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Speaker 1: Where are we at with the power in the north

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Speaker 1: after the transmission tower fell over? Of course they got

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Speaker 1: some of it back yesterday, they were still limiting it

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Speaker 1: last night. Transport Chief Executive Ellis Andrews, Well, there's Ellison.

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Speaker 1: Very good morning to you, mate. Just give us the

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Speaker 1: details and what we know this afternoon we think everything's back.

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Speaker 1: Is that still the plan.

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Speaker 2: At the moment. We're mobilizing equipment we need to site

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Speaker 2: and we're working hard to get focus on restoration. Yesterday

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Speaker 2: about eleven o'clock, as you said, we bost a big

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Speaker 2: transmission tower and lot and took out two circuits we

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Speaker 2: have which hard to get as much power as we

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Speaker 2: can back up on the smaller supply line. We apologize

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Speaker 2: to people who've been impacted by this loss of tower.

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Speaker 2: We know it's very inconvenient. So we've been focusing all

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Speaker 2: our efforts to work on how can we get as

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Speaker 2: much power as possible up through the smaller one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ten circuit. The two big two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: circuits were taken out by this tower, and now we're

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Speaker 2: working on how can we restore one of those two

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Speaker 2: twenty circuits as fast as possible to make sure that

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Speaker 2: every one of them can get their power back. We

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Speaker 2: believe we'd have enough power up for most people, but

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Speaker 2: it will be impacted over those morning and evening peaks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, don't read, don't read press statements, Elvison, just talk

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Speaker 1: to me like a human being. When does the power

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Speaker 1: come back?

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Speaker 2: Well, we can hard on getting the power back up.

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Speaker 2: Cruise Immobilized Engineering has been with you over night. I

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Speaker 2: think we can do it. We believe s put up

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Speaker 2: some temporary towers in a westering line across earliest would

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Speaker 2: be absolete this afternoon or th late Saturday. Realistically Sunday morning.

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Speaker 1: Wowsers, so it's a weekend potentially with trouble.

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Speaker 2: Over a weekend, the powder land is much lower, so

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Speaker 2: we believe that we'll be able to supply people over

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Speaker 2: the over the weekend. We're tricky this morning Friday morning

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Speaker 2: Friday night peak, but we're going to ask people again

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Speaker 2: who have been very good, to just manage if they

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Speaker 2: can not to put on a lot of power over

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Speaker 2: that peak period six to nine in the morning and

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Speaker 2: then five to seven at night or five to night

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Speaker 2: at night, fix to nine in the morning. If people

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Speaker 2: can just manage load there. We should be able to

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Speaker 2: get through powers lower over the weekend so people, we

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Speaker 2: should be able to supply all the people and if

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Speaker 2: we get the power buying back up and morning we

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Speaker 2: should be finding the London Morning's peak.

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Speaker 1: What have you heard about it falling over? Why does

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Speaker 1: a tower fall over?

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Speaker 2: At the moment we focus on restoration, like, it's actually

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Speaker 2: really unhelpful to speculate as to why. We will be

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Speaker 2: doing a full investigation, but that's really important. We keep

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Speaker 2: all our engineers or our people working hard focused on

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Speaker 2: restoration and not get diverted at this point on what

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Speaker 2: went wrong? Please be issued. We will find out what happened.

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Speaker 2: The tower should not have fallen over, but it's just

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Speaker 2: not helpful to speculate.

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Speaker 1: At the moment bolts were out and water blasting was

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Speaker 1: going on, it fell over.

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Speaker 2: We don't know if things were happening. We will find

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Speaker 2: out the information and we will make sure we find

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Speaker 2: what happened and learn from the event. But if they

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Speaker 2: say we have to focus on restoration, speculating now is unhelpful.

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Speaker 2: It just diverts resources. It stops the effort from going

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Speaker 2: onst which is a complex stop.

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Speaker 1: Some of your people were in the area. Weren't they

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Speaker 1: working We.

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Speaker 2: Had a crew that was rooting on the towering routine maintenance.

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Speaker 1: Yes, right, so they're working on the tower when it

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Speaker 1: fell over.

