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Power failure
6. MR. POON CHI-FAI asked (in Cantonese):
Question No. 6
Hon FOON CH-\fai)
Question
(a)
(b)
(c)
As power failures would cause inconvenience to the public, and disruption of production and financial losses to factories, particularly in summer,
will Government inform this Council, whether it, in co-operation with the power companies,
compiles statistics and collates information to enable the relevant parties to identify the causes of power failures;
has any contingency plan to
to deal with large-scale blackouts; and
has devised any measures to prevent power failures?
REPLY BY THE HONOURABLE THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 1988
IN
FINANCIAL SECRETARY:
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Sir,
The
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of Mr. POON's question
carried out
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deals deals with the compilation of statistics on power failures.
Whenever there is a failure, This is done by the power companies. Indeed/inquiries are made by the company concerned in order instigated into all power failures to ascertain the causes so
that measures can be adopted to prevent future recurrence.
The findings of these inquiries are reported to the
Government. There are, of course, many possible causes of
power failures. These include equipment breakdown, damage to
power lines from severe weather conditions, third party
interference and faults within consumer installations.
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