The Maritime Link is a transmission system that includes 180-kilometre subsea cables that will deliver hydroelectric power from Cape Ray in Newfoundland to an area near Point Aconi in Cape Breton. The $1.52-billion Maritime Link is just one component of the larger Muskrat Falls project - worth $7.7 billion - that includes building an 824-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the Lower Churchill River in Labrador and a 1,100-kilometre transmission link to the island of Newfoundland called the Labrador-Island Transmission Link.

Who?

Newfoundland's Nalcor Energy and Nova Scotia's Emera Inc. are partners in the Muskrat Falls megaproject.

A new, Emera-owned company called NSP Maritime Link Inc. has been incorporated to apply to the province's regulator, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, and ask it to approve capital spending of between $1.52 billion and $1.58 billion on the Maritime Link.

In 2017, the power company will apply to the regulator for permission to charge back the cost of the Maritime Link to ratepayers in Nova Scotia. Emera estimates electricity rates will rise by one per cent in each of the five years from 2018 to 2022 to pay for the Maritime Link.

Where?

Map: Government of Nova Scotia

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