NSW industry fight against new power polesFriday 16 Aug 2024
The government-owned power infrastructure company, which services 95% of NSW, says the change is necessary to boost its network's resilience to events like the Black Summer fires. During that disaster over the summer of 2019 and 2020, more than 104,000 customers were affected by power outages across the company's network, and more than 3,200 power poles were damaged. But the shift has upset some in the timber industry, which supplies the wooden poles that have long been used. James Jooste is the NSW chief executive of the Australian Forest Products Association and has called on the government to direct Essential Energy to continue using hardwood poles. He says there's an absence of evidence to show composite poles are more fire-resistant than wooden ones. More >> Source: South Coast Register Image credit: AFPA NSW | ||
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