Polar Vortex Spins Blackouts Through Canadian Province

摘要

Rolling blackouts and power outages throughout Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador province in January have prompted the Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities (PUB) to launch a probe into Nalcor Energy and its management of power generation and transmission infrastructure. PUB's announcement of the investigation comes after a number of public complaints claimed that utility corporations Nalcor and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro had focused all their development efforts on the approximately $7.8-billion Muskrat Falls hydropower project, now under construction, while neglecting crucial, existing infrastructure.