Communities in Canada looking to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels

An off-grid community goes solar, and gets closer to its roots

One of the last communities in the N.W.T. to get electricity is becoming a model for other Northern communities looking to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.

Colville Lake, pop. 160 and roughly 50 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, only got its first power plant in the early 1990s.


Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation enters the power business

The Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation, an isolated community in the Northwest Territories, is celebrating becoming the first independent power producer in all three territories.