Nearly 300,000 customers still without power in Quebec after ice storm
THE CANADIAN PRESS
“The bulk part of our distribution system has been restored, so now we are doing some work on outages with a smaller amount of customers attached to them. So when we restore an outage, fewer customers regain power,” Nadeau told a Saturday morning news conference. “So the rhythm of restoration will be slower.”He said some of the roughly 3,000 remaining outages are in hard-to-access areas or are trickier to resolve, which will also slow the progress.
Nadeau said he hopes almost everyone will have their lights on by Sunday, but it may take a little longer for some.1:53As their outages stretch on, Quebec Energy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon said grocery stores in affected regions would remain open Sunday, despite the Easter holiday.Story continues below advertisement
“Obviously one of the issues people are unable to keep food in their fridge, so we are allowing on an exception basis tomorrow six regions that all food stores will be open,” Fitzgibbon said.“We have to be resilient,” Fitzgibbon said. “As explained, the last 20 per cent, 10 per cent of people who lost their power, it’s going to take a little bit more time.”
In eastern Ontario, Hydro One said nearly 25,000 of its customers were still in the dark on Saturday, while Hydro Ottawa said 5,000 customers were awaiting power as of Friday night.
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