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WVU researcher works to strengthen research and management of public lands recreation | Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design | West Virginia University
by Duane Nichols 26 May '20

26 May '20

https://www.davis.wvu.edu/news/2020/05/21/wvu-researcher-works-to-strengthe… WVU researcher works to strengthen research and management of public lands recreation Thursday, May 21, 2020 DAVIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES AND DESIGN If the novel coronavirus crisis has taught us nothing else, it’s the value of public lands and outdoor recreation opportunities. Seeking the balm of the great outdoors, the American people are spilling out onto public roads, trails, forests and parks in great numbers while trying to maintain social distance. According to a West Virginia University researcher, however, national parks and forests are consistently challenged to provide sustainable recreation experiences while adapting to increased public demand. “Outdoor recreation is the most immediate way people connect with public lands; it is so important,” said Steve Selin, professor of recreation, parks and tourism resources in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design. “Societal trends and new technologies have changed how people interact with public lands; however, public land management has not kept up with the rapid social change.” A leader on a national initiative to strengthen public lands recreation research and management, Selin is editor of a timely publication that takes an expansive look at current recreation issues and outlines research opportunities that could help managers better connect users to meaningful outdoor experiences. “Igniting the Science of Outdoor Recreation is a challenge, a provocation and suggested direction for all those who want to advance the science and art of sustainable outdoor recreation and tourism on our public lands,” he said. “It amounts to a collective national vision for outdoor recreation management and research.” Published by the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Station, the report offers a set of 17 papers addressing how changing demands are straining recreation infrastructure, access and resources. The publication and collaborative process that led to it will help federal agencies like the Forest Service and National Park Service with relevant science direction and best management practices to help them keep pace with social changes. “The kinds of recreation the public wants are more diverse than when previous recreation strategies were developed,” Selin said. “By improving understanding of changing public needs, we can be more relevant. And the American public will benefit as these federal agencies prioritize managed outdoor recreation settings and experiences.” To read the publication, download it from the U.S. Forest Service website.

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Thank you for your (LiDAR) Service - Inside Unmanned Systems
by Duane Nichols 24 May '20

