What We Heard: Second Series of Offshore Wind Community Information Sessions

The potential for offshore wind (OSW) presents a generational economic development opportunity for Unama’ki – Cape Breton. There has been an unprecedented interest in Unama’ki – Cape Breton for the development of commercial OSW due to our natural resources.

As Unama’ki – Cape Breton sits on the precipice of a green energy transformation, the work conducted by the Cape Breton Partnership is amplifying the voices of communities, helping to build capacity, and bridge knowledge gaps to prepare for potential changes that could occur during this transition.

The Cape Breton Partnership has been conducting community engagement to ensure that communities have access to information and can make informed decisions about future green energy development. The Green Energy Engagement Program (GEEP) was developed in 2023 to begin meaningful community engagement, create ongoing dialogue, and facilitate equitable knowledge exchange as we endeavour to create a more sustainable future.

The first major milestone for the GEEP was the delivery of the OSW Community Information Sessions that began in 2023, in collaboration with Net Zero Atlantic. The What We Heard Report that compiled feedback from communities, can be found at www.capebretonpartnership.com/GEEP. The report that follows provides an overview of our second series of OSW Community Information Sessions conducted in late 2024, along with a summary of feedback from the communities visited across Unama’ki – Cape Breton.