Around the North

Brookfield Renewable Power has approved the sale of 15 hydroelectric plants to Great Lakes Hydro Income Fund. Brookfield's board of directors finalized the $945 million deal July 6. The plants have an installed capacity of 387 megawatts.

Producing an easy-to-use website for taxpayers and potential investors is behind Sioux Lookout's strategy to branding the municipality as the 'Hub of the North.

Road infrastructure bucks are being earmarked to improve a major traffic artery in Sault Ste. Marie's north end. The City of Sault Ste. Marie received $877,500 to resurface lanes of Second Line from North Street to Great Northern Line (Highway 17).

Prospectors, environmentalists, lodge owners and Northerners can give Ontario politicians an earful on the amendments to the Mining Act (Bill 173) and the McGuinty government's Far North Act (Bill 191).

Despite initial projections, the seasonally adjusted rate of housing starts across Canada rose in June 140,700 units, up from 130,300 units in May, according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. A 3.

Temex Resources Corp. has earned a 60 per cent interest in the Whitney Township Property from Porcupine Gold Mines (PGM) after completing $4 million in exploration. PGM, a joint venture between Goldcorp Inc. and Goldcorp Canada Ltd.

Lake Shore Gold drills turn up more gold Lake Shore Gold Corp. improved its hopes for a second mining operation to accompany its Timmins Mine in the Timmins camp after results from nearly 12,600 metres of drilling came back golden.

Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse has been re-elected to serve a second three-year term by the Chiefs in Assembly at an All Ontario Chiefs Conference held in Batchewana on July 8.

Late last week, the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce elected a new chair of the board and executive council for its 2009-10 fiscal year.

Thunder Bay's Venshore Mechanical Ltd. has taken the wraps off two new fuel off-loading modules built for a client in the oil sands of western Canada.