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THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2024
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BC HYDRO TO SPEND $500M ON SEA TO SKY INFRASTRUCTURE
The project list includes upgrades to dams, substations and transmission as energy demand spikes in the next decade BRENT RICHTER
North Shore News
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PHOTO BY INDIGO LEMAY-CONWAY/FOR THE SQUAMISH CHIEF
STUDYING SQUAMISH: Students from Japan’s Shimizucho High School spent a week in town, with MLI, a branch of Muskoka Language International. They got to have a crash course in what it is like to live in Squamish, including hikes and ice cream downtown.
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• Multi dwelling residential opportunity on a 35,500 sqft lot on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Garibaldi Estates. • Two original buildings, plus dbl garage • $2,050,000
38285 MYRTLEWOOD CR.
• Cozy renovated rancher with 3 bedrooms. • Updates include Roof, Windows, Gas Fireplace, New Paint. • Lots of storage with a separate storage shed & plenty of yard space for the garden • $1,275,000
C Hydro is spending more than $500 million on infrastructure to keep the juice flowing and lights glowing as demand for electricity surges on the North Shore and in the Sea to Sky. The public utility, along with Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation Minister Josie Osborne, made the announcement Wednesday at the new, nearly complete Capilano Substation in North Vancouver. Among the projects the cash is earmarked for: $300 million for seismic and reliability upgrades at the Cheakamus Dam between Squamish and Whistler, $120 million to replace and upgrade substations that are reaching the end of their service lives in Lynn Valley, Squamish and Pemberton, new transmission lines connecting the Maplewood industrial waterfront and Deep Cove to BC Hydro’s substation near the Second Narrows, voltage conversion upgrades serving Norgate and the British Properties, plus 10 kilometres of POWER: Continued on 2
NEW PRICE 1839 GARDEN PLACE
• Bring your decorating ideas! • 3-4 bedroom family house situated on a cul-de-sac. *Suite potential • Private yard, new roof and furnace • $1,169,000
#200-1455 Bellevue Avenue, West Vancouver, BC, V7T 1C3