It is unfortunate- but typical- that Nova Scotia did not have a wind farm land use process. And it is unfortunate that our governments have done nothing to facilitate the adaption of the grid to handle more renewables- because we will not get a lot more into the grid just by building more wind turbines.

Two tonnes of CO2 are produced for every tonne of hydrogen produced with fossil gas. Whether or not that is the single most efficient use of wind power, that kind of decarbonization of industrial products also has to happen if we are to avert runaway climate change. No one has argued and factually supported that wind power being used to produce green hydrogen/ammonia is not significant climate change action.

No knowledgeable critic of the project has argued how pushing this project away because it is not the very most efficient thing we could do with our resources, is going to somehow lead to more resources going into boosting renewables on the grid. Our political history here suggests that even with dedicated and persistent work from Ecology Action Centre and others, if Everwind is pushed away we gain nothing instead of it.

Doing more renewables and adapting the grid first IS (was) the best way to go. But the pace has been at a crawl for years, and grid improvement lags completely. I can make the case that it is more realistic and likely to use a project like this as a fulcrum to get what Nova Scotia needs to de carbonize the grid. An argument way too long winded for a comment.