Guysborough’s warden says they’re in the process of transferring the Canso Electric Utility to Nova Scotia Power reps.
Municipal officials absorbed the utility when the former Town of Canso dissolved and joined the Municipality of the District of Guysborough in 2012.
After July’s regular municipal council meeting Wednesday afternoon, Vernon Pitts, the warden of Guysborough, said they’ve applied to members of the province’s Utility and Review Board to divest.
“It’s in the hands of Nova Scotia Power now,” he said. “I believe they (the UARB) don’t know if a public meeting is going to be necessary- it depends on the feedback.”
Councillors in the former Town of Canso passed a motion to sell the utility in 2010, two years prior to dissolution; Guysborough councillors started the process of trying to offload it in 2016.
Pitts said they want good service for residents of Canso, and Nova Scotia Power reps are better suited to provide that.
“We don’t have the resources to manage or maintain an electric utility- that’s their job, that’s what they do,” he said. “We’re not looking to make money at this- we’re just looking at power at a reasonable rate.”
Pitts said the price of the transfer is $1.
He said they expect to complete the process by the end of 2019.
