The mayor of a small B.C. community says the municipality will not cover the electricity bill for new highway streetlights in its jurisdiction, and that the province should be footing the bill instead.
Mayor Merlin Blackwell of Clearwater, about 111 kilometres north of Kamloops, says B.C. Hydro asked the district to foot the electricity bill for newly installed streetlights on the part of Highway 5 that runs through Clearwater.
The power authority made the request after discovering neither the municipality nor the province had paid the bills for the old streetlights.
New LED streetlights were installed earlier this year as part of B.C. Hydro’s plan to replace more than 90,000 streetlights in the province that use bulbs with toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), by the
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