Manitoba is blessed with a "common sense" natural route to bring Manitoba's Hydro Electric from the North to the South... Manitoba's great north - south Lakes, Lake Winnipeg (north and south basins), Lakes Winnipegosis and Lake Manitoba, are natural highways to bring Manitoba's abundant Hydro Electric power to the south...  The technology certainly exists in this day and age...  I'm sure any engineering student worth his/her salt at the U of M can gather the facts and see the clearly evident benefits of running Hydro Lines under the Lakes instead of going via either "on land" route...

Manitoba Liberal leader Jon Gerrard is a strong advocate of this, as am I, because with a little long term foresight cable can be lain that will make Manitoba a leader in "green" Hydro Electric for many generations to come and at a cost comparable, if not in fact favourable, to either the west or east on land option...

Remember what was said about "Duff's Ditch" way back when?  Aren't you glad NOW? So why have Manitoban's regressed from being visionary and doing the "smart thing", being "leading edge", being the envy of our neighbours to the south, in something this important?  Speaking about "Duff's Ditch", if it had been me expanding the floodway I'd have added dozens, if not hundreds, of windmills to generate electricity along the entire floodway route, they have windmills in the ocean you know and it's not like the windmills along/in a big ditch would bother anyone or be taking up valuable farm land where you have to pay for a lease, but that's just me thinking "outside the box" again I guess...

One more thing, by making sure that the "cable" is adequately sized to be able to handle more and more capacity as it comes "onstream" from future mega Hydro Projects in Manitoba's North many billions of future dollars can be saved for all Manitobans for many generations to come...

Don't make it "political", just do the SMART thing this time...   

Dear Canadian TaxpayersI farm west of Portage La Prairie Manitoba and Bi Pole3 is coming on our land there is absolutely no way that this should be happening to agriculture land in this provincethey should be putting this hydro under groundso that the spray planes will be able to spray everyones crops because having these hydro poles above ground the spray planes will not be able to spray our crops because these hydro poles are too huge to manover around and too dangerous,we also live beside Agrium Fertilizer Plant which is located down the Trans Canada Highwaywhich is also another danger point if something was to happened to the train track that goes beside Agrium Fertilizer plantlike if one of these huge wires was to land on the tracks because of a huge windstorm and wreck the switches on the train track and derails a train every one going down the Trans Canada Highway would be affected by the fumes coming from the fertilizer plant.These huge wires will also wreck your water pumps in a lightning storm and will also wreck irregation systems also .We also have rouge around these hydro poles because we are in the pedigreed seed businessand world health organization said if you have to work around these hydro poles for a short period of time these hydro poles will affect your nervous system and if we dont rouge around these hydro poles for noxious weeds you can be put out of businessand there goes your income.We also live in torandoe alley were we see more torandoes are on the west side of lake winnipegthan the east side of lake winnipeg does which is also very dangerous.We also have more carbou herds on the west side of lake winnipeg  and I was told the other day that the carbou herds on the east side will soon be exstinct,and the aborginals on the east side of the lake would like roads so that they can go places and there food doesnt have to be hauled in by airplanes ,and trucks on makeshift roads which is very dangerous the government needs to listen to the aborginals and the farmers we are the people who supply the food to everyone not the stores it comes from the hard working farmers in this province.When RoseAnne WoWChuck the other day called us 2 class citizens that wasirresponsible of her reckless and discrimination to the hard working farmers of this province and the farmers will not be treated that way because we are the ones that put the food on the tables and if you dont have the farmers everyone will starve .It will cost every Manitoba family$7,000.00 more for hydro if it goes on the west side of lake Winnipeg compared to the East side of Lake Winnipegto the United States of America,so please send the hydro on the east side of lake winnipeg it will cost less for every taxpayer in this province.less if it does go that way.Manitoba hydro employees dont want this hydro to go on the west side of lake Winnipeg because they even said it wasnt safe to go this way it is the NDP Government that is forcing them to go this way .Even Garry Doer said that it would be cheaper to go down the east side of Lake Winnipeg before he left for the United States.

                                                                Thankyou

                                                                 Sincerly

                                                                  Pam Pugh

ps These hydro poles will also devalue your land also.

which no one wants to happen neither.

Saying that the west line option is $1B more expensive is misleading, and saying that it is more environmentally damaging is an outright lie.  

You guys are such tools.