Electrical Transmission Planning
Whereas the production, transmission and distribution of electricity is a key part of the Northwestern Ontario economy, and
Whereas NOMA, Atikokan and the City of Thunder Bay have been interveners before the Ontario Energy Board on the matter of transmission plans for Northwestern Ontario, and
Whereas Hydro One Networks, on a request from the Ontario Minister of Energy has developed a plan for the upgrading and linking of transmission facilities in the Northwest, and
Whereas these same plans are referenced in the draft of the Grow North Plan,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that NOMA endorse the East of Nipigon to Pickle Lake line as outlined in the Northern Ontario Growth Plan conditional on the following:
1. The Little Jackfish hydro-electric project being approved and constructed; and
2. that the plan be modified to provide, at Hydro One Network’s expense, a transmission station or stations, designed to provide service to the Communities of Whitesand First Nation, Armstrong and Gull Bay First Nation; and
3. that the station be designed to provide sufficient power to upgrade the existing line from Beardmore to Longlac TS and Nakina and to power the future line to the Ring of Fire.
FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that the Pickle Lake to Ear Falls lines be upgraded and a Pickle Lake to Dryden 230KV line be constructed within the next ten years, as per the assessment by Hydro One Networks, and that the proposed construction of the Thunder Bay-Kenora and Nipigon-Wawa lines proceed as outlined in the Hydro One Network Plan, and
FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED THAT this resolution be sent to the following:
Premier of Ontario
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure
Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Hydro One
Ontario Power Authority
Ontario Energy Board
Area MPPs
Adopted by Board, January 2010
Adopted by membership, April 2010
