Category: Moncton

Service New Brunswick admits it made mistakes on 2,400 property assessments and issued an apology yesterday. The Telegraph-Journal reports the government says new bills will be sent to homeowners by April 1st. It attributes the mistakes to human error…but also that it was less than half as many mistakes as last year.

Given the mistakes, however, Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs thinks the appeal deadline needs to be pushed back a month.

The January ice storm cost NB Power $4.1 million in overtime pay alone, according to the Telegraph-Journal. That doesn’t include the cost of replacing 600 hydro poles that snapped…mainly on the Acadian Peninsula.

NB Power says these costs won’t be downloaded onto customer’s bills, although they will affect the Crown Corporation’s net income for the year.