Overview
This Project offers profound potential economic, environmental and recreational benefits to our community, both locally and regionally. The Project would provide direct employment benefits during construction and operations, as well as long-term dividend benefits that would be reinvested in the community. Investments may take the form of new business investments; funding for training and various social and environmental programs; local entrepreneurial funding opportunities; and/or other investments approved by TRTFN. In addition, the Project would provide a significant injection to the local tax base. No matter what investments are made, local employment would increase. The Atlin Hydro Expansion Project would also benefit the Yukon by helping to meet the Yukon’s clean-energy shortfall. More broadly, the Project benefits the North through supporting our collective goal of reducing greenhouse gases – these emissions would be reduced by approximately 27,400 tonnes annually.