24 May '20

https://insideunmannedsystems.com/thank-you-for-your-lidar-service-a-mounta… Thank you for your (LiDAR) Service May 25, 2020 By Abe Peck A Mountain State academic, a retired Marine Corps general and RedTail LiDAR Systems ease the waterway for a wounded warrior retreat RTL-400 point cloud of cabins and Clover Run trout stream. Photo courtesy of RedTail LiDAR Systems. Over Memorial Day weekend, Paul Kinder, Jr., was fishing for walleye on Lake Erie. But our conversation concentrated on other bodies of water and a sanctuary for those who’ve earned special access to enjoy the outdoors. Nestled on 500 acres of private land close by the greenery and mountains of the Monongahela National Forest, the non-profit Patriots 4 (P4) Outdoor Resort in St. George, West Virginia, offers respite to wounded veterans and their families. While other service members and civilians are welcome at the non-profit haven, the resort offers Purple Heart vets free short-term stays in four handicapped-accessible cabins, a tracked wheelchair and a solar-charged, hydraulic-actuated hunting platform. With the assistance of trained guides, differently abled visitors can hunt, and gain easy access to the Clover Run trout stream, as well as to frontage on the Cheat River for kayaking, tubing and the like. Dr. Kinder himself is not a veteran, but as director of the Natural Resource Analysis Center and manager of the Geospatial Analytics Program at West Virginia University he is something of a “connector” for this project. He’s on the board of Patriots 4. He’s used LiDAR for more than a decade. And he and his team of graduate students recently deployed a RedTail LiDAR Systems RTL-400 to aid in a stream bank restoration that improved and documented as-built conditions and ensured safe guest quarters. Trouble in Paradise Dr. Paul Kinder inspects a habitat-enhanced structure at the Patriots 4 facility. Photo courtesy of Paul Kinder/RedTail LiDAR Systems. Patriots4 is the vision of General Randall “Randy” L. West (Ret.), a decorated Marine who is now at once a national security consultant and an ordained lay minister. Kinder: “He said, ‘all those years of combat and never got hurt.’ This was his way to give back.’” The Clover Run trout stream is one of the site’s centerpieces. But over the years, human influence and heavy flooding had eroded its banks and led to severe habitat degradation. Safe access and even one of the cabins were threatened. To renew the site, Patriots 4 tapped a partnership between Kinder’s resource analysis center, the WV Division of Natural Resources and the USDA (the agriculture department) Natural Resource Conservation Service. Kinder’s credentials as a lab scientist, drone operator, and research professor in resource economics and management all fit the project’s profile. “Strangely enough, I got involved with General West and his crew through a congressman that I knew well, who knew that I knew how to hunt and fish,” Kinder recalled. “He asked me if I wanted to go and guide these guys.” Kinder and his family would take canoe trips down the river with wounded vets, but he’d also leverage his professional expertise. “It was serendipitous that I was working for our Department of Natural Resources doing stream restoration across the state. I talked them into going in with P4. It’s been a real win-win.” Cabin located on Clover Run trout stream. Photo courtesy of www.patriotsfour.org. Kinder’s first exposure to LiDAR dates to when he began teaching at West Virginia a dozen years ago. The school had purchased an OpTech back in 2004. “That was a million-dollar [LiDAR] sensor on an airplane. We mapped about 50 percent of West Virginia, the coal fields. It flew all over the country. But it cost us like $70,000 a year just for maintenance. We were like, ‘I can’t do this.’ We sold it, and I just got interested in drones.” In 2013, a Florida-based company helped Kinder put a FLIR camera on a DJI Phantom One. “I was trying to measure stream temperature with thermal imaging.” Send in the Drones Kinder connected with RedTail when the owner of parent company 4D Tech Solutions enlisted him to help commercialize technology licensed from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). “I’m not an engineer but I know what a good system looks like and what it has to do,” Kinder said. 4D Tech Solutions is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small business, and RedTail president/CEO Brad DeRoos, a Naval Academy grad, was enthusiastic about using his LiDAR system to commemorate military sacrifice. “RedTail’s ability to generate highly accurate and high resolution point clouds…is a great example of the many uses for drone-based LiDAR,” DeRoos said. “We are thrilled to have been a part of this important project.” The Patriots 4 restoration began three years ago. Kinder and teams of his graduate students surveyed in the first year with an initial drone. “Last year we did construction on part of it, and then more surveying.” By August 2019, failing banks had been identified and restored, the jeopardized cabin stabilized, and 22 habitats enhanced with log-rock structures to maintain fish pools and prevent further erosion. This past December, the Clover Run corridor was flown to document the as-built conditions and monitor the stream’s long-term health. Kinder noted technical issues with the initial LiDAR system, so he and his team phased in RedTail’s RTL-400. “Superior, high performance and efficient” in Kinder’s words, the RedTail unit’s microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror-based laser scanner produces accuracy by evenly distributing laser points on the ground, moving side to side 400 times per second with a laser pulse rate of up to 400,000 per second and an optimized scan angle of 35 degrees. A single 20-minute flight at 262 feet and 18 miles per hour yielded an accurate, high resolution 3D map. Kinder ticked off the advantages brought by LiDAR, and by the RTL-400 in particular. “Oh, wow: speed, efficiency, accuracy, confidence. The work flow is incredible. We can pop it on a DJI Matrice 600 and in 15 minutes, we’re airborne. And the data processing is smooth.” The change from Kinder’s early days with LiDAR “is really mind-boggling,” he mused. “When we had the man-based airborne system, we were really happy if we could get a shot per square meter on the ground. That was incredible data. Now we’re getting 500.” Meanwhile, rehabilitation continues. “This year, we’re going to finish up the last half-mile of restoration. We’ll do, probably, another 20-some fish habitat enhancement this summer—starting in two weeks, actually.” Annual RedTail overflights will monitor and compare the health of the stream. “Overall,” Kinder concluded, “it’s a labor of love. I wasn’t military but I see a lot of hurt and damaged people come and enjoy the environment. To be able to use this technology to really do a good job, and then blend in young people, learning GPS, learning how to do automated flights with drones, learning how to process that data and analyze it and come up with a restoration plan—there’s just a lot of vectors going on there. It’s a very personal satisfaction.”

