Hastings County has thrown its support behind the Marmora Pumped Storage Project to provide electricity.
Warden Rick Phillips told council on Monday that the project would benefit all the county municipalities and beyond those borders.
He added he hopes it is moving in the right direction.
Phillips noted it has the support of Hastings-Lennox and Addington MPP Daryl Kramp.
“Tourism-wise, economic-wise – jobs. It will open up that corridor of Highway 7 through there and benefit all of us.”
The municipality of Marmora and Lake says the project would be a large scale, fast response, multi-function electricity asset.
In a resolution on the issue presented to county council on Monday, Marmora indicated it would also become a major economic development platform for the municipality, creating up to 1,000 jobs during the four year construction period.
Marmora and Lake council first supported the project eleven years ago.
This latest motion indicates Ontario has a “capacity gap for the coming decade and the federal government has introduced a significant carbon emission reductions target by 2030.”
The municipality says the Marmora Pumped Storage project would be a large scale, fast response, multi-function electricity asset.
The proposal indicates it has the prospect of becoming a provincial and federal eco-tourism asset.
