Nearly 200,000 electricity clients have lost power in Montreal after an issue with a Hydro-Québec transmission line. The provincially owned electric utility says a protection mechanism was tripped on one of its high-voltage transmission lines just north of Montreal, triggering the widespread outage. Spokesperson Caroline Des Rosiers says authorities are investigating what happened and aren’t…
Nearly 200K Montreal Hydro Clients Without Power After Transmission Line Problem
Thousands of Hydro-Québec Clients Lose Power After Churchill Falls Interruption
Quebec’s electric utility says thousands are without power in the province after a problem at the Churchill Falls generating station in Labrador. A Hydro–Québec spokesman says the station experienced a sudden interruption today, which triggered protection mechanisms that responded by cutting power, adding the utility is investigating what happened. Around noon, the provincially-owned utility reported…
Cyberattack Knocks out Website and Mobile App for Quebec’s Hydro Utility
Quebec’s power utility says its website and mobile application have been knocked offline by a cyberattack. Hydro-Québec says it was targeted at around 3 a.m. by a denial-of-service assault — when attackers flood an internet server with traffic and overwhelm it. The utility says the attack has shut down its website and cellphone application but…
About 16,000 Quebec Clients Remain Without Power Six Days After Ice Storm
Quebec’s electric utility says it still can’t say with certainty when power will return to all the homes and businesses affected by last week’s ice storm. About 16,000 customers are still off the grid, and Hydro-Québec says the majority of them are in the Montreal area. Utility spokesman Francis Labbé says work is particularly complicated…
Hydro-Québec Says Some Ice Storm Power Outages Will Not Be Fixed Before Tuesday
Another 50,000 Hydro–Québec customers should see their power restored by end of day on Sunday, the utility said while warning some of its remaining repairs to lines damaged by last week’s deadly ice storm may not be completed until Tuesday. About 83,700 Hydro–Québec clients were without power around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, down from 114,000…
Quebec Man Recounts Rescue Attempt in Propane Explosion That Left Workers Missing
As a ceiling and wall collapsed on a woman desperately trying to flee the scene of an explosion at a Quebec propane distribution company, Éric Lizotte could only watch in horror. The resident of St-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Que., whose home is just metres from Propane Lafortune, said he was in the middle of trying to rescue the…
Hydro-Québec President Sophie Brochu Announces Resignation, Will Leave Post April 11
Sophie Brochu, the president and CEO of Hydro–Québec, announced today she will step down on April 11. Brochu did not give a reason for her departure in a letter sent to employees but said it was time to “pass the baton.” In a news release, the Crown corporation’s board of directors thanks Brochu for her…
About 11,000 Hydro-Québec Customers Still Without Power One Week After Winter Storm
Hydro-Québec says more than 10,700 customers are still without power a week after a major winter storm knocked out transmission lines across the province. The utility says the power is still out for more than 3,300 customers in the Quebec City area, about 2,800 clients in the Laurentians region, and for roughly 1,200 customers in…
About 19K Quebec Hydro Customers Still Without Power Almost 1 Week After Storm
Nearly 19,000 Hydro-Québec customers are still without power this morning, after a winter storm slammed Eastern Canada last week. The public utility’s outage map shows more than 5,700 clients without electricity in the Quebec City area, nearly 5,000 in the Côte-Nord region and more than 2,400 in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Hydro-Québec’s CEO said earlier this week that…
Tens of Thousands of Canadians Still in the Dark After Fierce Storm
Utility crews in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick are still working to restore electricity to thousands of people who have been in the dark for days after last week’s fierce winter storms knocked out their power. As of Tuesday afternoon, power is still out for more than 32,000 Hydro-Québec customers and more than 16,000 Hydro…
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