Broken Hill Mayor Tom Kennedy wants Transgrid to cover the cost of the regional town’s sudden power outage, warning the power grid manager could be fined tens of millions of dollars if its systems emergency aid turned out to be defective.

Residents in and around the New South Wales mining town near the border with South Australia are still trying to recover from a sudden October 17 storm that destroyed seven transmission towers run by the private company Transgrid, which is blocking the single 260 kilometer power line. bringing electricity to the Broken Hill area.

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