Some one is Sweden is reading the blog in Swedish, makes sense if your Swedish I guess, but then who’d a thunk it.

An anonymous commenter wrote ...not to mention the $$$$'s spent on their repairmen and operators!.....on the Nov 14 post.
Actually I did briefly mention the “many man hours and many dollars have been spent” but it is a good point and one that has not been discussed in any detail, or virtually at all.

The reason for the fire was released as being “fuel line wearing on a part of the engine above the manifold”. To my knowledge no one has pursued this further, at least not in the public domain.

I keep thinking back pre fire to when the new plant was announced and the following construction. At the same time there were big staff cut backs and lay offs announced by NL hydro province wide.

I am not certain of the exact numbers but Nain lost at least one operator with reduced hours for the staff left. Plus the mechanic who was stationed here was transferred to Goose Bay. The NLH rational was the new plant was computerized and it could be monitored from St. John’s.

During a public meeting post fire the regional manager for NLH promised a permanent lineman would be stationed in Nain during the re build, to my knowledge that was carried out. Many at the meeting asked the question “why was there not a lineman stationed in Nain on permanent basis”.
Seeing as many of the power outages stemmed from distribution problems, this seemed a legitimate question.

Then during the re build there were the extra operators who were brought in on a rotation basis. Then the engineers who choppered in on a regular basis. The crews of NLH and contractors who were rebuilding and repairing all the damage, the ones working on installing the new unit, the cost of getting replacement units in and then removing them and on and on and on.

The cost of overtime must have been horrendous, not top mention the cost of accommodations, food and transport for the ever changing crews.

All this keeps me wondering if the pre fire cut backs comes under the ‘penny wise pound foolish’ category.

I wonder if we will ever see an accounting of the costs for all this?