As the 1st anniversary of DARKNL approaches, we still suffer Ed Martin as Head of the Province's energy agency. We need to ask: why?
Last January the Liberty Consulting Group was hired by the Public Utilities Board to investigate the reason for several days of Island-wide power outages. An Interim Report, released in April 2014 contained a damming indictment of Nalcor's leadership.
Last January the Liberty Consulting Group was hired by the Public Utilities Board to investigate the reason for several days of Island-wide power outages. An Interim Report, released in April 2014 contained a damming indictment of Nalcor's leadership.
It describes
wide ranging management, personnel, forecasting and operational issues. Hydro had not even completed its 2013 summer maintenance
program. Replacement parts had not been procured or even sourced. Poor
forecasting methodologies led to an inadequacy of power generation.
Missing from
the Liberty Report was blame on cold weather or excessive power demand.
Nalcor had
not only mishandled the Province’s power assets; it had attempted to obscure
the real reasons for the failure.
