Hydro One’s plan to expand the Bruce-to-Milton transmission line is still a go.
Around 50 Kincardine and area business owners heard Enza Cancilla — Hydro One’s Manager of Public Affairs — deliver an update on the project at last night’s Energy Speakers Evening at the Best Western Governor’s Inn presented by the Kincardine and District Chamber of Commerce.
Cancilla says Hydro One has started Ontario Energy Board hearings and expects a decision will be made sometime late in the summer.
She says they are also going through their environmental assessment and hopes have an approval on that in 2009.
Cancilla says the company went through two days of hearings in Orangeville.
She expects to go through another 10 business days of hearings to deal with alternatives, land matters, and aboriginal consultations.
Cancilla also addressed the concerns brought on by property owners along the line especially those in Brockton, Hanover, and West Grey.
She says agents have been assigned to every affected property owner if they have issues they want to discuss.
Cancilla says they’ve been offered fair market value for their properties and believes they will happy with what is being offered.
The Bruce-to-Milton expansion will be able to take electricity from the Bruce A and B refurbishments and the Enbridge wind project.
But Cancilla says it won’t be enough to handle the energy produced from the potential Bruce C build.
