Thursday, October 09, 2003
"Blackout probe too secret, CEO says" Ann Arbor News, Sept. 24., 2003. The outspoken chief of southeast Michigan's power grid says the national inquiry into last month's blackout has been too secretive and may not provide the public a full answer to what caused the largest power outage in U.S. history.
Joseph Welch, CEO of Scio Township-based International Transmission Co. . . . federal investigators seem more prone to conceal information than reveal it, he said.
At least six ITC technicians who provided data for the federal investigation had to sign non-disclosure agreements. . . .
"Their initial intent was to keep all information related to the outage confidential forever," [Jim Frankowski, the firm's in-house attorney] said.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the North American Electric Reliability Council, an energy oversight organization, are coordinating the federal investigation into the power loss through a joint U.S.-Canadian task force. . . . .....---
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