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Sunny with a risk of a thunderstorm later this afternoon. A high of 30 C and a UV index of 8 or very high.
What’s happening today
🏈 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Toronto Argonauts at Princess Auto Stadium, starting at 7:30 p.m.
Today’s must-read
In April, the Manitoba Métis Federation and U.K.-based Renewable Energy Systems announced a joint proposal to build a 200-megawatt wind farm in the village of Polonia, located about 200 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
The Fleury Winds project, majority-owned by the MMF, would consist of about 30 turbines, each more than 700-feet tall, situated on private farmland.
The pitch is part of a provincial initiative to install 600 megawatts of majority Indigenous-owned wind power by 2035 to both address a looming electricity shortfall and progress toward net-zero targets.
But many in the area aren’t sold on the project.
Julia-Simone Rutgers has the story.
James Mitchell, is among a group of residents in and around the Polonia, (near Neepawa) area opposed to a wind farm project. (Cheryl Hnatiuk / Free Press)
On this date
On July 10, 1981: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that for nearly one and a half years, the Manitoba government had avoided making public a report that said excessive mercury levels had been found in certain fish species in the Red, Assiniboine and Winnipeg rivers. Winnipeg school division trustees who voted to increase their salaries by 93 per cent would likely become the highest-paid trustees in the country.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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