Bill Marshall, the president and chief executive officer of the New Brunswick System Operator, has been a vocal supporter of a national grid and in May lobbied for it at a House of Commons committee on natural resources.
``To me it now has more of a national interest because it can help get low emission greenhouse gas energy sources across Canada rather than having all of it flow south into the U.S.,''said Marshall, who is in charge of ensuring the reliability of the province's transmission system.
A national grid would allow provinces to take advantage of environmentally friendly power projects by making the economics more appealing, Marshall said.
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"It will get built like highways, it will get built in pieces," he said. "I think what is required is the federal government to say we are willing to provide funding for infrastructure."
[The Premiers &/or natural resources Ministers across the entire country, and from all politcal parties (PC, Lib, NDP) are interested in this idea! Except for health & education, WHAT ELSE IS THERE SO MUCH AGREEMENT ON?! The federal natural resources Minister, Gary Lunn (& my MP for the entire time he's been in politics btw) doesn't seem interested in taking the lead on this. Neither does the National Energy Board. -- NSay]
{Editor's note - no link to story found :( DrC}
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 7, 2007]
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va