Yet driving around the 29km-long island, this perception suddenly changes: a clutch of six steel masts here, another four there. It is hard to believe, seeing this, that the wind farm is Canada's second-largest.
The C$475m ($442m) Canadian Hydro Developers (CanHydro) project was switched on this summer. Consisting of 86 Siemens SWT-2.3-93 Mark II wind turbines arrayed over a 60sq km area on the west side of the island, the wind farm has a nameplate capacity of 197.8
