“Hundreds of thousands of households are without power Tuesday morning across Quebec after a first night of relentless snowfall brought as much as 35 centimeters of snow to parts of the province. Some school boards are asking that students stay at home.”
Again I ask, why are our transmission lines not underground? Is it because it is too difficult to dig into the Canadian Shield or something? I live in Sudbury, so I am not one of the effected, but it seems bad that deep into the 21st century we can still have power outages like this that impact so many of our citizens.
Again I ask, why are our transmission lines not underground?
Money.
Yes, but I mean… We still build sewer systems in Canadian cities on the Canadian Shield. I think it is fair to have the conversation as to why we cannot follow through with power transmission infrastructure as well. We all witnessed the effects of the 1998 ice storm. The fact that 27 years after that, things like this are still occurring is shameful.