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Minister tours wind farm Gazette staff PORT HARDY— Environment Minister Terry Lake last week visited North Vancouver Island
to tour the construction site of the 99-megawatt Cape Scott Wind Farm project located 40 kilometres west of Port Hardy and to sign
agreements between BC Parks and the Gwa’sala’Nakwaxda’xw Nations that will foster ecological stewardship and economic
development in the nations’ traditional territories. When operational late this year, the Cape Scott Wind Farm project will
power the annual needs of approximately 26,000
See page 4 ‘Wind farm signs’
• A REAL DILLY Daffodilly combines golf, curling to mark the change of club seasons. Page 17
• RAISE A TOAST Local Toastmasters Club hosts inaugural speech competition. Page 20
‘Namgis senior administrator George Speck and ‘Namgis Chief Bill Cranmer watch the first Atlantic salmon smolts pour into the quarantine tank at the First Nation’s closed containment aquaculture facility south of Port McNeill Monday. J.R. Rardon
• IN MIDWEEK Cedar weaving workshop draws artistic talent to Fort Rupert. Midweek, inside
Fish farm gets first occupants J.R. Rardon Gazette editor PORT McNEILL—With a cry of “Here they come!” from beyond a roll-up shop door, the first fish arrived Monday afternoon to leap and circle in Canada’s first land-based, closed-containment
salmon farm devoted to growing Atlantic salmon to market. “I hope this day will be marked down in history as the first day in our transition from open net to closed containment farming, to better protect our environment and the wild salmon,” said Chief
Bill Cranmer of the ‘Namgis First Nation, which owns the ‘Namgis Closed Containment Project on its territory just south of Port McNeill. “It’s a very exciting day.” More than 23,000 Atlantic salmon smolts were transferred
from truck-mounted containers to the quarantine tank in the facility. They will spend the next four months there feeding, growing
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