CBC Maritimes

Can the Bay of Fundy tides generate enough energy while having very little or no effects on the environment?

There isn't a single way of creating electricity that doesn't affect the environment. Over the past generation, there's been a reaction against the ways that do the most harm to living things or which deplete natural resources. But even forms of so-called renewable energy aren't totally benign.

In the Maritimes, the energy potential of the Fundy tides has become the focus of three groups that want to try demonstration projects :  Minas Basin Pulp and Power, Nova Scotia Power, and Clean Current (from British Columbia).

Nova Scotia's Minister of the Environment has granted approval for the three projects to go ahead, but with a set of conditions designed to monitor their effects on the environment, and, the effects of the turbulent Fundy tides on the underwater turbines.

We spoke with Peter Geddes, an Environmental Assessment Officer with the province.
For details on the approval conditions, click here.

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