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In the town of Jabiru, things are slowly getting back to normal after a silly season marked by three days of rolling blackouts beginning on New Year’s Eve. Temporary diesel generators are still in use as the conversation now turns to who will pay for the disruption.

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00:00Restocking the dairy section at the Kakadu supermarket.
00:06Our refrigeration was playing havoc because we couldn't keep up the power going off and on.
00:12So we had a little bit of milk, some fruit and veg that we had to throw away that got warm and couldn't sell.
00:18One of the town's biggest power consumers, the store is still running off one of the temporary diesel generators
00:24rushed to the town by power and water after major engine failures at the local power station, operated by company EDL.
00:32It'll be good to hear what happened and what they're doing so it's not going to happen again.
00:37EDL says one diesel generator failed on Christmas Day, but it wasn't until a second generator blew on New Year's Eve
00:44that the company told power and water it was going to fall short of power demand, and the blackouts began.
00:50We ended up spending the countdown and over New Year's on our tiles just to cool down with the dogs.
00:59We're laying on the cold tiles.
01:01As for who pays, the company's CEO says Territory Taxpayers won't be footing the bill for the emergency generators and fuel.
01:09They will not be out of pocket for this because we are responsible.
01:13I am personally responsible as the CEO of EDL for what's happened here.
01:17We will fix it and we will make sure this never happens again.
01:19EDL says it's happy to talk about compensation once the dust settles.
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