Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as the Member noted earlier, the power was off from about four in the morning until nearly noon. The reason for the long outage, was that the control station in Yellowknife was not aware that there was a problem with the power until about 7:30 a.m. The Corporation was never able to determine the cause of the outage, but it may have been related to the high winds that night. Mr. Speaker, the Power Corporation takes full responsibility for the power outage and apologizes to the community for any problems that may have resulted. Changes to the 24-hour trouble reporting line between the community and Yellowknife meant that the phone system was disconnected for a period of time. That is the reason the staff on duty were not aware there was a problem in the community for three and a half hours. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Charles Dent on Question 540-13(4): Cause Of Rae-edzo Power Outage
In the Legislative Assembly on June 4th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Item 6: Oral Questions
June 3rd, 1997
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