Why Does Thunder Bay Hydro Trim Trees?
Thunder Bay Hydro has an aggressive tree trimming program that maintains and removes trees and limbs along utility easements to prevent contact with high voltage electrical wires. The purpose of the program is to ensure public safety and to provide a reliable electrical service to all of our customers by preventing unscheduled power interruptions. Safety Anyone who prunes or climbs trees that are in contact with the power lines is putting themselves into potentially highly dangerous situations. Trees and the ground around them may become energized when branches come into contact with the power lines. Momentary contact between the tree and energized power lines could be fatal to anyone who is in proximity of the tree. Reliability Trees are a significant cause of power outages. Outages from trees are caused from branches rubbing on power lines, branches falling on power lines and trees falling across power lines during storms. By trimming power lines on a regular schedule to a minimum cl
