Forty megawatts on the ridges above Baddeck. Offered for Mi'kmaw co-ownership. Open for public comment until November 30, 2026.
Four-megawatt turbines on upland ridges west and north of Baddeck, sited away from homes, the National Park and the core Cabot Trail views. Full environmental assessment. Every study published.
Wind on these ridges averages 7 to 8.5 m/s, among the strongest onshore in Atlantic Canada. For decades there was nowhere to send it. The 2026 grid decisions changed that.
An offtake purchaser is secured in principle; a 25-year fixed-price contract is targeted for 2027. The capital structure is published at financial close. Nothing is added to power bills.
Technical documents
A wind project in Cape Breton needs firm backup, a way to finance Indigenous ownership, one environmental review instead of two, and a buyer. In 2026 all four arrived.
Canada and Nova Scotia agree to a single environmental review for major projects.
$20B at the Canada Infrastructure Bank, a 30% clean-electricity credit, Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program doubled to $10B.
$10B federal financing for Churchill Falls, Gull Island (2,700 MW) and 660 km of new transmission.
EverWind and Anthropic announce a 420 MW data centre at Point Tupper, 90 km away, with four new wind farms to supply it. CBC
Labrador hydro firms Maritime wind; Port Hawkesbury's 345 kV backbone carries it; Wind West follows offshore. The blue is hydro filling the gaps between gusts.
Every question asked about Baddeck has been asked and answered elsewhere in Nova Scotia in the last four years.
| Project | Capacity | Where · who | Note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamins Mill Wind | 34 MW | West Hants · Natural Forces + WMA | Majority Mi'kmaw-owned, CIB-financed, 25-year PPA. Baddeck's template. | Operating |
| Weavers Mountain Wind | 94.4 MW | Pictou & Antigonish · SWEB + Glooscap | One of five 2022 procurement projects, all majority Mi'kmaw-owned. | Operating |
| Higgins Mountain Wind | 100 MW | Cumberland & Colchester · Sipekne'katik + Elemental | Ridge-top siting with the same setbacks and limits. | Operating |
| Mersey River Wind | 148.5 MW | Queens County · Renewall Energy | First to sell directly to customers. $206M from the CIB. | First power 2026 |
| Goose Harbour Lake Wind | 168 MW | Guysborough · Port Hawkesbury Paper | 10% owned by WMA, the agency of all 13 Mi'kmaw communities. | Under construction |
| Ocean Lake Wind | 1,264 MW | Guysborough · EverWind + Membertou | Largest ever approved in the province, Indigenous-led. | Approved July 2026 |
| Point Tupper AI Data Centre | 420 MW | Richmond County · EverWind + Anthropic | Phase 1 (95 MW) by end 2027; Membertou-led consortium negotiating 9%. | Announced Oct 2026 |
Power and cooling are most of what a data centre costs. Here one can be fixed for a generation and the other is done by the climate. The first 420 MW of demand is now 90 km away.
Free-air cooling most of the year. Chillers become the exception.
No gas, carbon or spot-market shocks for a generation.
2,700 MW of Labrador hydro behind the wind.
The reason the price can be fixed low.
Transatlantic cables land in Nova Scotia.
Phase one is 40 MW. The platform is firm Atlantic power under long-term agreements.
Point Tupper will draw about 3.5 TWh a year. The wind farms meant to supply it take years to permit and build. Independent wind, already in consultation, close to the load, is the gap.
Enquire about offtakeWhat could a data centre look like if Baddeck's wind cooled it and Baddeck's hills held it? One swept wing on the ridge above Bell's bay. Nothing moving outside, nothing hidden inside.
An aircraft-wing profile swept into a boomerang, elbow to the wind. A louvred mouth along the leading edge; wind pressure in, lee-side suction out. No chillers, no refrigerants. Waste heat to a greenhouse. Arms taper into the hillside so it reads as a ridge, not a wall.
Access from Highway 105, a visitor centre and parking at the foot of the ridge, one path up the back of the wing to a lookout over the Bras d'Or. Glazed tips as viewing rooms. A stop between Baddeck and the Margaree, with the wind project on the skyline behind it.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, spent his last 37 summers at Beinn Bhreagh across the water from Baddeck, building kites, hydrofoils and the Silver Dart that lifted off Baddeck Bay on 23 February 1909. The telephone network he started became the internet; the internet now runs on buildings like this one. Putting one on the hills above his bay, shaped like a wing, closes that loop.
Consulted is not the same as included. Ownership is offered up front, and the benefits stay in Victoria County.
Baddeck sits on unceded Mi'kmaw territory. There are two ways to handle that: consult afterward, or offer ownership first. We are offering the second.
No land control or signed offtake yet. Consultation, wind measurement and the assessment are under way. Here is the rest.
Incorporated. Landowner and Mi'kmaw conversations opened.
Comments to November 30. Met mast going up. One-window EA scoped.
Permits, a 25-year PPA, federal clean-power instruments.
Roads, foundations, turbines, grid connection. Local hiring.
Annual public reports. Decommissioning bond from day one.
Short answers. The long ones are in the technical documents.
Research finds small effects within about a kilometre and little beyond. The 600 m setback and an independent appraisal address it directly.
Visible on some horizons. A visual impact assessment from the village, the Cabot Trail and the lakeshore will be published.
35 to 40 dB(A) at the setback, about a quiet library. Curtailed automatically if limits would be exceeded.
Pre-construction radar and acoustic monitoring, curtailment in migration season, federal Species at Risk protocols.
Sited away from the National Park and core Cabot Trail views. A tourism impact study is under way.
Yes. A community bond or co-op share with an accessible minimum. Details before year end.
Not through power bills. Private capital and the federal clean-power instruments every Canadian energy project now uses. The full capital structure is published at close.
A decommissioning bond is posted before construction. Turbines are removed and land restored at the operator's cost.
Yes. Comments go on the regulatory record. Enough of them, on substance, can stop it.
Every submission is recorded, published, answered in writing and filed with regulators.
Every channel is treated identically in the regulatory record.
AWEL Wind Energy Ltd.
45 Weatherbee Road, Suite 404B
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