Power cut to trade

SOME CBD businesses are counting the costs after a faulty underground cable cut power to 126 premises on Lake and Abbott streets on Friday night.

The Woolshed nightclub owner Dominic Davies was one of those affected and said he would not recoup earnings on a traditionally busy trading time.

Power was lost between 9pm and midnight.

“It had a dramatic impact

Part of an event organised by Stop Adani Cairns and Douglas Shire Sustainability Group, attendees formed the words “Stop Adani, Coral Not Coal” on the sand.

Great Barrier Reef Legacy marine biologist Dr Dean Miller on our sales, as one would expect. It was a bit disappointing,” he said. “Basically, (patrons) all went over the said it was fantastic to see the members of the public turn out to the event.

“The government should be protecting the Great Barrier Reef in its time of crisis,” he said. Douglas Shire Council mayor Julia Leu spoke at the road to PJs because they had power.

“I don’t expect it to have any long-term effects, we were event reiterating that the shire was the second local government in Australia to formally oppose the Adani coal mine.

After playing two gigs in the Far North, Midnight Oil travelled to Vlasoff Cay to unveil a “Coral Not Coal” banner. back doing our usual trade on Saturday night.

“But, it’s just a write off for that night. We were just lucky

But Kennedy MP Bob Katter said it was a fallacy that renewable power sources were cleaner.

“I do not accept the conventional wisdom that says you get 10 times more CO2 from coal than solar,” he said. because usually we’d have functions booked but that Friday night we didn’t.

“It’s peak season right now. This is the time of the year when our business really goes strongly.”

An Ergon Energy spokesman said investigations would start today into the cause of the outage.

“We know there is a problem with the underground cable and we have redirected power from the network to these premises,” he said.

The spokesman said it was unlikely the issue would recur.