Come By Chance refinery still offline because of outage

The refinery at Come By Chance in eastern Newfoundland will not be able to resume operations until later this week after being knocked out of commission by the island-wide power failure. 

The North Atlantic refinery lost power this weekend, during a collapse that saw customers across Newfoundland lose electricity. 

Amid rolling blackouts prompted by deeply cold temperatures and compromised infrastructure at Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, a fire at the Sunnyside station triggered an island-wide collapse of the electrical system. 

"We did lose power and [are] working on restart this week," said Gloria Slade, communications manager with North Atlantic.