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February 13, 2013 | Volume 11 Number 7

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Premier Clark announces second power line for Peachland area ERIN CHRISTIE EDITOR

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PREMIER CHRISTY CLARK announces that BC Hydro

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plans to install a secondary line that will provide power to West Kelowna and Peachland, during a press conference held at the West Bank substation on Shannon Lake Road on February 5. Beside Clark for the announcement are Peachland Mayor Cindy Fortin and BC Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald.

It’s taken seven years, but Peachland’s pleas for a second electricity transmission line for the area have finally been acknowledged. Premier Christy Clark announced that BC Hydro would build the new line, which will serve West Kelowna and Peachland, during a press conference held at the Westbank substation on February 5. The announcement comes in the wake of the November snowstorm that left 22,000 BC Hydro customers without power for nine hours, following a fire atop one of the poles that support the 138-kilovolt transmission line that runs 80 km from Merritt to a substation near Shannon Lake. West Kelowna and Peachland are currently powered by an existing 138-kilovolt-transmission line that runs from the Nicola substation near Merritt to the substation in West Kelowna. It travels through remote, heavily wooded terrain where wildfire risk during the summer months is high. Though BC Hydro has made improvements to the existing transmission system in the area in recent years, an extensive feasibility review by BC Hydro determined it more prudent to upgrade the network now. In her remarks, Clark, who was accompanied by BC Hydro’s president and CEO Jessica McDonald, Peachland Mayor Cindy Fortin, Penticton-Peachland MLA Dan Ashton and West Kelowna Mayor Doug Findlater, as well as members of the District of West Kelowna, told the audience the decision to add the second line is a result of the growing infrastructure in the region. “Infrastructure has to keep the pace,” she explained. See FORTIN SAYS on page 2

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