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LETTERS: IRAC shouldn't approve Maritime Electric plan and other letters

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04.09.2026

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LETTERS: IRAC shouldn't approve Maritime Electric plan and other letters

IRAC shouldn’t approve Maritime Electric plan

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Regarding Maritime Electric’s application to IRAC for approval to install two diesel turbines in Charlottetown; this is clearly not the best way to deliver safe and reliable service to Islanders. As Peter Bevan-Baker says, “We are asked to commit to an unproven machine, from a sole vendor against whom no one was invited to compete, at a price that has moved twice, arriving a year later than promised, carrying a one-year warranty, on a schedule whose central justification has evaporated, with the risk of stranding,........

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