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A panel reviewing the future of N.B. Power says the Holt government should take over a large part of the utility’s debt to reduce the pressure to raise rates for customers.
The panel is also recommending that a second large nuclear power plant be built next to the existing Point Lepreau generating station — but that the troubled plant be split off from the Crown corporation and become a separate operation.
But the report released Monday warns there is no single, easy solution to fix the troubled corporation.
“Let us…