First Nation-owned power company aims to connect communities
Create: 01/12/2017 - 03:45
Wataynikaneyap Power is connecting 17 remote First Nation communities currently served by diesel generation to Ontario’s provincial electricity grid. The company held a meeting in North Spirit Lake on Nov. 9, where Franz Siebel, Research Director of Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) Research Institute, said that they hope to have a “final route” for the transmission project decided by summer 2017.
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