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Figures show ugly weather during the fall and winter has cost N.B. Power near-record amounts to deal with outages and repairs, but it's a bill that equally miserable weather from last spring and summer may help pay for.
N.B. Power is still totalling up costs from the pre-Christmas storm that cut service to 129,000 New Brunswick customers, but based on previous big storms it will be a multimillion dollar bill.
At a news conference Thursday, Nicole Poirier, vice-president of operations at NB Power, said the outages were largely caused by trees that downed power lines.
Crews from Quebec and Maine helped repair power lines, get electricity back up in N.B., but the utility faced difficulties finding additional resources because other provinces were also hit hard by the storm