By Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Representatives of three Mi’gmaq communities in Quebec have joined forces to explore the possibility of constructing a massive wind farm project in their territories. The communities of Gespeg, Gesgapegiag and Listuguj, collectively known as the Mi’gmaq of Gespe’gewa’gi, are shareholders of the Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Business Corporation (MMBC). It was announced in late August that the MMBC had partnered with Alliance de l’énergie de l’Est and Hydro-Québec to explore the wind farm project that could generate up to 6,000 megawatts of new wind power capacity. The initiative is a green energy project that would create long-term revenues for the Mi’gmaq communities. “We’ve been working on this for about the past year-and-a-half,” said Fred Vicaire, CEO of MMBC. Vicaire said there are areas of…
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