"From a community perspective, [the reopening of the mine] is a great thing and everybody gets their hopes up, and then it doesn't happen and we are all worse off," he said."We considered that request and offered to defer part of the current rates until he got underway, but he didn't accept that offer," he said.
"His company bought the mine and one would have assumed as part of their due diligence they would have looked at how much the rates and charges to the local council were. "My understanding is that … an underground mining engineer who actually worked there when it opened has been engaged to do a little bit of preparatory work on reopening the underground, but to my knowledge that's the only thing that happened," he said.He said at least a dozen people were employed on a full-time basis, and the council rates were"unconstitutional" and"potentially illegal".
No all Aussies 'should stop paying electricity bills!'