Namakan River Dam Proposal Back On the Table
Revived project faces financial and environmental challenges.
Revived project faces financial and environmental challenges.
Tiny freshwater jellyfish have recently made a rare appearance in Namakan Lake along the Ontario border. The creature — Craspedacusta sowerbii — is the size of a small coin and typical shows itself toward the end of warm summers.
The comment period on the Draft Environmental Report for Ojibway Power and Energy Group’s proposed hydroelectric project on the Namakan River west of Quetico Provincial Park closes tomorrow.
The inspection and public comment period for the proposed Namakan River Hydro Development Project got underway in late December with the release of the project’s Draft Environmental Report by the Ojibway Power and Energy Group.
Field studies for the Namakan River Hydro Development Project proposed by the Ojibway Power and Energy Group have been competed, the organization announced recently. OPEG expects publication of its Draft Environmental Report on the project in November.
Environmental Assessment report for the Namakan River Dam Project proposed by Ojibway Power & Energy Group has been delayed.
The Spring 2008 issue of Wilderness News covered a proposed dam at High Falls on the Namakan River west of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario. A project with environmental impacts on both sides of the border, the Ojibway Power and Energy Group (OPEG) is preparing to release its Environmental Assessment as part of a proponent-led approval process.
The Quetico Superior Foundation board recently voted to formally oppose the Namakan River Dam proposed by Ojibway Power and Energy.
A study examining the health of the Namakan Reservoir’s sturgeon population has entered its third year. The study, which could have an impact on proposed hydroelectric projects on Ontario’s Namakan River, seeks to establish baseline information on health of the species of “special concern” in both Minnesota and Ontario.
Voyageurs National Park Association is taking the lead in a cross-border effort to oppose a dam proposed by the Ojibway Power and Energy Group at High Falls on the Namakan River.
Strong opposition emerges against effort to prohibit motor vehicles on large swaths of ice.
Some campsites and facilities are still closed, but a no-wake restriction has been lifted and boat tours have resumed.
Water levels on Crane, Rainy, Namakan, and other border lakes are already high, and expected to keep climbing with late thaw, ice floes causing hazards.
Portages out of infested Rainy Lake will require precautions to prevent spread of invasive species.
A coalition of groups is seeking national designation for the historic canoe routes near the Minnesota-Ontario border.
The 42-foot craft will be based at the Kabetogama Visitors Center and provide access to popular parts of the park that are only accessible by water.
Project seeks to manage a growing threat to the park’s wetlands.
An influential advocate for protecting northern Minnesota’s natural treasures, instrumental in Voyageurs National Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area we know today.
The Minnesota Conservation Volunteer has been published by natural resources departments for nearly half the state’s history.
Forest surveyors find massive specimen of the boreal tree species in remote area of wilderness.