Blackout | Yuen Long District Joint Conference Advocates CLP to Reduce Electricity Charges and Compensate Fire Fighting: Accidents Not Caused by Humans

Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun caught fire on the 21st of this month due to a CLP cable bridge, causing power outages in many places, affecting hundreds of thousands of citizens. Yuen Long District Council joined hands with Yuen Long City District Committee, Tin Shui Wai South District Committee and Tin Shui Wai North The zone committee held a joint meeting on the event today (29th).

At the meeting, several councillors and members suggested that CLP should take preventive measures and urged CLP to provide compensation to the affected households.

Participants also criticized the government's failure to activate an emergency communication system in response to the incident, and the citizens did not have access to information when the internet was disconnected.

Advocate for CLP to provide electricity tariff reduction and exemption as compensation

Zhan Ka-hung, chairman of the Tin Shui Wai South District Committee, questioned that the Communications Authority had not activated the emergency communication system at the time of the incident. He bluntly stated that the affected residents involved three districts, and suggested that CLP provide the affected residents with electricity fee reductions.

Chen Sijing, a member of the Tin Shui Wai South District Committee, bluntly stated that the public had no information on the day of the power outage, and the official explanation was in vain. Only the media reported and live broadcast the incident. He criticized the Communications Authority for why the emergency information system in Hong Kong was not used. Local areas" were dissatisfied with the explanation, and angrily denounced "I'll set you up."

Zhou Yongqin: It is necessary to thoroughly investigate whether the incident is "causing trouble" while the July 1 return

At the meeting, some members urged to provide a report on the cause of the incident as soon as possible. Some people mentioned that the words "Yuen Long, 21" were too sensitive, and hoped to release the investigation results of the incident as soon as possible to clear their doubts. Is it related to "Black Storm" taking advantage of the July 1 return to "doing things"?

A representative of the Fire Services Department said at the meeting that, according to the department's current investigation, the cause of the accident was not man-made.

▼On the evening of June 21, there will be a power outage in Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai▼

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CLP: Remove the cable bridge involved within a week

CLP Corporate Affairs Director (External Relations) Fan Jitao responded that the power supply in the affected areas has returned to normal, and the removal of the fire cable bridge is expected to be completed within a week.

For most of the questions asked at the meeting, Fan said that due to the extremely complex power supply system, he hoped that everyone can "wait a minute" and explain in the detailed report of CLP after the event.

Liang Cuicai, Chief Regulatory Affairs Manager (Regulation 13) of the Office of the Communications Authority, said that with regard to the use of the emergency communication system, various departments can decide to use the emergency communication system according to the situation. The letter will be distributed by the office or the Information Services Department.

He also explained that in order to receive the relevant information, the mobile phone needs to be within the coverage of the mobile network. If it is not in the network, the information will not be received.

In some housing estates, power was restored at 6 a.m. the next day

The Housing Department's general manager of property management (Tuen Mun and Yuen Long), Wong Pui-jin, responded that there were about 120 buildings involved, most of which were built in the late 1980s, and most of them had backup generators. According to the Buildings Ordinance in the 1980s, backup power will be provided for emergency lighting systems and firefighting equipment operation, while water pumps are not related areas, so the supply of salt and fresh water is not supported.

He continued that the power supply in the estate was gradually restored at around 10 p.m. on the same day, but received a notice from CLP that some buildings may need to be powered off for two days, so it was decided to stop the power supply for non-essential and non-emergency services. The power outage started at 7:11 am and resumed from 3 am to 6 am the next day.

▼The fire of the CLP Cable Bridge in Yuen Long on the evening of June 21▼

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