Point Tupper Generating Station

The Point Tupper Generating Station is a 150 MW Canadian electrical generating station located in the community of Point Tupper in Nova Scotia's Richmond County.A thermal generating station, Point Tupper was opened in 1973 by then-provincial Crown corporation Nova Scotia Power Corporation on Peebles Point on the Strait of Canso immediately south of the community of Point Tupper. It was originally designed to burn oil, later coal.OilIt was designed to burn fuel oil imported through a deep-water supertanker terminal 1km south at Wright Point that served a recently opened oil refinery operated by Gulf Oil.