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BC-Yukon grid link will boost critical minerals mining: Pillai

Canada’s British Columbia and Yukon provinces have made at least verbal progress in long-delayed plans to create a grid interconnection that could boost the latter’s energy provision and therefore capacity to host major mining projects, according to top officials.

 Site C dam site, Fort St John, 2017 - credit:Jason Woodhead

Site C dam site, Fort St John, 2017 - credit:Jason Woodhead

Yukon governor Ranj Pillai met with BC minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, as well as Yukon MP Brendan Hanley and Yukon Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources John Streicker,...

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