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Originally Posted by The_bluester
No, if true it was a business decision to underspend on maintenance over the long term to boost profits and then when the plant an equipment gets to the point where the maintenance simply has to be done, shut it down instead having already booked enlarged profits over a period of years by "Deferring" the maintenance.
I.E. the PM accused them of not doing what would have been planned maintenance in order to make bigger profits, then shutting it down when the crunch came maintenance wise.
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When you know that the one big item that you rely on is going to fail, why would you spend on full maintenance for the rest of the plant?
Two of the generators were already permanently out of service, as they had deteriorated to the point they cannot be put back into service. There is no ability to repair or maintain boilers that suffer age induced failure.
Spending money on maintaining other components would be a complete waste. They were clearly on a winding down schedule for the past few years, whether they publicly announced it or not.
The fact is that the company made a sensible decision to close, and no amount of spin from a politician is going to change that.