Transmission line out, new power outages reported in south Sask.

Source: CBC News, December 6, 2018 

Thursday outage comes after tens of thousands left without power earlier this week

Power was out in a large area east of Regina for a few hours on Thursday, which SaskPower says was due to a transmission line issue.

An outage earlier this week — the largest Saskatchewan has faced since 1981 — was also related to transmission line failures, according to SaskPower.

A new outage was reported in the area stretching from Balgonie to Fort Qu’appelle at 2:51 p.m. CST, SaskPower tweeted. Damaged equipment caused the outage and a fix was expected within less than an hour.

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