Over 4,500 Nova Scotia Power customers in the dark in large outage
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Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are in the dark amid a large outage stretching from Head of Chezzetcook and Musquodoboit Harbour to Little Harbour and Ship Harbour.
Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are in the dark this morning amid a large outage stretching from Head of Chezzetcook and Musquodoboit Harbour to Little Harbour and Ship Harbour.
The utility says the outage, impacting 4,355 customers as of 7 a.m., began Wednesday evening just before 10 p.m. and it expects power to be restored later this morning.
Nova Scotia Power says the outage is due to a “transmission interruption,” and was not immediately available for comment.
A second, smaller outage northeast of that one, is impacting an additional 228 customers as of 7 a.m. in Frasers Mills and surrounding areas.
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