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A Manitoba government agency has approved the corridor for a proposed 500-kV electricity transmission network that would carry power from the province's massive hydroelectric projects to the U.S. border at Minnesota.
The Clean-Environment Commission recommended that a Class 3 environmental license be issued for the Manitoba-Minnesota Transmission Project, subject to 16 conditions that range from including Indigenous people in historical resource surveys to providing vegetation screens along the right-of-way for landowners. The report, released Oct. 10, will be forwarded to the National Energy Board, the federal energy regulator, which must approve all electricity export projects....