Natural gas outages persist as frigid temperatures ring in weekend

As an extreme cold warning persisted for the Edmonton area early Saturday, residents in a northern Alberta county were coping with natural gas outages.
An alert issued by Alberta’s Emergency Management Agency remained in effect for Mackenzie County on Saturday morning, citing cold weather as the cause of disruptions to the natural gas supply in the region. The agency said the problem is expected to persist until temperatures rise. In the meantime, natural gas supply trucks are being b