When asked by journalist Tim Bosquet from the local investigative media “Halifax Examiner” how the province could bring enough wind energy into its own power grid when at the same time large quantities are needed for the production and export of hydrogen or ammonia, Miller dismissed “competition”. Land for wind farms. “Nova Scotia only has so much space available.”
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After initially little interest, people are now crowding in front of the diagrams at the so-called open houses that EverWind has to organize, torn between the promises formulated here and the plans for the wind farms, some of which are to grow in local recreation areas , where they have spent their free time, hunting, fishing and obtaining their drinking water for generations. He is not against wind farms, says Steven Hart, 35 and a mechanic by profession. But he and his colleagues wonder what will happen to the reindeer’s migration routes, for example, if mills from a third wind farm stand in their way. “There are also high concentrations of arsenic, radon and uranium in the soil,” says Hart. The fact that the construction work will affect wells and drinking water resources is a major concern.