Power line goes to review, Vancouver Sun

Power line goes to review
A proposed $404-million power line would create "major" economic opportunity including mining and renewable power projects in northwest British Columbia, according to BC Transmission Corp.

The Crown agency says in a new submission to the B.C. environmental assessment office that the impact on forests, fish and wildlife from construction of a 335-kilometre Northwest Transmission Line are not generally not significant with the exception of clearing of old-growth cedar in some areas along the route.

The 287-kilovolt line would run between the Terrace substation to Bob Quinn Lake, roughly following the Highway 37 corridor, in a 38-metre-wide right of way.