… In Nova Scotia, the province’s electric utility has seen a significant increase in thefts of copper wire over the past year, and Bell Aliant has said the same thing is happening in New Brunswick.
Matt Drover, senior director of transmission and distribution operations at Nova Scotia Power, says the company has recorded dozens of such thefts in 2022. He would not disclose the exact number or the financial cost.
In October, the company issued a news release in an attempt to dissuade would-be thieves, warning that they were putting themselves and others “at risk of severe injury or death.”
