NOTE... The opening comments are from an anonomous source.
Even larger in scope than Kleana's proposal is that of Plutonic's for the entire Bute Inlet watershed (Homathko and Southgate, plus tributaries), with a total of 12 new hydro plants hooked together, either feeding power into the long transmission link they are now building from Saltery Bay Sub on the Cheekye-Dunsmuir line all the way into Toba, or partnering with Kleana's new transmission line crosssing Johnstone Straight to Campbell River. This is the link to Plutonic's "pre-application" document at EAO:
http://a100.gov.bc.ca/appsdata/epic/html/deploy/epic_project_doc_list_316_p_pro.htmlKleana is after a peak of 700MW, and Plutonic is eying 900MW, so when you add Kleana and Plutonic proposals together on a wet winter day, that's potentially about 1.6 Gigawatts of new privatized power to Central-Northern Vancouver Island, for half a million new homes. And this new set of transmission lines on the coast will quickly turn another hundred more potential hydro sites into economically-viable "low hanging fruit":
The article below is found on the website listed at the bottom of the article itself.
Klinaklini River at Risk The Klinaklini River flows through ranchlands and scenic mountains near Kleena Kleene in the Chilcotin, on its way to the ocean.
The Klinaklini River, approximately 200 Km long, passes between some of the tallest and most remote peaks in the Coastal Mountain Range. With a mean annual discharge of close to 200 cubic meters per second (cms) and peak flows reaching as high as 18,000 cms the Klinaklini River is one of the largest rivers in the province. Home to large populations of threatened Grizzly Bear and Marbled Murrelet, this drainage currently encompasses some of least fragmented habitat on the Canadian West Coast. With recorded Salmon, Steelhead and Eulachon runs in the lower river found to be some of the largest in the Georgia Basin.
Kleana Power Corp, a junior energy corporation without any currently successful projects, has recently proposed to develop the largest private Run-of-River generating facility in BC’s history with an average generating capacity of 280 MW and a peak capacity of 700 MW. Pristine Power Inc. quotes annual generated power to be 2400 GWh. This equals approximately to 50% of the power expected from Site C. In order to create a generating capacity this large, generating and transmission infrastructure of large proportion will be necessary. To give an idea of the scale of the development, here are some numbers:
16.5 Km long and 10m wide diversion tunnel.
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