Manitoba moves ahead with plans to protect Manitoba Hydro winnipegsun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from winnipegsun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On Friday of last week, former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall released his independent investigation into the approval and construction of the Bipole III hydro line and the Keeyask generating project.
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The threshold for a provincial referendum is not yet clear, though Pallister said if the public utility wanted to move on from Centra Gas, it would require a vote from the public.
The Wall Report detailed 85 findings and 69 recommendations coming out of his investigation into the two projects which cost a combined $13.4 billion, $3.7 billion over budget.
The report found the two projects were not required to meet the energy needs of Manitobans, rather it was motivated entirely by potential sales to the U.S. which dried up with the expansion of domestic energy sources like natural gas fracking. The government at the time pushed forward despite the change in the market with the view that hydro energy could be “Manitoba’s Oil.”
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