Roads Blocked as Power Plants Disconnection Plunges Lebanon into Darkness

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Most of Lebanon plunged into darkness on Monday after the Zahrani, Deir Amar and Zouk power plants disconnected from the distribution network, causing power outages across the country.

LBC television said “power generation units have disconnected from the distribution network for unidentified reasons and efforts are underway to reconnect them.”

Residents across Lebanon have been recently blocking roads to protest lengthy power cuts.

Protesters blocked on Monday the Tripoli-Beirut and Beirut-South highways to protest the blackouts.

Residents also blocked a road connecting Tripoli to Zgharta and roads in Barja, Koura, Jiyyeh, Khaldeh and the Beirut neighborhood of Msaytbeh.

SourceNaharnet
Comments 10
Missing peace 18 June 2012, 23:01

thx to berri and bassil....

Missing lebcan 18 June 2012, 23:27

I love M8 People they really have improved our lives ..... NOT!!!!!!!!!!

Thumb Geralt 18 June 2012, 23:08

Back to the stone age… at least we still have the wheel!

Missing lebcan 18 June 2012, 23:29

Yes we do, and thank God we have mountains we can use to go downhill with them... The Problem is rolling uphill Mmmmmmmm ???

Default-user-icon batataratata (Guest) 19 June 2012, 00:32

How is it 8th fault?
So based on your very logical and objective way of thinking, if you have a guy who keeps creating a giant pile of shit for 20 years, then you sack him and replace him by someone else for few months, he becomes the one who's responsible for causing the giant pile of shit that the
person before him has been building for the past 20 years?

This is the consequences of all of the previous governments, smarties. Try to be a it objective, it's not that difficult. Self criticism never hurts, you wont die if you say that the people you support messed up too (and I stress on "TOO", I'm not saying that 8th don't mess up). But that's definitely not 8th responsibility alone, anyone who says that is simply a blind hypocrite.

Missing peace 19 June 2012, 15:18

it s the fault of the incompetent people who governs us be it M14 or M8... but the situation has degraded since M8 took power by force... that is OBJECTIVE....

Default-user-icon Lebanese (Guest) 19 June 2012, 00:48

Just like what you said peace... they have been talking about 24 hour electricity for years which was my childhood dream... now they don't even take care of their own power plants. 4 million people... without electricity?

Thumb extramildcake 19 June 2012, 08:01

That's why it went off last night? You have to applaud our government. If there's any place in the world where the electricity has to be cut off, send in our boys.

Thumb fadi_albeiruti 19 June 2012, 08:50

And the hits keep coming.

Default-user-icon ImadA (Guest) 19 June 2012, 10:22

All the Lebanese will soon realize that Lebanon is a Failure, except a few groups playing war games. These have secured weapons ,money, and they have no idea what a Nation means. SAD