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Extended Yellowknife power outage caused by breaker failure: Naka Power

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Monday, April 7, 2025 at 10:10 — Last Updated: Monday, April 7, 2025 at 10:12
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Some people had no power for over 7 hours A broken breaker at a power distribution substation caused Saturday’s extended power

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Diavik’s solar plant is running, hope it can be ‘deployed elsewhere’ when mine closes

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 09:25
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Solar panels expected to provide a quarter of the electricity needed for the mine’s closure Rio Tinto says its 3.5-megawatt

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 News Society Society (Canada) 

Residents of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, get electricity back after days-long power outage

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 4, 2023 at 09:57
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The hamlet declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to extended power outages. Residents of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, have

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norwegian military watchtower got electricity from Russian hydro-power plant—then it was cut

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 09:04
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The military watchtower is manned round-the-clock guarding Norway’s land border with Russia. This June, Russia decided to cut the electricity

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Blackouts in 2013 in Sweden lasted longer and hit nearly 200,000 households.(iStock)
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Electricity prices climb in Sweden as Russian gas pipeline goes offline

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, July 15, 2022 at 09:11
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Energy prices climbed again in parts of Sweden in recent days, owing in part to uncertainty over a major Russian

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General Sweden 

Wind power to be expanded to all of Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 13:26 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 13:31
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Electricity from wind power needs to quadruple compared to today, if the climate targets are to be met, according the Energy

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Economic activity in northern Canadian territories of Nunavut & Yukon increased despite pandemic, new index suggests

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Monday, January 11, 2021 at 09:17
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A new experimental index developed by Statistics Canada suggests that the pandemic may not have had as large an effect

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New power plant approved for Arctic Bay in Canada’s Nunavut

Emily Blake, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 11:42 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 12:37
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A proposal for a new power plant in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, has been approved, something the Qulliq Energy Corporation says

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Northern Canada: town’s fight to switch power distributors reaches Northwest Territories Supreme Court

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 25, 2019 at 09:57 — Last Updated: Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:03
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A case that has implications for the cost and distribution of electricity in eight Northwest Territories communities, including the capital

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Nuclear power plant in northern Finland delayed four years to 2028

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 15:58 — Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2018 at 15:54
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A controversial nuclear power plant to be located in Pyhäjoki in northern Ostrobothnia on Finland’s northwest coast will take four

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Electricity prices to jump in Tampere, southern Finland

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 14:54
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The price of electricity is set to rise in Tampere and the surrounding Pirkanmaa region of south-central Finland this autumn,

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Environment Environment (Russia) General News Russia 

Arctic electric rally hits the road towards Northwestern Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, June 22, 2018 at 10:41
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Electric car enthusiasts from Bergen (southwest Norway), Oslo (southeast Norway), Hammerfest (Arctic Norway), Minsk (Belarus) and St. Petersburg (Western Russia)

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Finnish solar industry looks for boost from better storage

Yle News
Posted: Monday, March 26, 2018 at 11:06
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A dozen solar panels gleam in the sun on the roof of a semi-detached house in Herttoniemi, eastern Helsinki. In

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Russia wants cryptocurrency farms in Murmansk region

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, February 19, 2018 at 11:32
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New cryptocurrency farms should be built in the Murmansk region where there is abundant electricity available at affordable prices, Kravchenko

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Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Electric planes could arrive sooner than we think in Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 19, 2018 at 10:20 — Last Updated: Friday, January 19, 2018 at 11:26
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With tens of small airports and many short-haul flights, northern Norway is ideal for introduction of electric passenger aircrafts. For

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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