Below please find a copy of a News Story on CBC NL
Please notice the source named as dealing with the power outages.
Funny how Newfoundland Power is responsible for the Northern Peninsula.
Since when?
All one has to do is go to the Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro site.
The questions are:
1. Has Newfoundland Power taken over the rural customers from NL Hydro? If so when?
2. Is the CBC reporter just ignorant thereby reporting incorrect information?
3. Is Newfoundland Power speaking for NL Hydro?
Power out on the Northern, Baie Verte Peninsulas
More than a dozen communities on the Baie Verte and Northern peninsulas will be without power overnight Thursday.
Newfoundland Power crews are trying to repair lines that were damaged by ice, snow and rain.
Much of the damage is in remote areas that require travel over rough terrain to reach.
Work is being done to restore power to the communities of Fleur de Lys, Coachman's Cove, Englee, Bide Arm and Conche.
Newfoundland Power says electricity has been restored in the St. Anthony and the Roddickton areas.
The RCMP said thousands of people on the Northern Peninsula have also lost their phone and internet services because a fiber optic line near Deer Lake has broken.
Sgt. Boyd Merrill said the outage caused problems in several communities.
“In Rocky Harbour you can phone locally but you may not be able to phone long distance. In Port Saunders you don’t have internet service or cell service and we believe the further north you go the same situation is up there,” he said.
Labrador-Grenfell Health said people who need medical help will have to drive to the hospital or nearest clinic.
2 comments:
Jeevus, it was only a hour ago that I was telling my daughter something is wrong with NLHydro. I wondering why the service has deteriorated so much in the last year or so. One time they were right on the ball in an emergency and time of day, night or weather condition. You could call their emergency number and they would tell you where the problem is and how long to fix it and they were always spot on the money. The last couple days when you call they only tell you what communities are without juice and can't tell you what is wrong or when it will be fixed. To think this is only a minor storm in October and imagining some of the big ones we get in March and April; we're in trouble. So this all makes me wonder if NLHydro has been tampered with by Nalcor for some reason. I just have an uneasy feeling about it from my observations over the past year.
Is this another downgrade in Newfoundland and Labrador all for the sake of making Nalcor more profitable in its endeavour to build the Muskrat Falls Project, so that Maritimers can get cheaper electricity and also build the industry and infrastructure that the province of Newfoundand and Labrador should be building from its own coveted natural resaource, and the people of Newfoundland and Labrador pay for others to have those benefits? Any venture to drag away resources from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador for the benefit of the other provinces has the word URGENCY stamped all over it by Ottawa.
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