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Cheat River Joins Monongahela River at Pt. Marion (North to the left).
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Photo taken at 12:22 pm, during the noon hour, on Saturday, April 11, 2020 by DGN. The Monongahela River is flowing from right to left, from West Virginia. The Cheat River is coming out of the background and under the bridge, Pt. Marion being across and to the right. Notice the obvious interface on the water. The Cheat River is clear and blue. The Monongahela River is contaminated, yellow - brown, with both suspended and dissolved solids. The specific conductivity being reported as 300 microsiemens per centimeter. These are typical conditions sometimes higher. Duane G. Nichols, CLEAR.

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Bald Eagles of Our Area .....
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 19 Mar '20

19 Mar '20

Marjorie Howard, an avid birder since 1995, said she first spotted a bald eagle in Greene County in 2003, while participating in a raptor survey. “It was flying around the Sycamore area,” said Howard. Howard also saw a nest along the road near Point Marion while doing a raptor survey this January. “I spotted two adults, one in the nest and the other on nearby on a tree, as well as two juveniles sitting on the ground on an island in the Cheat River,” she said. Sent from my iPad, DGN

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Living on Earth: Removing Dams in the Ohio River Watershed
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=20-P13-00011&segmentID=5 Removing Dams in the Ohio River Watershed Air Date: Week of March 13, 2020 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file The Summit Street Dam on the Mahoning River. (Photo: Jack Pearce, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0) Hundreds of thousands of small dams dot the rivers of the United States, and now that many are no longer economically useful, some are being removed in an effort to protect fish and riverine ecosystems. Julie Grant of the Allegheny Front reports on a dam removal project in the Ohio River watershed. Transcript CURWOOD: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Steve Curwood. Hundreds of thousands of small dams dot the rivers of the United States. They were once popular for use in grain mills and industry. And Many are no longer needed by people, but they continue to be a barrier to fish and wildlife. On the Mahoning River in Ohio the community of Lowellville is planning to remove a dam on their river but as Allegheny Front’s Julie Grant reports, not everyone is on board with the plan. GRANT: Growing up in the small Riverfront village of Lowellville, Ohio by the Pennsylvania border, Jim Iudiciani, and he stayed away from the Mahoning river. IUDICIANI: When I was a kid if I went near that river we get smacked because it was so dirty and dangerous. GRANT: Now as mayor of Lowellville, he's been pushing for years to get rid of the old steel industry dam, that crosses the river here, and he says it's coming down this summer. IUDICIANI: On the joking side, they call me the dam mayor and for good reason, finally. GRANT: Just steps from the village downtown Iudiciani and he stands alongside the river where brush has been cleared for heavy equipment needed to remove the dam, a series of eight low concrete piers that point downstream. It will be the first in a regional plan to remove nine dams along the Mahoning River, which crosses into Pennsylvania and joins the Shenango to form the Beaver River. Right now people who canoe and kayak on the Mahoning need to pull their boats out of the water and carry them around the dam. IUDICIANI: Where you see all the whiteness underneath. That's just the hydraulics, which makes it very dangerous. GRANT: Ohio regulators describe these low head dams as drowning machines because canoes and other boats can get trapped in a recirculating current below the dam. Once the Lowellville dam is removed Ludiciani wants his riverfront village to become a hotspot for outdoor recreation. He points out where a new park with space for canoes is planned. He talks about a new restaurant. IUDICIANI: bicycle shop, kayak rental. GRANT: a yoga studio and new living space. IUDICIANI: We're looking at four or five story buildings being built on the river possibly B and Bs and or condos with multi use parking underneath. Yeah, this whole thing is going to be a catalyst for us for development. GRANT: It's a far cry from the region steelmaking days. But even after most steel mills closed and Ohio EPA survey still found the effects of pollution in the river. DYER: They found fish with lesions and tumors on them. The macro invertebrate community was poor. GRANT: That's Stephanie Dyer, environmental program manager for the East Gate Regional Council of governments, the agency leading the Mahoning dam removal project. In the late 1990s, the US Army Corps of Engineers looked into dredging the river to get rid of contaminants especially behind the low head dams. But the Corps never move forward with its river cleanup. Then in the early 2000s in Ohio grant program assisted with dam removals on the nearby Cuyahoga River. The dams are being removed in the hopes of protecting