The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that the federal government is committing more than $100-million to three electricity transmission projects in Western Canada in a bid to boost access to potential resource projects. The Globe's Adam Radwanski writes that the funds, announced on Tuesday by Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson at a mining conference in Toronto, are to be drawn from the government's First and Last Mile Fund, which is for infrastructure to support critical minerals supply chains. Two of the projects are in British Columbia. Upgrading B.C.'s Northwest Transmission Line (NTL), toward which Mr. Hodgson pledged $44.2-million, is meant to bolster electricity supplies to the mineral-rich Golden Triangle in B.C.'s northwest. Among the NTL's benefits touted in Ottawa's announcement are power supply to the Red Chris copper mine expansion (which was among the first referrals by Mr. Carney to the new federal Major Projects Office) and construction of a gold and copper mine by Seabridge Gold. The other B.C. project to receive First and Last Mile funding is an upgrade to the provincial grid primarily to support Teck Resources' Highland Valley copper mine near Kamloops.