Hydro-Québec: Visit of high-placed after 180 power cuts

Pierre-Paul Biron

Thursday, march 8, 2018 21:10

UPDATE
Thursday, march 8, 2018 21:10

Look at this article

The residents of Saint-Philemon, who endured 180 power cuts in three years have received on Thursday the visit of high-ranking of Hydro-Québec, came to explain to them in detail the difficulties encountered in the sector and present them with a plan of action for the months to come.

• READ ALSO: divergent Versions on the 180 power outages

Anne-Marie Lemieux and Denis Nicol came out encouraged Thursday of their meeting with three representatives of Hydro-Québec, including vice-president – Network distribution Claudine Bouchard and an engineer.

Parties of Montreal and braving the storm, the representatives of the State company were keen to make the 325 km between Saint-Philemon to meet their customers.

And so, for the first time in three years, the affected residents no longer felt like the Gauls who struggle against a system that refuses to listen to them.

Answers

“We had answers. We had a very good conversation and there are things that have been in-depth that had never before been in the previous information. […] I had enough talking with people who are not electricians or engineers, but when we explained the things as it should, we understand, ” says Ms. Lemieux, happy to see that the two previous articles in the Journal have made a difference.

As Hydro-Québec had maintained since the beginning, the problems on the network in the area would be mainly caused by the abundant vegetation.

Details have, however, enabled the people to understand the problem better.

“The line on which they were connected, they had not been pruning they would have had to do before,” says the lady, stating, however, that the vegetation would only be a part of the problem.

Other problems

The representatives of Hydro-Québec in particular have been able to identify other problems that would require further investigations on the network.

“By coming here, they knew things that they did not know. They have learned things on our record, and they start to understand a lot of things. They need to send to other teams shortly, ” says Anne-Marie Lemieux.