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Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Plant

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In 2006, Big Beckie, then the largest tunnel boring machine on Planet Earth, bored a new tunnel for the plant.

Both Ontario and New York State have hydroelectric generating plants, to harness the power of the Niagara River, and the Beck hydroelectric plant is the plant on the Ontario side.[1]

In 2006 Ontario Hydro used Big Beckie to bore a 10.6 kilometres (6.6 mi) tunnel from inlets on the Upper Niagara to the generating plant.[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alex Hutchinson (April 2012). "New energy in Niagara: How a giant hole will help Ontario's shift away from fossil fuels". Canadian Geographic. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2016-01-31. The Ontario government finally gave the go-ahead in 2004; the billion-dollar design-build contract was awarded to Strabag in 2005; Big Becky was built from scratch in 12 months, and began tunnelling in September 2006. And then the trouble started.
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