The Canadian Press: One of Canada’s largest forestry companies is accusing New Brunswick’s public utility of giving preferential treatment to outside industrial customers.
Earlier this year, a provincial regulator gave permission for NB Power to sell cheaper surplus power at market rates to out-of-province customers in a move that could boost the utility’s revenues by millions of dollars.
…Mark Mosher, an executive at forestry giant J.D. Irving Ltd., alleges that, by prioritizing export contracts, NB Power is selling what was previously the cheap surplus power to external customers in the United States and other provinces…