Port Denison residents consider legal action over ongoing power network failures

 Residents of a regional West Australian community are threatening legal action against Western Power as ongoing outages bring more than a decade of frustration to a boiling point.

Located about 350 kilometres north of Perth, Port Denison and Dongara are at the end of a long feeder line from Geraldton.

Infrastructure supplying power to the towns is spread out across a wide area and is exposed to the elements.

This summer, the total duration of outages in the towns exceeded 30 hours. 

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/port-denison-ongoing-power-network-failures/102117020




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