Mr. Speaker, the project we're looking at on the Bear River would be about a 126 megawatt project. While that amount of power is more than enough to power the proposed needs of the pipeline and the communities, the communities would not be able to shut down, tear down and move away their diesel generators. They would have to keep it for backup, because in our climate we couldn't afford to have a hydro line go down, for example, and not have any alternative. So the diesel generated stations would stay there, but they would be used for backup or for times when, for example, there was maintenance work on the hydro station. But we could not displace them until we had a second alternative for power. Thank you.
Joe Handley on Question 255-15(3): Bear River Hydro Development
In the Legislative Assembly on October 19th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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