Electricity concerns are high on the list of many community leaders in the northwest.
Vice-president of the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association, Dave Canfield, told a provincial finance committee yesterday a northern energy plan is needed.
"There's a lot of mining activity and opportunities in northwestern Ontario," says Canfield, "but with the closure of the coal plants, there's going to be a short fall in energy as we move forward in some of these projects. There's going to be some upgrades, not only in the production, but in the grid as well."
Canfield says the current grids are inadequate and shouldn't be acceptable.
