Outage Investigation Continues

Sunday, January 28, 2007 03:48 AM

BC Hydro’s Bob Gammer says it could take as long as a month before the cause of last Tuesday’s outage has been pinpointed.

"The investigation is a joint investigation of B.C. Hydro and the B.C. Transmission Corp" says Gammer who says it could take up to 30 days before they have all the answers.

Tuesday afternoon equipment at the Williston Sub-Station, south of Prince George, shifted into protective mode and started shut downs all along the grid -- knocking out power to 67 thousand (correct) customers from parts of Quesnel, north through Prince George, and on to Fort St. John.

For most customers, the outage only lasted about 15 minutes and at most 2 hours, but there were some customers who had to wait much longer.

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Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007 03:48 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: camoose on January 28 2007 12:19 PM

First we were told the report of the cause would be Friday, now it's 30 days. Why the stonewalling? Is there something Hydro has to hide? It seems in this day and age that the public is being kept in the dark about many things and we can't rely on the media to dig out the info for us.

Posted by: jonnypg on January 28 2007 7:49 PM

Just look for the burned out black thing!

Posted by: Marty on January 29 2007 6:44 PM

Did hydro not report only 30,000 customer lost power ?
Now the number is up to 67,000 !
Next week I guess it will be 150,000.....