THE power company being sued by victims of the Black Saturday bushfires is expected to spread the blame to the CFA and the state government in an attempt to reduce its potentially massive legal liability.Senior government sources told The Sunday Age there was a ''real chance'' that Singapore-owned power distributor SP AusNet would join government agencies as co-defendants to the hundreds-of-millions of dollars class action related to the Kinglake fire.
This could mean taxpayers' money could be paid out to victims, with SP AusNet arguing in the Supreme Court that CFA warnings and firefighting was inadequate, and that the government's backburning program, or planning policies, made the fire's devastation worse. Full Story
