Transmission Lines

• SaskPower looks to make province ‘energy powerhouse’ with new transmission lines

  SaskPower's new multi-billion-dollar project hoping to make Sask. more independent and an energy exporter by making one power grid for the province through transmission lines.

  Canada

  Feb 23
  
• ‘Significant cost barriers’: NB Power questions viability of Atlantic Loop project

  The utility's latest strategic report says there may be other more efficient and cost-effective ways of greening the province's grid.

  Environment

  Aug 3, 2023
  
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• Edmonton business owners charged up, frustrated over new transmission lines

  The work is related to EPCOR's Strathcona Area Transmission Upgrade.

  Canada

  Nov 14, 2019
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• New transmission line to cause traffic delays from Pasqua to Swift Current

  Some traffic delays are expected in the coming weeks as SaskPower works on the new Pasqua to Swift Current transmission line.

  Canada

  Jan 7, 2019
• Hydro construction forces partial closure of Islington and Kipling Station parking lots

  Parking lots at Islington and Kipling stations will be partially closed over the next month and a half due to hydro construction in the area.

  Canada

  Sep 25, 2017
• BC Hydro proposed new cycling and pedestrian bridge for Grandview Cut

  Cyclists and pedestrians in East Vancouver could soon have a new way to cross the Grandview Cut.

  Aug 28, 2017
• 6,000 customers left without power after vandals cut down BC Hydro poles in Surrey

  BC Hydro says four poles, carrying a 60,000-volt transmission line running through the Green Timbers area of Surrey, were cut down.

  Apr 13, 2016
• Canadian rivers eyed as solution to US Northeast’s high energy prices

  In review or under construction are five large-scale hydropower proposals that could pump thousands of megawatts from Quebec's rivers and reservoirs into the U.S. Northeast.

  Canada

  Aug 2, 2015
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• Life-threatening vandalism grounds helicopter

  A helicopter that was being used to construct new transmission lines in central Alberta was vandalized over the weekend, and several critical parts of the chopper were stolen.

  Crime

  Oct 20, 2014