It also conducted other environmental
studies, including the project's impact on
wetlands and bats.
An earlier project in Franklin County
now under review by LURC is Maine
Mountain Power LLC's $130-million proposal
to build 30 wind towers atop the
Redington Pond Range and Black Nubble
mountains in Redington Township, near
Carrabassett Valley.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Olympic stadiums mired in delays
ZURICH, Switzerland
The slow progress in building stadiums
for the 2010 World Cup
and an EU-backed report calling
for new rules in the corporate governance
of soccer drew criticism from FIFA president
Sepp Blatter.
South Africa, which will host the 2010
World Cup from June 11-July 11, has been
having construction delays and internal
squabbles over its 10 stadiums, and Blatter
has voiced his concern in the past.
"We still have a few shovels and few
picks here that you can take home along so
that work really now progresses so that the
stadia will be built on time," Blatter told
South Africa organizing committee head
Danny Jordaan. But Blatter quickly added:
"Nevertheless, we express confidence in
South Africa."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
22 a 28 de Dezembro de 2006
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