Tree clearing work for Maritime Link to begin soon in Cape Breton : Emera

SYDNEY, N.S. – After nearly three years of negotiations and meetings work on building the Maritime Link will soon begin on the ground in Cape Breton.

During a presentation to Cape Breton regional council on Tuesday, Emera Newfoundland and Labrador president Rick Janega says tree clearing work for transmission lines will start “fairly shortly,” employing between 20 to 50 people.

Janega says two subsea cables the size of a “two-litre bottle of pop” will be buried about one metre beneath the seabed of the Cabot Strait.

The cables will come ashore just northwest of the existing Nova Scotia Power generating station in Point Aconi.

From there transmission towers will travel 46 kilometres inland to a converter station at Woodbine where the high-voltage direct current will switch to a 230-kilovolt alternating current for use in the province’s power grid.

Janega says the subsea cable is expected to be laid near the end of the project in 2017, once all other infrastructure is in place.

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