Right-of-ways
Ensuring
reliable electricity service means carefully maintaining the
right-of-ways our poles and lines run through. These are a critical part
of how we deliver power to our customers. We own some of the land where
our transmission and distribution lines are based, but through legal
agreements we also make use of a great deal of land owned by others.
One
important part of maintaining our right-of-ways in an environmentally
responsible way is identifying where sensitive species make their
habitats. We have worked with the Nova Scotia government to identify the
locations of protected areas near the provincial power system and
ensure we have the information we need to responsibly manage these
important areas.
We see a managed system as a combination of things –
we want to stop trees from growing up into our power lines and we want
to create animal habitat. We seek out opportunities to grow compatible
crops and vegetation such as blueberries or Christmas trees on
right-of-ways. In fact, landowners with property that abuts a
transmission line can contact us to get approval to use right-of-way
land to grow approved crops like these.