130 degrees and dark
In perhaps a symbol of the shrinking national power of the Iraqi government,
But we're making progress, right?
Iraq's power grid is on the brink of collapse because of insurgent sabotage of infrastructure, rising demand, fuel shortages and provinces that are unplugging local power stations from the national grid, officials said Saturday....
Power supplies in Baghdad have been sporadic all summer and now are down to just a few hours a day, if that. The water supply in the capital has also been severely curtailed by power blackouts and cuts that have affected pumping and filtration stations.....
One of the biggest problems facing the national grid is the move by provinces to disconnect their power plants from the system....
"Many southern provinces such as Basra, Diwaniyah, Nassiriyah, Babil have disconnected their power plants from the national grid. Northern provinces, including Kurdistan, are doing the same," al-Shimari said. "We have absolutely no control over some areas in the south," he added.
But we're making progress, right?
posted by mikevotes at
5:24 PM
6 Comments:
total leadership failure!
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Anonymous, at 6:29 PM
It's looking more and more like an implosion. The Central government has little influence outside the Green Zone.
How can you ask anyone, politician, policeman, soldier, civil servant to risk themselves for this government?
And the Us props up the status quo because it fears what comes next.
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mikevotes, at 6:37 PM
That was another anonymous (it's a big family). The power and water problems go back to the twelve years of sanctions.
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Anonymous, at 7:48 PM
To some degree that's true, but the Us has poured in enough equipment to make up for alot of that.
The issue of design in the power grid, generation outside Baghdad then transmitted over distance, does make the systme very vulnerable.
The real issues are the impossibility of protecting the spread out power elements, the sheer corruption among the sectarian administrators running all the local facilities, and the general lack of order in the government.
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mikevotes, at 9:25 PM
"The real issues are the impossibility of protecting the spread out power elements, the sheer corruption among the sectarian administrators running all the local facilities, and the general lack of order in the government."
Check. Plus looting and sabotage and Al Quaida making things difficult for the occupiers.
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Anonymous, at 9:50 PM
Bingo.
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mikevotes, at 10:26 PM
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