Tazi Twé Hydroelectric Project

Province: Saskatchewan

City/Region: Elizabeth Falls

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Project Type: Hydroelectric

Industry Sector: Energy

Project Amount: $500 million

Date of Completion: 2019

Funding Source: Public

Provincial Funding: SaskPower: $500 million

Previous Rankings

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About The Project

The proponent has proposed the construction and operation of a 50 MW water diversion-type electrical generating station at Elizabeth Falls. The proposed project would be located adjacent to the Fond du Lac River on the Black Lake Denesuline First Nation reserve land Chicken 224 between Black Lake and Middle Lake in northern Saskatchewan, approximately seven kilometres northeast of the community of Black Lake. It would involve the construction and operation of a water intake, a power tunnel, a powerhouse, a tail race, a submerged weir, a construction camp, a bridge, and access roads.

In an EA decision statement in July 2015, the federal minister of the environment said the project was not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. The EA report states project construction would take approximately three years, from 2016 to 2019.

Project Owner: Black Lake First Nation in partnership with SaskPower

Project/Construction Manager: SaskPower

Engineer: KGS Group (engineering, design, and technical assessment)

Contractor: Peter Kiewit Infrastructure (general contractor)

Environmental Services: Golder Associates (environmental impact assessment)

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