Public Notice

June 07, 2024 – Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada must determine whether the proposed project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.

To help inform this determination, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada is inviting comments from the public respecting that determination. All comments received will be considered public and may be posted online.

Written comments must be submitted by July 07, 2024 to contact identified on the project page.

The proposed project

New Fibre Installation

Slave Lake Communications plans to install underground fiber optic cabling, for Internet purposes, to all residential homes in the Slave Lake. The project involves the installation of approximately 77 km of underground fiber optic cable. The fibre will run down from 7 Street NE to Caribou Trail NW close to Sawridge 150G, to the intersection of Highway 88 south towards Highway 2 through Sawridge 150H until the point of presence located at 55.3673, 110.7304.

The cable is to be buried by directional drilling, trenching, or using existing conduits, or a combination of these methods in existing roadway alignments.