On CFAR’s City Beat Wednesday Mayor George Fontaine reported Council is in discussion with a Data Mining Group.  In order for New Decade to operate all of their computers they require a lot of water, electricity and land so Council is lobbying the provincial government to allow this as the province has a moratorium on these operations due to large electricity use and as well a lot of needed land in this community is still Crown land.  He said the company would provide computer training as well as in agriculture as they produce a lot of heat in their computer cooling system……

“and in doing that they radiate a lot of heat and the heat could be used and what their plan is is to use the heat for greenhouses.  They would have us be the garden of the north here if we’re allowed to go ahead so that’s something we want to deal with.  We could have a large agriculture system here where we are shipping food from the north to the south.  It would be a different kind of situation than the province is used to so we’d love to be a part of that.”

On another topic Fontaine assured the community Council is committed to the new pool but still need answers to a few questions before confirming the plan.