FREDERICTON – With just under 20,000 customers left to go, NB Power released a list of areas where residents can expect their power to be restored on or before Sunday evening.
Those areas include:
Kingsclear, Rusagonis, New Maryland, Lake George, Carriage Hill, Deerwood, Hoyt, Devon, Skyline Acres , Lincoln, Ripples, Stanley, Cross Creek, Mazerolle Settlement, Keswick Ridge, Nashwaaksis, Coal Creek, Cox Point, Bayside, Oak Bay, Pennfield, Campobello, Deer Island, St. Stephen, St. George, Grand Manan, Oromocto South, Grafton, Nackawic, Hartland, Eel River, Millville, Canterbury, Doaktown, Rogersville, Nelson, Red Bank, Douglastown, Chatham, Newcastle, Grand Bay-Westfield, Hampton, Fairvale, Gondola Point, Petitcodiac, Jemseg, Coal Island, Springfield, Sussex Corner, Sussex
The province’s energy utility says they’re aiming to have power back on for 90 per cent of their customers by Friday, 95 per cent by Sunday and 99 per cent by Tuesday.
The final one per cent of customers “could be offline beyond next Tuesday,” a utility spokeswoman said in a release. Those homes are ones with structural damage who need “extraordinary effort” in order to get power back.
Proposed Class Action Lawsuit
An Island View man is looking at filing a possible class action lawsuit against NB Power, saying the utility didn’t do its due diligence in ensuring the power system could handle a storm like Arthur.
Gustavo Zanatta, an environmental engineer, said his community hasn’t had power since 4:30 am last Saturday.
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“I don’t expect the power to never go out during a hurricane, it’s a hurricane, it’s bound to happen, but I think just the response and the reconnection time is something that really needs to be improved,” he said.
On Thursday, NB Power’s CEO Gaëtan Thomas said there are things NB Power has learned from post-tropical storm Arthur, including their communication system.
“The system was not designed for the enormity of this massive restoration for this storm. We’ve had issues before and we have committed before the storm to have the system fixed by the fall. So we’re working on that. That’s one of the more important elements so we can better communicate with our customers,” Thomas said.
Zanatta said the utility could have done more before the storm happened.
“We’re not looking for any financial restitution from NB Power, we just really want to force NB Power’s hand on putting together a good management plan to deal with these issues, a good contingency plan in case something like this happens again.
“Like bringing water to neighbourhoods like us who’ve been out of water for seven days now,” he said.
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