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Huge Indigenous Solar Farm Opens in Remote Northern Community: 'We work with the sun for the children of the future'
A 5,700-panel solar farm opens for the Indigenous Fort Chipewyan community by Three Nations Energy, the most remote solar farm in the world.
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Canada’s largest indigenous-owned solar farm has just been opened in the Northern Alberta community of Fort Chipewyan.
Supplying 2.2 megawatts of solar electricity for three First Nations tribes, it will decrease the reliance of the community on the diesel-fired plant that has supplied them for decades.
Jointly owned by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, the Mikisew Cree First Nation, and the Fort Chipewyan Metis Association, Three Nations Energy was established to bring about low-cost, low-carbon energy to help mitigate climate-related threats and decrease reliance and unreliable diesel tanker deliveries.
“We worked together and we made it happen,” Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation said Tuesday at a COVID-limited celebration of the completion of the project’s second and final phase.
“We work with the sun, we work with the wind, we work with mother nature and we work the water for the children of the future—to give them a better life, a cleaner life.”