Electricity distribution companies such as Powercor should be made more accountable to maintain their distribution networks in a safe state and not pass on responsibilities to third parties such as insurance companies, local dairy farmers say.
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United Dairyfarmers of Victoria Wannon branch president Bruce Knowles, of Tyrendarra, said it believed electricity distribution companies should be accountable for the financial and emotional costs done to families, employees and communities because of fires caused by unsafe, unstable, ineffective or substandard transmission infrastructure.
The branch is lobbying state, federal and local governments throughout the south-west to push for the reforms.
It also called on the state government to investigate the practices undertaken by electricity distribution companies to maintain the poles and wire power infrastructure in Victorian regional and rural communities.
