CBC News - North - Too costly to hook up to northern B.C. power line: Yukon Energy

CBC News - North - Too costly to hook up to northern B.C. power line: Yukon Energy
Officials with Yukon Energy Corp. are keenly watching plans in the works for a hydroelectricity power line in neighbouring northern British Columbia, but say there's little chance the territory can capitalize on the emerging project.

On Friday, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell announced $10 million will go toward finalizing plans to build the Northwest Transmission Line, which will run 335 kilometres along Highway 37 from Terrace to Meziadin Junction and north to Bob Quinn Lake.

The line will link northern B.C. to the North American electricity grid — something Yukon Energy would like get to closer to, but officials say is not likely to happen.

"I think it would still be out of reach, or out of the question, to think that we could go from the Yukon down to Bob Quinn Lake," Yukon Energy spokeswoman Janet Patterson told CBC News on Friday.