Chief Minister Eva Lawler has ordered a review into the cause of Monday’s widespread power outage following gas pipeline owner APA indicating that a gas supply issue led to the power disruption that affected 20,000 customers in 19 suburbs in Darwin, Palmerston and Katherine.
The Opposition has also raised concerns about the stability of the energy grid amid perceived inaction by the Labor Government to effectively plan for the NT’s energy future.
We are in a precarious position since Blacktip field started to reach its end. It appears that this source of gas failing was never considered. We have supposedly been paying for more gas than we were using and the pipeline was extended to Mt Isa to use the excess. This makes a mockery of Labor plans to become an energy and mineral powerhouse (no pun intended) Not only are they failing to keep us safe but are flat out keeping the lights on.