This facility was built in 1984 to harness the power of the severe tides that occur four times a day in the Bay of Fundy. The power plant has the most stories of any building in Annapolis Royal but nine of them are below ground because they house the turbine. It generates 80-100 Megawatts a day but more were not built after this one in the same design. That's because the act of dumping a lot of earth to block a river to store water to make electricity harms the environment more than you would think. The banks nearby have eroded, the passage of fish is no longer as free as it was and two whales got caught in behind the dam and one died. Even
Nova Scotia Power is looking to other ways to generate power using the tides that don't harm the environment.
I went here shortly after it opened and even though it wasn't the best of outcomes, it is a step towards developing renewable energy.
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