Category: Campbellton

January’s ice storm was NB Power’s most expensive ever.

The utility’s accountants have been adding up the 30 million dollar cost, which surpasses the 23 million hit of post-tropical storm Arthur in 2014.

The cost includes replacing poles and wires brought down by the ice, and bringing in outside crews; including lodging and feeding them.

Legislation will be introduced to create an independent agency to handle property assessments.

An independent review will look into how Service New Brunswick calculated them for this and recent years.

The amount of appeals has hit over 95 hundred, with a couple of thousand assessments learned to have been rushed through the system.

An arbitrary formula was used this year and in 2011.