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- From: dgh@validgh.com (David G. Hough on validgh)
- Newsgroups: alt.native
- Subject: Re: --Canadian Natives to Sell Wind
- Summary: make money?
- Message-ID: <587@validgh.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:57:13 GMT
- References: <1308200097@igc.apc.org>
- Organization: validgh, PO Box 20370, San Jose, CA 95160
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- In article <1308200097@igc.apc.org>, tgray@igc.apc.org (Tom Gray) writes:
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- Native residents of the Peigan Indian Reserve near Lethbridge,
- Alberta, are anticipating a major economic windfall from a windfarm
- to be built on their property next year, according to the Financial
- Times of Canada.
-
- Wind studies of the area, the article said, indicate that it
- exceeds California's Altamont Pass, one of the largest
- concentrations of windpower in the world, in wind energy potential.
-
- The Peigan project is partially funded with money from the
- Southwest Alberta Renewable Energy Initiative (SWAREI). However,
- the bulk of the funds for the $17-million project will come from
- the Peigans and their investors.
-
- The windfarm will be built by a Calgary firm, Wind Power, Inc.
-
- I wish the Peigans good luck. As an investor in various Altamont Pass
- projects, I can assure them that, with the benefit of hindsight, I wouldn't
- have bothered. Even with 50% tax credits available to California taxpayers,
- they were still a bad investment.
- Most have been foreclosed; many of the smaller
- promoters have gone bankrupt. Who owns Wind Power, Inc?
- --
-
- David Hough
- dgh@validgh.com
-