McKINLAY Shire Mayor Belinda Murphy says Julia Creek has no plans to remove itself from Ergon Energy’s electrical grid.
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‘‘We’ve never thought about cutting from the grid,’’ she said.
Cr Murphy was responding to an article published in the July 16 edition of The North West Star, where her comments were taken out of context.
It was stated in that article that any building cut from the grid could not return to the electrical grid.
The article made it sound like she was threatening Ergon, Cr Murphy said, but this was not the case.
Cr Murphy said McKinlay Shire and Ergon Energy were working with each other.
The condition was that Julia Creek could not generate its own electricity and plug it back into the grid, she said.
This would not be a problem. ‘‘We are not trying to make money back into the grid,’’ Cr Murphy said. She said she was not commenting specifically on Julia Creek’s solar project, but was discussing the general issue of the electrical ‘‘death spiral’’ in Australia, which was discussed on Four Corners.
