WA:Minister to order power supplier to accept blame for bushfire

AAP General News (Australia)
01-21-2004
WA:Minister to order power supplier to accept blame for bushfire

Western Australia's energy minister says he'll order the state's power supplier to
accept a report blaming the company for causing a bushfire that killed two women.

A report by Energy Safety, the state's energy watchdog, found that a short-circuit
at power lines caused molten globules to ignite dry stubble which started the fire near
Tenterden, southeast of Perth last month.

Yesterday, Western Power managing director Dr STEPHEN VAN DER MYE refused to apologise
to the families of the dead women, while also saying he was waiting for …