The Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association is asking the Province to not abandon it's plans for new transmission lines in Northwestern Ontario.
President Anne Krassilowsky says they want to see the east of Nipigon to Pickle Lake line move forward as outlined in the Northern Growth Plan.
"Northwestern Ontario has very old transmission lines that are not up to the strength they need to be," says Krassilowsky, "nor have they been upgraded since the 1940's. It means we do need energy as an economic tool in the northwest and we certainly need it to allow expansion of manufacturing or creation of new job opportunities in the north."
NOMA is asking the plan be modified to provide service to Whitesand First Nation, Armstrong and Gull Bay First Nation.
