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New Era North Fork Hydro
1.
Canada and Yukon are committed to increasing production of green energy and reducing greenhouse gases. At present Yukon Energy Corp Yukon is promoting renewable energy options to displace electricity that is being generated by fossil fuels. The Yukon is promoting new green power generation through their
Independent Power Producer policy (IPP policy)
. Re-development of the historic North Fork hydro would result in a reduction of 8,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year.
Question: Are you aware of the IPP policy.
Yes
No
2.
Re-development of the historic North Fork hydro would result in a reduction of 8,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year.
Question: Do you support the Yukon initiative to increase green energy supply in hand with the reduction of fossil fuel generated power?
Yes
No
3.
A “brown green hydro” is a hydro that creates green energy without creating a dam and lake and that does not create additional environmental impact since it is built in an already disturbed footprint of a previous hydro.
Question: are you supportive of “brown green hydro” developments?
Yes
No
4.
The historic North Fork Hydro ran continuously from 1911 to 1966.
Question: were you aware the historic run of river hydro existed and if “yes” do you have any memories regarding it, the North Fork River and the salmon in it and can you relay these stories to us?
5.
Currently Yukon Energy Corp (YEC) supplies power to Dawson from it's hydro facilities in Whitehorse and Mayo via the local hydro transmission grid. Since most of the power is generated in Whitehorse, YEC needs to balance the northern end of the grid and having additional generation in the north can contribute to grid stability and resilience.
Question: Are you supportive of the North Fork hydro being re-developed and linked into the local YEC grid?
Yes
No
6.
The historic North Fork hydro utilized both the North and South forks of the Klondike River and produced approximately 11.2MW of power. During it’s operating life salmon populations in the Yukon and Klondike rivers where high and it wasn’t until the 1980’s, approximately twenty years after the hydro shut down that salmon populations began to decline. All the evidence for the decline points to overfishing at the mouth of the Yukon River by international fishing companies. New Era North Fork run of river hydro will be much smaller than the historic hydro generating only 2MW or about 18% of the power generated by the historic facility and will only be drawing water from the North Klondike.
Question: Do you think re-development of the run of river North Fork hydro is a positive step in Canada and Yukon’s goals of increasing green energy and one that should be supported?
Yes
No
7.
Are you a First Nations citizen?
Yes
No
8.
Are you a Dawson City resident?
Yes
No
9.
If No to 7 and 8, where do you live?