Côte-St-Luc gas leak cuts power to 12,000 homes

A gas leak at Cavendish Blvd. and Kildare Rd. in Côte-St-Luc forced Hydro-Québec to cut power to 12,000 clients in Montreal’s west end Thursday morning.
The leak occurred around 8 a.m. and firefighters required that power in the area be shut before they attempted to cap the breach.
The blackout affects users in Hampstead, Côte-St-Luc and much of the Monkland Village neighbourhood in N.D.G.
By 10 a.m. Hydro-Québec was reporting the number of clients affec