Dalhousie Mountain Wind Farms is a large wind farm

Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

 project near New Glasgow

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

New Glasgow is a town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into Pictou Harbour, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait....

, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

. It consists of 31 wind turbines that produce a total of 51 MW (megawatts). Along Highway 101 passing over Mount Thom motorists can see the 31 turbines on each side of Mt. Dalhouse. "It is quite a sight to see when they (wind turbines) are blowing in the wind" said Mount Thom resident Mike McPherson. The turbines are owned by RMSenergy Ltd. and Stantec Consultants Ltd..