Bushfire victim says fines faced by power company 'like getting a speeding ticket'

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Nineteen months after ferocious blazes tore through south-west Victoria, energy giant Powercor faces charges over failing to properly maintain electrical assets that allegedly sparked the fires.

When a raging bushfire tore through the Porters' dairy farm in south-west Victoria on St Patrick's Day last year, Jill and her husband Brad were taking a long-overdue holiday in Tasmania.Energy giant Powercor has been charged over two bushfires that devastated south-west Victoria almost two years ago

Victoria's energy regulator says a detailed investigation and complex legislation led to the delay in charges being laid It was a moment that drove Mrs Porter to help her community recover from the devastation — and to push for someone to be held to account for the fire, which destroyed 18 homes and killed thousands of head of livestock.

 

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