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Powerless: Mt Martha Village business owner Lyndal Barnes says United Energy has been dismissive over concerns that being without power would badly affect traders and their customers. Picture: Yanni
Power outage outrage Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au ANGRY traders and their customers in the Mt Martha shopping strip were reeling on Thursday after United Energy cut the power from 8am-5pm. The power cut was necessary for the removal of one wooden power poles and to put power lines underground. The pole, now replaced by one metal silver lamppost, were taken out to im-
prove views across Port Phillip from a house being built alongside the heritage-listed Green Gables near the Dominion Road corner. Most of the village’s 41 businesses were forced to close their doors or restrict staff hours on what would normally be a busy trading day. The outage, which United Energy said affected 224 “mostly residential” customers, turned the shopping centre into a ghost town.
Traders learned of the outage and closure of the Esplanade and parts of Bay Road by letter on 18 July. Mr Curtis Cafe proprietor Lyndal Barnes, who met with 25 aggrieved traders on Tuesday night, said the “fact-finding session was all about where we could go from here”. “They [United Energy] have been dismissive of us,” she said. “The whole issue could have been better discussed with us rather than them just them de-
ciding it by themselves. “At this time of year when things are slow every bit of income helps. “It is going to hurt everyone. Lots of people in hospitality are casuals and they will lose that day’s work.” United Energy would not say how much would be charged for the day’s work but was rumoured to be $125,000-$320,000. Vince Giuliano, the owner of the house, said he had no idea the reper-
cussions of removing the poles would be so major. “I’m very disappointed,” he said. “At no stage were we told there would be such disruption to traders. It’s very unfortunate and not something we wanted to cause. “The timing was not of our choice.” Mr Giuliano said he understood United Energy had also wanted to do some works to upgrade power supplies to the village “but they were not able to do so”. Continued Page 8
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