Manitoba Hydro is scaling back work and suspending travel to one of its biggest sites in the province, in an effort to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Hydro announced they will suspend all operations of the Keeyask project construction site by the end of the day on Saturday, March 21.
President and CEO Jay Grewal says the reduction of personnel follows guidelines from Manitoba Health and could last anywhere from four to eight weeks.
Approximately 600 supervisory, construction and support staff have volunteered to remain on-site, and will focus on achieving the in-service date for the hydroelectric station’s first two generating units.