wiredInUSA August 2017

EDITOR

A high voltage power line running under Lake Erie has won approval from Canada’s National Energy Board after two years of review. The $1bn, 117km-long cable is being built by Michigan- based ITC between Nanticoke on southwestern Ontario’s Lake Erie shore across the lake to Erie, Pennsylvania, and will be ready for commercial use in 2021, when it will carry power between Ontario and 13 USA states. For the full story, turn to page 9. The final splice has been completed on the only direct POP to POP submarine cable system between São Paulo, Brazil, and New York. Seabras-1 is due to become operational this month and is owned by Seabras Group, operating from offices in the US and Brazil. See page 10 for the full details. A 44-day strike at Chile’s Escondida – the world’s largest copper mine – has hit production, which dropped 63 percent in the first quarter of the year. The full story, on page 11, gives details of how copper production fell from 265,597 tonnes in 2016 to 97,103 tonnes for the same period this year.

David Bell Editor

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wiredInUSA - August 2017