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Lake Winnipeg Hearings Open in Winnipeg 13 March 2015

Lake Winnipeg
The Clean Environment Commission northern and rural tour for community consultations regarding regulation of Lake Winnipeg and the request for a final licence moved to Winnipeg March 9, 2015. The licence would be back dated under the Water Power Act, to 1976, and run for 50 years until a renewal is needed.

Three weeks of hearings are booked during March, with a return to the hearing in Winnipeg after Easter. During the January and February tour several sessions were held in First Nations communities.

Manitoba Hydro’s Panel presented its highlights from their formal filing during summer 2014. The utility’s position is that there are no impacts to the Lake from making Lake Winnipeg a reservoir for 40 years, and that all the impacts are downstream, north of Lake Winnipeg inside the hydro system.

All exhibits, reports, transcripts from the Lake Winnipeg Regulation hearing are posted on the CEC website.

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