Depending on who you talk to on the Port au Port Peninsula, the region is either on the brink of an economic transformation or walking an environmental tightrope.Forty-five per cent of residents in the area drew employment insurance in 2019. But a company formed just a few months ago, World Energy GH2, promises a revolutionary wind-hydrogen project it says will bring hundreds of jobs and millions in revenue.The hiccup? That plan depends on building 164 turbines, each 200 metres tall, in an area about the size of the City of St. John’s.The project’s staunchest defenders say the area’s population will explode when the project gets off the ground. Its fiercest critics say constructing turbines and kilometres of new access roads will change the face of the peninsula.Experts also question the megaproject’s viability. Pegged at US$12 billion, it would be the first of its kind in Canada,…
Tensions high on Port au Port Peninsula over wind-hydrogen megaproject
