Terrace Standard Editorial - Go green

Terrace Standard - Go green
IT’S BEEN a mystery as to why Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose a visit to Washington D.C. last September as the place to announce he’s willing put up to $130 million into the much-planned Northwest Transmission Line running up Hwy37 North.

But consider that American President Barack Obama wants to put billions into ‘green’ power and then look at a map.

As now planned, the Northwest Transmission Line would stop at a place called Bob Quinn on Hwy37 North. Barely 95 kilometres to the west sits the Alaskan Panhandle, a location hydro-electric proponents say contains 3,000 megawatts of viable projects. That’s roughly one-third of B.C. Hydro’s entire output.