Eight communities see economic development opportunity in transmission projects
Eight First Nations along the north shore of Lake Huron want to be development partners with Hydro One in any future power line construction on their shared traditional territory.
Last October, the Independent Electricity System Operator released a report identifying the electricity needs to support growing industrial demand for power in the Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury area over the next decade. One involves a 75-kilometre, 230-kilovolt transmission line that will run from the Mississagi Transformer Station, west of Sudbury, to the Third Line Transformer Station in Sault Ste Marie.
In a statement, Batchewana First Nation Chief Mark McCoy views this opportunity as “self-determination through economic development.”
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