Thank you, Madam Speaker. I could just say "yes" and sit down, but I want to take this opportunity to apologize to those impacted by the outages that occurred. And I want to also take this time, Madam Speaker, to go over a brief summary of the investigation of the power outages that happened here in Yellowknife in September.
So the first full system outage occurred at about 5:30 on Saturday, September 10th. This was caused to be high winds in the area that brought a tree in contact with the transmission line. The second outage occurred Sunday, September the 11th at 11:30, and with the system restoration began with a full diesel backup. So high winds caused a tree to contact with the transmission line. The third full outage system occurred at 4:28. So the electrical stability issues again made it difficult to restore the power using diesel. Workers identified a transformer at the Jackfish generating station was responsible for the stability issues. And if was taken off line. Madam Speaker, I think everyone realizes the high winds that weekend were unprecedented.
I would like to thank the Northwest Territories Power Corporation personnel that responded to removing the trees on the power line and finding the fault at the Jack Fish. I have more detailed information on the investigation. I am not going to go through it in full; I'm sure people are pointing at the clock right now. But thank you, Madam Speaker.