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Speaker 2: We have people doing routine work up and down the

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Speaker 2: country every day on towers that should not have fallen over,

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Speaker 2: and would want to do our best to do a good

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Speaker 2: investigation at the right time to find out what happened

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Speaker 2: in an infroment.

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Speaker 1: Do we need much of an investigation if you've got

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Speaker 1: a group of people there working on the tower and

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Speaker 1: the tower falls over. I think we've had that investigation,

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Speaker 1: and that is they did something to make the tower

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Speaker 1: fall over, didn't they?

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Speaker 2: No? I actually big to defer. It's anomous threat. It's

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Speaker 2: very tempting, and I can see where you're going to

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Speaker 2: try and do an investigation on the fly that it's

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Speaker 2: very dangerous. There are all sorts of reasons and causes

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Speaker 2: for why things happen, and it's really important that we

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Speaker 2: understand what happened and get to the root cause so

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Speaker 2: it can learn and make sure it can't happen again.

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Speaker 2: I understand thorough investigation.

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Speaker 1: Of course, and now I understand that, but I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at the tower I'm looking at the whole. You know

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Speaker 1: that we're the bolts are and the bolts aren't there anymore,

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Speaker 1: and it's lying on its side, and we've ruled out

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Speaker 1: the weather. Have you ruled out the weather?

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Speaker 2: By the way, we don't believe the weather was the pause.

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Speaker 2: And we've also inspected towers on other sides of that,

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Speaker 2: and that's sure of the bay are safe for restoration.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: But yes, it's easy to speculate, and there will be

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Speaker 2: some people who are very intrigued about what happened, but

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Speaker 2: we will do a thorough investigation. But this is actually

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Speaker 2: really important. We don't divert people away, distract them. There

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Speaker 2: maybe safety issues. We've got to focus on getting the

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Speaker 2: poor people. As an orphant who don't have power, it's

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Speaker 2: really important to get powered back to them as soon

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Speaker 2: as possible.

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Speaker 1: Safety quite right, If there was a crew on the

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Speaker 1: site and they watched the tower fall over, they would

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Speaker 1: have a pretty good indication as to what happened there.

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Speaker 1: What have they said to you?

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Speaker 2: We haven't done a deep effort, The proms aren't yet.

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Speaker 2: We've been focused on restoration.

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Speaker 1: No one's asked a question like what the hell happened?

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Speaker 2: I'm sure. I'm sure they have been questions. Answer, but

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Speaker 2: I say, well.

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Speaker 1: Who would have asked those questions?

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Speaker 2: MI?

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Speaker 1: The service providers doing the work, and you have no

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Speaker 1: interest in knowing what happened.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we have an enormous interest in knowing what happened.

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Speaker 2: But having been through a number of these serious incidents,

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Speaker 2: it's really important that you focus on efforts on festival,

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Speaker 2: making sure that the science is safe, and they'll inhert

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Speaker 2: that you can secure in side, and they're restoring power

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Speaker 2: supply as soon as possible. We will be collecting evidence,

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Speaker 2: of course, but investigations take time. That's really important we

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Speaker 2: get to the root cause and really understand the fact

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Speaker 2: is you can't do that overnight, and you certainly don't

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Speaker 2: do it on the trive that if you did. If

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Speaker 2: you did, if it is dangerous speculation and you may

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Speaker 2: not find the root cause and you distract from what

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Speaker 2: is a really important restoration.

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Speaker 1: Is okay, that's fine. If you find what has been

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Speaker 1: speculated is true. In other words, were people working on

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Speaker 1: a tower in the tower for all over? What are

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Speaker 1: you going to do about that?

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Speaker 2: We'll find the root cause, understand what happened, what could

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Speaker 2: have causes that should not happen. What of our controls,

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Speaker 2: what have our process which just what things happened that

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Speaker 2: caused that? And then what do we learn from that?

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Speaker 2: And then we'll take some actions. But there's all sorts

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Speaker 2: of reasons. I don't want to speculate them on why

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Speaker 2: these things can happen. It's what do we understand, what

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Speaker 2: control failed and therefore what can we learn from that?

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Speaker 1: Okay, appreciate you time very much. A loos and Andrew who

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