Russia UES, Japan Sumitomo sign power deal
MOSCOW -- - Russia's power monopoly UES said recently it had signed an agreement with Japan's Sumitomo Corp on building an electricity supply line from Russia's far eastern island of Sakhalin to Japan.
The project would include construction of a 4,000 megawatt gas electricity station and an underwater cable from Sakhalin to the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu.
A Royal Dutch Shell-led group developing oil and gas fields on Sakhalin gave the final go-ahead in May for a huge $10 billion LNG plant on the Pacific coast.
The project, known as Sakhalin-2, has already been producing oil from an offshore platform since 1999.
The group plans to develop a neighbouring gas field, build oil and gas pipelines which would stretch almost the entire 1,000-km length of the territory of Sakhalin, and construct an oil terminal and an LNG plant in the island's south.
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Minister Natalie Jameson approved the P.E.I. Energy Corporation’s Eastern Kings Wind Farm expansion project, the province announced in a release Wednesday afternoon.
The project will be subject to 17 conditions, which were drawn from a review of the 80 responses the province received from the public on the proposed Eastern Kings Wind Farm expansion.
The corporation must provide a summary on the status of each condition to the department on a monthly basis.
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