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Media Release - 1 July 2009
It’s four am in the morning, still dark and the Power and Water crews in Katherine are again patrolling powerlines and removing dead bats that have clustered around powerline insulators and caused an outage. Line crews have been called out 25 times since just last Thursday, with the Mataranka electricity feeder being the most affected by bats.
28 June 2009
Being suspended more than 50 metres in the air is all in a day’s work for our crews. Take for example work last week to replace equipment on a 132kV high voltage line, 600 metres across the Elizabeth River in a special bosun’s chair fastened to the powerline.
24 June 2009
A joint maintenance and training exercise will take place more than 50 metres above the Elizabeth River today when Power and Water employees will hang suspended in a powered bosun’s chair on one of the 132kV high voltage lines.
18 June 2009 - Media Release
A briefing session by Power and Water next week will provide local industry an overview of the third stage of the Weddell Power Station and encourage them to participate in the project.
17 June 2009 - Media Release
The winners of the Power and Water 2009 Melaleuca Awards for environmental excellence were announced this evening at Burnett House, Darwin. The Awards have been presented since 2003 recognising the environmental initiatives and efforts of the community across Territory schools, businesses, community groups and individuals.
12 June 2009
It’s been just four months since Mervyn Davies handed down his final report into the Northern Territory’s power networks and Power and Water has already achieved significant progress with the introduction of a series of measures to improve maintenance and training.
11 June 2009 - Media Release
Schools compete for 2009 Melaleuca Environmental Excellence Award
Power and Water Corporation’s annual Melaleuca Awards were developed in 2003 to recognise outstanding achievement in environmental excellence in the Northern Territory. This year five schools have been nominated in the ‘Schools’ category of the Awards to be announced next Wednesday.
Submissions have been received from Darwin primary schools at Millner, Nightcliff and Larrakeyah, three submissions were made by Living Waters in Alice Springs, and one by Papunya School in the Papunya Community 252kms north-west of Alice Springs.