Listed utility SP Ausnet Ltd has filed its defence and counterclaim in legal proceedings before the Supreme Court of Victoria investigating the causes of the Beechworth blaze in the series of fires known as Black Saturday.SP Ausnet, the 51-per-cent owned unit of state-owned Singapore Power, says that while it was responsible for maintaining the regulated clearance space around the power line, the tree that fell was outside this regulated clearance space. Full Story
