The Governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories have announced funding that will help the proposed Taltson expansion move forward. Given that this project is a key part of our 20 Year Strategic Plan, ongoing progress is great news for us all.
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On January 7, 2019 NTPC presented its 20 Year Strategic Plan publicly for the first time when Colin Steed and Jay Grewal appeared before Yellowknife City Council. Council also received presentations from Andrew Stewart, Director of Energy Infrastructure with the GNWT, on the proposed expansion at Taltson and from the Chair of the Public Utilities Board on the regulatory process.
There was extensive media coverage on these presentations and I want to share some of it with you. The initial article contained major factual errors, some of which we have been able to correct in subsequent stories.
Over the coming months, we will continue to roll out the strategic plan to employees as well as to customers and other stakeholders to help them understand the steps we are taking to reduce the gap between electricity rates in the NWT and the Canadian national average. As we have told you in the past, there is no immediate quick fix. We need to successfully execute on the 20 Year Strategic Plan in order to achieve our goal and ensure that customers don’t have to choose between buying groceries or paying the electric bill.
Here is a link to the presentation.
Here is a link to the media coverage.
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The January 2019 edition of the all-Canadian Health, Wellness, and Safety Newsletter is here! Inside this month’s issue you'll find articles on safe use of portable generators, maximizing your productivity, dealing with bad safety attitudes, roadside worker safety and much more. Have a read!
The newly-elected Mayor of Inuvik, Natasha Kulikowski, toured our plant on December 11. She followed up on this tour by posting the following on her Facebook page:
"This afternoon I attended a meeting followed by a tour of the NTPC plant here in Inuvik. I love these kinds of tours, it is incredibly eye opening and I find it very interesting to see how the facilities that we depend on actually work. As someone who comes from the office world seeing engineering at work can be somewhat dumbfounding, but getting to meet the people who make it all work on a daily basis takes some of the mystery out of it.
Thanks to Mike Ocko for the tour and thanks you to all the folks I met along the way for welcoming me into your workplace."
Strong relationships with community leaders are critical to our long-term success and we look forward to building on our relationship with Mayor Kulikowski.