Manitoba talks east-west power grid; says it has clean energy to help neighbours
REGINA — Manitoba’s energy minister is recharging the idea of building an east-west power transmission grid and says the federal government needs to help.
Cliff Cullen told the Energy Council of Canada’s western conference on Tuesday that Manitoba has “a really clean resource that we’re ready to share with our neighbours” as new hydro generation projects come online.
“This is a really important time to have that discussion about the reliability of energy and how we can work together to make that happen,” said Cullen, minister of growth, enterprise and trade.
“And, clearly, an important component of that is the transmission side of it. We’ve been focused on transmission … north and south, and we haven’t had that dialogue about east-west.”