Bulletins

The scenery around Otter Lake has been spectacular at the beginning of 2019! Wishing you a happy, healthy year ahead with much time spent at our amazing lake.

Sad news – in the early hours of Dec. 26th there was a fire which completely destroyed the house at the Otter Lake Marina. The information we have is that thankfully no one was in the house. The fire department was on the scene. Out buildings, stored boats, car port, docks, nearby trees etc. were […]

The cold, still Christmas morning light showed the open spot from the day before completely frozen over. So if it doesn’t open up again, our 2018 “Ice In” date will be Dec. 25th.

Henvey Inlet Wind Construction UpdateWhat we have accomplished to date:– Access roads completed – 82%– Turbine foundations poured – 80%– Wind turbines installed – 18 of 87– Collector system cable install completed – 40 of 112 km– Permanent met tower installations completed – 2 of 3– Foundation work at the south substation is 97% complete– Foundation work for transformers is 75% complete Summary of planned […]

After a summer of drought and forest fires, FOCA’s Fall seminar was timely and full of lots of good info on what is coming and how to be better prepared. The feature presenter was Dan Sandink, Director of Research with the Canadian Institute of Institute Catastrophic Loss Reduction(ICLR). Download the slides from Dan’s presentation entitled, […]

This visual simulation shows the current view vs the expected view of the transmission towers which will be visible from Little Otter Lake once the Henvey Inlet Wind project is connected at the Garden Court switching station.  Hydro One has started work associated with the 22 new structures that will be utilized to connect the […]