Point Tupper, home to one of the world’s deepest ports, is also the site of EverWind Fuels’ under-development green hydrogen and ammonia production, storage and export facility. Along with that project, a second undertaking is planned for Bear Head, just three kilometres south of the EverWind site. The Bear Head location was to have been the site of an liquified natural gas (LNG) project but the company’s new owners are now planning to go ahead with a green hydrogen production, storage and export facility. CONTRIBUTED
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POINT TUPPER, N.S. — A major green energy developer signed an agreement with Mi’kmaw communities on Tuesday to ensure their participation in the development of a green hydrogen and ammonia production facility in Point Tupper.
Bear Head Energy Inc. and the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs committed to soon mend an existing agreement — the 2019 Benefits Agreement — that guaranteed Mi’kmaw benefits for their contributions toward Bear Head’s energy projects in the area.
Bear Head’s statement said the amendment’s purpose is to “reinforce the commitment … to develop the project in an environmentally sustainable manner” and guarantee Mi’kmaw stakeholders can participate and benefit.
“This Benefits Agreement will not only help us as leaders be engaged in what is happening with the project but it will also give Mi’kmaw the opportunity to realize economic opportunities in the work that they are doing,” said Sidney Peters, the chief of Glooscap First Nation and co-chair of the Mi’kmaw chiefs assembly in the statement.
