Two hundred and fifty jobs in Nova Scotia, in the southern part of the province, are critical. I heard that when I was at the member's riding. The mayor, who was there, was very happy to see a project of this scale, the jobs that it will create and the opportunities that it creates in the local community.
The Progressive Conservative government in Nova Scotia is a strong supporter of this and took legislative action to enable the grid to be diversified beyond Nova Scotia Power, so that a project like this could feed in renewable electricity. They expect that will scale up with other projects around the province. Irrespective of which ridings, I think we're going to see a lot more activity there.
As I mentioned, the Canada Infrastructure Bank also supported the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick intertie, connecting the grids of those two provinces to enable some of this renewable electricity to move out of Nova Scotia and into New Brunswick and towards points to the west and potentially the south. I think there's great commercial opportunity in that.
Building all of this infrastructure means a significant number of jobs, which is a good thing—jobs that are building clean infrastructure. That's literally taking pollution out of Nova Scotia and replacing it with clean electricity.
A more resilient grid, more local production, cleaning up the environment and improving the climate mean a lot of wins are being delivered. I heard a lot of excitement around the jobs when I was there.