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Generators Will Allow Residents of Pukatawagan to Go Home.

PHOTO BY MANITOBA HYDRO

After just over a month of planning, transportation and installation work Manitoba Hydro energized two large industrial generators to bring power back to the community of Pukatawagan.  The wildfire that threatened the community and caused residents to evacuate damaged 77 poles on the power line feeding the community so two 1500 kilovolt generators were shipped by train to The Pas and attached to a train along with other cars hauling poles, spools of power lines, insulators, guy wires, specialized vehicles, transformers and fuel for total of 27 cars. Manitoba Hydro will now get to work setting poles in and around steep cliffs, marsh and rock with assistance from helicopters.

             

Mathias Colomb Cree Nation Chief Lorna Bighetty noted installing the generators means that essential services such as health, water and sewer, service to our homes, access to the outside world through internet services and other media will be available again.

 

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