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Article: New Brunswick, Canada
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- Area Development Site and Facility Planning
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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DOING BUSINESS IN...
While stories about dot.com crashes abound, Canada's largest Maritime Province is making its own news, quietly building one of North America's most successful technology-based economies.
JUST AS THE approaching summer season shifted U.S. attention from the high cost of electricity to the escalating price of gasoline, two Canadian companies announced their plan to develop a marine transmission network that would connect electricity generation in New Brunswick directly to consumers in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. At an anticipated cost of $2-3 billion to Atlantic Energy Partners, LLC, the Neptune Project is a regional, 4,800-megawatt (MW) ...