Causality

As part of Rio's preparations for the Olympics in 2016 a cycling pathway was built adjacent to a narrow, congested roadway along a picturesque shoreline. When a section collapsed only months before the opening ceremony killing two people, the world looked on with growing concerns about the imminent Olympics.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Deaths on Collapsed Rio de Janeiro Bike Path Deal Safety Blow to Olympic Host
• Anger Grows Over Rio Bike Path Failure - WSJ
• Questions Continue After the Collapse of Rio’s Cycle Path
• Faulty Planning Blamed for Deadly Collapse
• Padlocked and Falling Apart: Rio’s Olympic Legacy
• Bike Lane Collapse Kills People on Beach
• Are Brazil’s Corruption Scandals Finally Hitting the Olympics?
• Rio, the Olympics, and Broken Promises
• Architects Say Rio’s Olympic Bike Path Was Destined to Collapse
• Petition Calls for Complete Demolition of Cycle-path
• Judge Orders Closure of Rio Cycleway

Photo Gallery Links:

• Gallery of A Stretch of Rio de Janeiro’s Tim Maia Bike Path Collapses
• The Collapsed Area of the new Cycle Lane

Links of Interest (Portuguese):

• Queda da Ciclovia: Doações à campanhas feitas pela CONCREMAT e os Grandes Jogos
• Tweet: “‘Podre, tem que fazer tudo outra vez’, diz vice-prefeito sobre ciclovia Tim Maia, no Rio”
• PETIÇÃO PARA A DEMOLIÇÃO DA CICLOVIA DA AVENIDA NIEMEYER

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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.

In 1977, a commuter train from the Blue Mountains, destined for Sydney central station would derail just before Granville Station, causing a bridge to collapse and crush many aboard. It remains Australia's worst ever rail disaster that was predicted by 11 engineering department heads just a year earlier. We look at how management decisions led to a completely avoidable disaster.
With John Chidgey.

This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced

Links of Interest:

• Granville rail disaster
• The Day of the Roses
• Public Transport Commission of NSW
• Granville Train Disaster (Archive.org)
• Turnouts
• CityRail
• Australia’s worst rail disaster
• The Granville Train Disaster Association
• Revisiting the Granville Train Disaster of 1977: Barry Gobbe
• Remembering the Day of the Roses
• Wheel was covered up (Archive.org)
• 45 years since Granville Train Disaster
• Granville Train Disaster Memorial Garden
• The rail disaster that changed Australia
• Mixed response as NSW Government apologises for Australia’s worst train disaster
• Granville Railway Disaster
• Granville train disaster: victims speak out

Formal Investigation Extracts:

• Formal Investigation State Records Authority
• Report on the formal investigation
• Formal Investigation extract: Research Data
• Research Data Australia Search

Informal Investigations:

• Permanent Way Institution Granville Search
• Granville: The Untold Story
• The Granville Train Disaster
• The Granville Disaster

Video:

• Granville Train Disaste...

In 2021 the Callide C Power Station experienced a unit failure that tore the turbine-generator apart, resulted in hundreds of thousands of premises losing power, and cost hundreds of millions to repair. We look at how design errors and ultimately a lack of information led to the incident escalating out of control, when it could have been recovered.
With John Chidgey.

Formal Reports:

• Callide Unit C4 Turbine Generator Failure 25 May 2021 (PDF)
• Animation of the Callide Unit C4 incident
• Trip of multiple generators and lines in Central Queensland and associated under-frequency load shedding on 25 May 2021 (PDF)

News Releases and Articles:

• CS Energy releases report into 2021 Callide C4 Unit Failure
• CS Energy releases technical report into 2021 Unit C4 incident
• Dr Sean Brady to lead independent investigation into Callide incident
• Battery failure led to power plant mass outage
• Both units trip at Callide C on Wednesday 13th January 2021
• Statement regarding IG Power
• Intergen voluntary administration
• Report says Callide C4 incident “could not have been anticipated”
• Callide explosion blamed on battery charger failure
• Callide Power Trading taken to court over system failure
• CS Energy says insurers won’t agree to $300m claim over power station
• Jim Soorley stands down from CS Energy
• CS Energy Post about Incident on LinkedIn

Super-Critical Boilers:

• Super-Critical Boiler Technology (PDF)
• Supercritical Fluids
• Supercritical Coal Plants

Electrical Engineering References:

• Hydrogen-cooled Turbo Generator
• Reverse Active Power Protection (ANSI 32P)

Court Action:

• Alleged failure to obtain regulatory approval to operate a generating system
• Notice of Filing: Australian Energy Regulator v Callide Power Trading Pty Ltd (PDF)
• Coal generator to face court over blackouts caused by catastrophic explosion

General Information:

• Calli...

On Friday the 19th of July, 2024 millions of CrowdStrike Falcon Agents the world over would lead to a Windows system crash on business machines throwing parts of the world into chaos. We look into exactly what caused it and how complacency and a lack of understanding amplified the effect of this wholly preventable incident.
With John Chidgey.

About Causality (TV):

• Introducing Causality TV
• Causality TV Episode 1: CrowdStrike (Video Release)

Formal Report:

• Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident Report
• Channel File 291 Incident Root Cause Analysis (PDF)

News Releases and Articles:

• CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdown
• CrowdStrike Senior Executive Adam Meyers faces CyberSecurity Committee
• CrowdStrike exec apologises before US Congress for software glitch behind July global outage | Reuters
• 1 In 10 Orgs Dumping Their Security Vendors After CrowdStrike Outage

General Information:

• CrowdStrike
• 2024 CrowdStrike incident
• What is CrowdStrike?
• Falcon Content Update Remediation and Guidance Hub
• Antivirus XML Configuration File for CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor
• Named Pipes
• Pipes (Interprocess Communications)
• Wildcard character

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Episode Gold Producers: 'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers: Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring and Ian Gallagher.

The BP Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2005 shocked the world. With many safe-guards in place and lost-time injury rates so low, how could so many people be killed in a wholly preventable disaster?
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• The U.S. Chemical Safety Board
• Texas City Refinery Explosion
• Isomerization
• Human Factors Influencing The Texas City Incident (PDF) (Archive.org)
• Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur
• Diesel Engine Runaway
• BP Completes Sale of Texas City Refinery (Archive.org)
• The Refinery Today (Archive.org)
• Texas City, Texas: Google Maps Location
• BPs Statement of Facts (PDF) (Archive.org)

Notes:

• Original version released: 16th October, 2015
• Re-written and Re-recorded: 20th August, 2023

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Episode Gold Producers: 'r' and Steven Bridle.
Episode Silver Producers: Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Lesley, Jared Roman, Joel Maher, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Dave Jones and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.