wildlife, revitalizing the riverine ecosystem, and even promoting tourism. (Photo: Jack Pearce, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0) DYER: And that's when it started to click here at East Gate as well as within the region that we can do this on our own as a local community as a region. GRANT: According to East Gate, Lowellville and the cities of Struthers and Youngstown have secured more than $10 million to remove five dams with funding from the Ohio EPA and a settlement with LTV Corporation. That's about half of what's needed to remove all nine dams. DYER: This river built the valley. And so now it's time we all realized which we're doing is giving back to the river and creating the free flowing state it should be in right now. GRANT: But some communities don't want their dams taken down. ANTHONY: You know what? We just want to be left alone. GRANT: Edward Anthony is a trustee for Warren township a rural area 20 miles up river from Lowellville and home of the Leavittsburg dam. Local fire officials here say if their dam is removed, they won't have the pool of water it creates as a secondary source for emergencies. And health officials worry that without the damn water levels will be too low to dilute sewage from home septic systems. ANTHONY:So it's a grave concern because I think if they proceed with this, they're going to do this and then we're going to be left with a mess. GRANT: Looking down on the Mahoning at water flowing over the Leavittsburg dam resident Mike Arnold points across the river at what used to be in Ohio Edison facility. ARNOLD: That's where the power plant set. GRANT: The concrete dam was built to pool water for the plants but the electric company no longer uses it. ST. CLAIR: Directly behind that dam is 12 feet. GRANT: That's Russell St. Clair, who lives along the river which is almost like a lake behind the dam. ST CLAIR: Just about maybe 400 yards up the river it goes to eight foot. Then it goes to seven foot like behind our house. GRANT: St. Clair and his neighbor's float on pontoon boats and report seeing bald eagles and river otters. His kids and grandkids fish for muskie and perch. ST CLAIR: The river now is better than it's ever been. I mean it is. GRANT: Mike Arnold worries how the dam removal will affect fishing here. ARNOLD: There's nothing for them to eat, the fish will be gone. They can't survive in that kind of water. Lowellville in Northeast Ohio is home to the first dam being removed as a part of this project. (Photo: Stephanie Dyer) GRANT: But in Ohio EPA study in 2006 found that fish communities behind the dam and Leavittsburg and elsewhere along the Mahoning were impaired. And according to East Gate, it's not yet known how the dam removal will change water levels. Ben Lorson wants to calm people's fears. After dams are removed, the same amount of water will still run down the river. LORSON: And that's not going anywhere that'll always be there. GRANT: Lorson is a fish passage biologist with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. He says removing dams is better for fish. LORSON: There's kind of this misconception that you know you're taking the good fishing spot away. When in reality those fish want to go upstream. They're just not able to because the dams in their way. COLLIER: Oftentimes when it comes to aquatic organism passage we like to say if you unbilled it, they will come. GRANT: Jessica Collier is a fish biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She says one fish in particular that could return to the Ohio by removing dams in the watershed is the lake sturgeon. These behemoth ancient fish can live up to 150 years. They migrate long distances, sometimes hundreds of miles to spawn. The sturgeon is considered endangered in most states throughout its range. They were over fished their habitat was destroyed and their migration paths were blocked by dams. Collier points to the success of a large dam removal project in the Sandusky river that flows into Lake Erie. COLLIER: Within a couple months of dam removal there was a sturgeon that migrated up the river and it was the first time a sturgeon had been seen in that river system in maybe a century. GRANT: And in the Ohio removing dams is bringing back people too according to federal fish biologist Donovan Henry, who coordinates the Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership. HENRY: And pretty soon you have people kayaking and paddling and canoeing on these rivers has people using the river or making stops along the way to dine and shop so the community in the river start tying together and it does promote economic vitality. GRANT: Standing on the banks of the Mahoning Lowellville Mayor, Jim Iudiciani And he wants that future for his village but looking at the river roll over the dam today, he still sees beauty in it. IUDICIANI: Getting the surreal feeling sad feeling too that now it's coming out we're never going to see this again either, but it needs done. You know CURWOOD: Reporter Julie Grant’s story comes to us courtesy of the Allegheny Front and is part of the series, Good River, produced by seven nonprofit newsrooms in the Ohio Valley. For a link to the series, go to our website, LOE.org. Links Listen to this story on the Allegheny Front website

