Energy Manitoba

EnergyManitoba.org will become a site about energy in Manitoba: hydro, solar, wind, biogas, new fuels, etc. Public policy, the regulatory framework for energy, environmental assessment, news from Manitoba, Canada, and international sources will all be featured. Wuskwatim materials will be maintained, and archived. Our News Page will be the first to expand.

Watch for:

New Link: Hydro Licences - Past
New Page: Hydro Reports - Past
Cabinet Appeal - Wuskwatim Licence, view latest documents
Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) environmental assessment of the Wuskwatim generation station & comments on the report
Visit the ManitobaWildlands.org Wuskwatim Project pages

For information contact: info@energymanitoba.org
For CEC information go to www.cecmanitoba.ca or call: 1-800-597-3556

EIS Cross Examination Questions

Manitoba Wildlands prepared several sets of cross-examination questions related to the review of the Wuskwatim Environmental Impact Statements. These questions were to be asked of the proponents during the Clean Environment Commission (CEC) hearings for the Wuskwatim projects. Manitoba Wildlands only participated for one hour in the cross examination process. We have posted here EIS questions NOT posed and NOT answered by Manitoba Hydro. In some cases, there are more than one set of questions associated with a single topic. At the base of these sets of EIS questions is a link to the first set asked and answered on April 15, 2004.

EIS Cross Examination - Opening Questions (DOC)

EIS Cross Examination - Defining the "Baseline" (DOC)

EIS Cross Examination - Biodiviersity, Linear Disturbance & Birds (DOC)

EIS Cross Examination - Caribou (DOC)

EIS Cross Examination - Environmental Protection Plans (DOC)

EIS Cross Examination - HSI Models (RTF):
- Generation - Non-Disclosure of Content of Models
- Transmission - Transferability of HSI models - woodland caribou
- Transmission - Transferability of HSI models - moose
- Transmission - Transferability of HSI models
- Transmission - Credibility of HSI model - woodland caribou
- Transmission - Ignore spatial aspect - moose

EIS Cross Examination - Linear Disturbance in the Boreal Forest (DOC)

EIS Cross Examination - Residual Adverse Impacts (DOC)

EIS Cross Examination - Species (RTF)
- Invasive Species
- Habitat Fragmentation
- White-tailed Deer
- HSI Models

EIS Cross Examination - Caribou-Transmission Project (RTF):
- Scientific Publications
- Transmission-Access re: humans and wolves
- Access Issues re: Wolves
- Edge Effects-Cross-Boundary Subsidies

April 15, 2004 CEC Wuskwatim Hearing Transcript
- Manitoba Wildlands EIS Questions
Cross-examination begins at page 5100 Line 14 and continues to page 5164 Line 18

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