The bill also facilitates construction 24 hours a day, accelerates property acquisitions and exempts the planned Highway 413 project from the provincial Environmental Assessment Act.

Construction is underway on the 928-suite multi-residential apartment development.

Once built, the line is expected to bring an additional 350 megawatts of clean electricity to the northwest – enough to power the city of Thunder Bay twice over.

More than $13.8 million of the funding is being provided to build a 12-acre, 8-million-litre biofuel terminal in Port Colborne.

The 16-metre-deep launch shaft will be the starting point for two tunnel boring machines that will dig six kilometres east.