Reference to the clarifications by the Power and Energy Ministry and Ceylon Electricity Board engineers in yesterday’s The Island, the reporter regrets the inadvertent reference to her source as a Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union "spokesman". However, the story came from a very senior engineer of the CEB who ceased to be an office bearer of the CEBEU due to recent elections. The letters referred to in the article were exchanged while he was an office bearers and he stands by the facts published. He also told the reporter that the information could be attributed to the CEBEU.

The reporter also made several attempts to contact various officials of the Ceylon Electricity Board and the Ministry (including Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy) for their comments. Only CEB Chairman M. Zubair was available.