In an update to Saugeen Shores councillors Nov. 11, Christopher Mercanti, Bruce Power's Manager of Community and Indigenous Relations, said when the Major Component Replacement program begins in January there will be an immediate need for 500-plus additional workers.

When Bruce Power begins the $13 billion private investment Major Component Replacement (MCR) program in January, a good 500- plus people will be needed immediately according to Christopher Mercanti, Bruce Powers Manager of Community and Indigenous Relations in a Nov. 11 update to Saugeen Shores councillors.

Bruce Power said the MCR, a $13 billion private investment in the Life Extension program, will create and sustain 22,000 direct and indirect jobs annually, and inject $4 billion into the Ontario economy.

Saugeen Shores Coun. Jami Smith, a Bruce Power Corporate Services employee, said they are looking forward to welcoming the new workers, and asked when the peak demand for labour may be..

Mercanti, counting down 66 days to the MCR, said in January there will be several hundred more workers on site doing prep work, but the real influx doesnt really start until next spring into next summer 2020 he said, adding there would be at least 500 more people on site immediately when they start in January.

Mercanti said continued improvements in operational performance included a record-setting 361 of continuous operation for Unit 1, additional megawatt production, and a historic agreement with Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) to collaborate to market medical isotopes.

This medical isotope is used in the treatment of prostrate cancer, and were looking at other isotopes that can be exposed to our neutron fields, and get to market and help treat others cancers such, as breast cancer Mercanti said.

Mercanti said community engagement efforts included awarding 100 Grey-Bruce-Huron students each with $500 scholarships; scholarships to 12 local Indigenous students in partnership with Indspire; the record-setting 6,200 visitors who took the Bruce Power bus tour this past summer; and continued support to Saugeen Memorial Hospital which included $50,000 annually in the past four years; and the Gran Fondo

Saugeen Shores Deputy Mayor Don Matheson thanked Bruce Power for all it does.

The world is an oyster and it is going to open up to us in January with the MCR, so I look forward to all the great wonderful things that will come out of that. he said.

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