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Transmission issue knocks out power in New Brunswick

A large power outage left many in the Moncton area without electricity.

NB Power linked the issue back to a transmission problem.

About 25,000 were without power at the height of the blackout on Monday.

Source: NB Power

By the afternoon, a few hundred people in the Shediac area were still waiting to get the lights back on.


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