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Cheat Lake Dredging & Water Level
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

> Subject: Cheat Lake > > Hi all. Lake Lynn’s dredging project at Sunset Marina is complete and we expect Cheat Lake to begin rising over the next couple of days. Please share this news. > > Thanks, > __________________________________________________________________ > > Eagle Creek Renewable Energy > >

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Monongahela National Forest: Here's How You Hunt Ramps | West Virginia Public Broadcasting
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

https://www.wvpublic.org/post/monongahela-national-forest-heres-how-you-hun… Monongahela National Forest: Here's How You Hunt Ramps Brittany Patterson, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, March 6, 2020 As spring approaches, ramps are popping up across West Virginia. The Monongahela National Forest on Friday released guidelines for harvesting the wild onion. Collecting ramps is allowed in the Monongahela National Forest as long as it's for personal use. According to a U.S. Forest Service press release, individuals can harvest up to two gallons of ramps per person, or about the amount that fits in a plastic grocery bag. Harvesting for a business or commercial use is not allowed. The agency recommends only collecting ramps in patches with more than 100 plants and suggests taking only one-fifth of the plants in large clumps. This ensures the ramp patches can regenerate. Use small forks or hand trowels when digging ramp bulbs rather than large shovels. And after digging up a ramp, cover the bare soil with leaves to prevent invasive species from taking root, the release said. NOTE: The ramp leaves are my favorite part. When a few leaves are removed carefully (with a knife) the plant remains to grow and spread. Ramps multiply very well from one season to the next. DGN P.S. I propose we do some planting of ramps along the Cheat Lake trails and in the Wildlife Viewing Areas. The understory vegetation in these areas is currently meager. Do other plants come to mind? DGN

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WV-DEP hosts public hearing on Saint George Injection Well permit renewal | WBOY.com
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

https://www.wboy.com/top-stories/dep-hosts-public-hearing-on-saint-george-i… DEP hosts public hearing on Saint George Injection Well permit renewal Allen Clayton, WBOY News 12, March 5, 2020 PARSONS, W.Va. – West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection hosted a public hearing Thursday at the Tucker County Board of Education Auxiliary Gym regarding the Saint George underground injection well site after nearly fifteen hundred citizens signed a petition against allowing it. St. George underground injection well site. Residents were given an opportunity to review the underground injection control permit and ask questions to the DEP officials that were on hand. Pillar Energy, LLC operates a class two underground injection control facility that is currently seeking a permit renewal to inject class two fluids associated with oil and natural gas production. The fracking waste injection well is located along Horseshoe Run just before it enters the Cheat River. “The injection well could fail and the bad water come back up. An old water well is right next to it. So, there are multiple ways that the environment can be affected,” said Judy Rod, a member of Friends of Blackwater Friends of Blackwater stated their concerns were fracking fluid leaking into ground water, heavy traffic on narrow roads, exposure of chemicals and lining of the well that may allow contaminates to leak out. Bridge damaged due to heavy truck traffic. “It’s been there probably since 2003 as an injection site,” said Jeremy Hile, a farmer whose property is adjacent to the Saint George injection site. “There are times there has been a lot of traffic to it. Then you know they’ve used it for injecting a lot, and then, there are times that it’s set and they’ve not done much with it at all. The permit currently has expired and they have not done anything with it for a little while besides haul fluid from the tanks they were storing there. But just have concerns living beside of it that spills, and I’ve asked a question whether at 24,000 and 780 gallons as a potential permit amount that they, I thought, was the amount would be capped but they say there is really no cap on it that they could put down as much as they want to in a days’ time.” Residents did state that fracking fluid is working its way back up to the surface water and having an effect on the surrounding are around the site. DEP officials said the original permit was developed to ensure and protect human health and the environment. Saint George underground injection well meeting. “What we regulate on the well is the pressure that injectate is added to it not a volume,” said Dennis Stottlemyer, Deputy Environmental Advocate for the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. “The trucks have been going to the well for several years now, we don’t know that there will be an uptick in trucks and our permit boundry is the edge of the site, and the road is monitored by the public service commission and the department of highways. If there is a spill on site, the operator is required to notify us immediately and begin operations to clean-up that spill. The injectates are primarily salt water, very high in chlorides. Of course, you don’t want to come into contact with them, but I would say if you just flushed with water, you would be in good shape. Some of these fluids are monitored for radio activity, radio nuclei and in some cases, there are some very low concentrations of it.” Photograph of the Cheat River near Horseshoe Run in St. George. The permit conditions states that a class two well will be constructed, monitored, operated and tested to help ensure protection of underground sources of drinking water. Residents had 30 days to review and comment on the class two underground injection control draft permits. Original comment period on the underground injection control permit started December 16, 2019 and ended January 15, 2020.

