Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Matthew Shoemaker is sounding a battle cry after learning all of Ontario’s new power generation will be going to southern Ontario for the next six years.
Shoemaker says he’s been advised that the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) won’t allow the Sault or other northern communities to participate in the current long-term request for proposals for generating capacity.
This decision, he says, is being attributed to “deliverability issues.”
“What the IESO is telling us is: all the new generation is going to be in southern Ontario,” Shoemaker says.
“What we’re saying is: like heck it is.”
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