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Concerns are growing over a plan to shut off power in nearly a dozen communities across the Similkameen and Kootenay-Boundary regions of British Columbia to reduce wildfire risk. FortisBC is launching a new initiative it calls the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS).The power giant says it will initiate the PSPS during extreme weather such as extreme heat and powerful wind events to reduce the chance of trees and branches making contact with live powerlines and igniting fires.However, the initiative has many people, including residents, business owners in affected communities and local governments, expressing some serious concerns.Some of those concerns were brought up on Thursday at the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen’s (RDOS) board meeting, where Fortis representatives outlined the plan.“I’m sorry. It’s not acceptable,” Princeton mayor Spencer Coyne told Fortis at the RDOS meeting. 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But you also forget where we’re coming from,” a concerned Coyne said. “”We’re not going to have water. We’re not going to have medical services. We’re not going to have gasoline.“Our refrigerators and our freezers are going to go down, and we’re going to lose our food.  We won’t have a restaurant to go to.  We won’t have a restaurant to go to. Like has any of this been taken into consideration?” 2:13 FortisBC to try proactive power shutoffs in some Southern Interior wildfire situations In Keremeos, another affected community, resident Jessica Johnson also expressed concerns. 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Johnson runs the Riverbank Acres Bed and Breakfast and said the company’s so-called ‘proactive’ outage will have a big impact on both her home and business.“As a home and family we’re concerned about our freezers and fridges rotting full of food,” Johnson said. “There would be no air conditioning, no ability to cook for people,  so that would  impact us, of course, financially.” More on Canada More videos Liberals putting out ‘feelers’ for NDP MPs to cross floor: Davies Canadian man finds father’s wartime signature in Dutch church: ‘Amazing’ Rising unemployment a ‘harsh reality’ of the trade war, experts say Archbishop of Quebec says he expects Pope Leo will continue Indigenous reconciliation work U.S. border officials reveal seizures made at additional B.C. checkpoints Why tariff uncertainty may mean Canada’s spring housing market is ‘dead on arrival’ Heading south? Snowbirds must register at U.S. border Don Davies named interim NDP leader after Jagmeet Singh steps down Fortis’ corporate communications senior adviser Gary Toft said the company is hearing the concerns.“This is not something we would do lightly.  It would only be used as a last resort,” Toft said. “We are having discussions with communities and emergency services to understand what supports can be put in place.” Trending Now Junior hockey player’s sex assault sentence a ‘wake up call’ to young men, advocate says Canada’s housing market is ‘cracking’ under Trump’s trade war: report Coyne said that is something that should have been done prior to announcing the new policy.“They say they’re still working on it, but if this is just something you’re thinking about, or this is something you’re still working on, that’s when you are supposed to come to all the stakeholders and get input and work with us, and then you come up with a policy,” Coyne said.“Right now, what they’ve done is they’ve said they’re going to do this and they’ve set a wave of fear across our entire region.” Story continues below advertisement if ( typeof( gn_monetize ) !== 'undefined' && typeof( gn_monetize.Ads ) !== 'undefined' && gn_monetize.Ads.initialRequestMade() ) { // Ads script has been loaded, create the ad. gn_monetize.Ads.create( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-12","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":12,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-12"},"companion":false} ); } else { // if Ads script not yet loaded, queue up ad data for initialization. var gnAdSettings = gnAdSettings || {}; gnAdSettings.ads = gnAdSettings.ads || []; gnAdSettings.ads.push( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-12","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":12,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-12"},"companion":false} ); } Coyne has written a letter to both the provincial government and the B.C. Utilities Commission hoping they intervene.Johnson is also hoping the initiative doesn’t go ahead as planned.“I just feel like they are well overplaying their cards on this,” Johnson said. “It’s one thing to be ready to go because an emergency has happened,  it’s entirely another because they think something could happen, maybe. ”The 10 communities Fortis has identified as high-risk for wildfires and where the PSPS initiative will be implemented include Princeton, Midway, Greenwood, Beaverdell, Christian Valley, Westbridge, Rock Creek, Cawston, Keremeos, and Hedley. 2:07 Killiney Beach residents express need for mobile generators