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Sunset Beach Marina on Cheat Lake
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

Cheat Lake is currently at el. 867-ft. Lake Lynn Generation, LLG (Lake Lynn) will be drawing Cheat Lake down to about elevation 860-ft during the next week or so to accommodate the required dredging at the Sunset Beach Marina public boat launch. If things go as planned, we plan to begin excavating sediments from the boat ramp during the week of March 9. We must complete the work this month and have the lake back at el. 863-ft by April 1. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Note: Normal summer pool height is between 868 and 870_ft above sea level. The new owner of the Lake Lynn Generation is Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, a division of Ontario Hydro of Canada. DGN __________________________________________________________________ Jody Smet, AICP | Director, FERC Licensing and Compliance Eagle Creek Renewable Energy

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OPG acquires Cube Hydro; Cube to Merge with Eagle Creek | Eagle Creek Renewable Energy
by Duane Nichols via CLEAR 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

https://www.eaglecreekre.com/media/news/opg-acquires-cube-hydro-cube-merge-… OPG acquires Cube Hydro; Cube to Merge with Eagle Creek Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has finalized the acquisition of Cube Hydro Partners and Helix Partners (collectively "Cube Hydro"), an owner and operator of small and medium-sized hydropower facilities located in the northeast and southeast United States, from I Squared Capital, an infrastructure-focused private equity firm. Eagle Creek and Cube Hydro will be combined to form OPG's U.S. hydro platform. "The acquisition of Cube Hydro builds on our 2018 purchase of Eagle Creek Renewable Energy," said Ken Hartwick, OPG President and CEO. "These high quality, clean generation assets provide additional scale to OPG's existing U.S. hydro portfolio." "The Cube Hydro portfolio represents an attractive opportunity to enhance our hydro platform adding a team and assets that are well aligned with OPG's long-term growth strategy in the United States," said Eli Smith, President and CEO of OPG's U.S. hydro platform companies. "Cube Hydro prides itself on safety, compliance, innovation and social responsibility, all of which align closely with Eagle Creek and OPG's core values." Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as a financial advisor and Dentons served as legal counsel to OPG on the acquisition. Centerview Partners acted as financial advisor and Sidley Austin LLP, Troutman Sanders LLP, and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP served as legal counsel to I Squared Capital on this transaction. Key Facts on OPG's U.S. hydro platform: The Cube Hydro purchase adds 19 additional hydroelectric facilities in five states to OPG's hydro platform. This brings the total to 85 hydro generating stations in the United States, representing 619 megawatts of capacity. In addition, the companies own minority interests equivalent to approximately 10 megawatts in thirteen other hydroelectric facilities and two solar facilities in New England. Facilities are located across the United States primarily in the Southeast, New England, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest power markets. Offices are located in New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Massachusetts. OPG's U.S. hydro platform's environmental profile is well positioned for continued de-carbonization of the electricity industry. Enhanced returns for Ontarians, providing stable cash flows for generations to come, with no impact on electricity bills. The U.S. hydroelectric platform will continue to operate independently as a wholly owned subsidiary of OPG, with its own Board of Directors and management team. Its financial results will be consolidated into OPG's financial results. OPG is the largest electricity generator in the province, providing almost half the power Ontarians rely on every day. It is also one of the most diverse generators in North America with expertise in nuclear, hydro, biomass, solar and gas. NOTE: We are still Lake Lynn Hydro, LLC, but are now part of Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, instead of Cube Hydro. DGN

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