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LNG FIBRE OPTIC CONNECTION

Building economic capacity, and promoting, There’s also the $777-million East-West Tie
attracting, and support growth: it’s the Alpha and transmission project, a proposed 450 km double-

Omega of the Council’s priorities. As a member of circuit 230 kV transmission line connecting the

the North Shore LNG Project, the Town of Marathon Lakehead Transfer Station in the Municipality of
is proposing to deliver Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Shuniah near the city of Thunder Bay to the Wawa

to home and businesses in the area though local Transfer Station located east of the Municipality
infrastructure in each participating Municipality. of Wawa. It will also connect to the Marathon

Transformer Station.

Currently awaiting approval from the Ontario Energy
Board (OEB), for the North Shore communities Given the Green Light in January, 2019, construction

of Lake Superior, LNG has the potential to bring officially began in October, 2019. The project is

significant social, economic and environmental expected to have an average daily workforce of
benefits for residents and businesses and address about 230 and 700 at the peak of construction.

the high cost of energy in rural communities.

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