A plan to install solar panels on some municipal buildings in Fort Frances is getting approval from town councillors.
Mayor Roy Avis says the $375-thousand project is an asset for the community for the future.
"I know that people are quite skeptical when you get paid 80 cents per kilowatt hour and your only getting charged 5 cents on your power bill," says Avis, "but that's the legislation that government has in place at the present time."
The panels will go on the roofs of the Memorial Sports Centre, public works building, daycare centre and water treatment centre.
A plan to put them on the sewage treatment plant was scrapped but it was deemed the building was suitable for the panels.
