The City of West Kelowna mayor and council attended the annual Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) to once again to stress the urgency for a secondary power source.
Councillors continued to express concern with the slow progress in providing a redundant power transmission system to serve the over 70,000 people who would be affected from the single transmission line outage. Although identifying that the redundant system will now tie into the FortisBC system in Kelowna, council is concerned the timeline for the financing and construction remains unreasonably long.
The Minister and BC Hydro committed to considering where the timeline could be compressed, particularly with consideration of the increased risk, frequency and severity of wildfires on the Westside.
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