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An app which reduces powerline accidents is being made available free by Essential Energy

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Updated April 14 2021 - 11:47pm, first published September 24 2020 - 9:40am
The app will help avoid tragedies such as this, in which a man died on a farm near Orange in 2014, when the spray equipment on the tractor he was driving made contact with power lines.
The app will help avoid tragedies such as this, in which a man died on a farm near Orange in 2014, when the spray equipment on the tractor he was driving made contact with power lines.

The prospect of a bumper harvest in NSW this year has prompted Essential Energy to bring forward the launch of a new app which makes powerline locations and imagery available to the public online, at no cost.

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Tom Gosling

Journalist, Cootamundra Herald

I've had a long career in journalism and corporate communications, starting with country newspapers, radio and TV in northern NSW and including ABC News Sydney and the Melbourne Herald. I edited The University of Sydney News for 10 years, and was Media Officer for CSIRO in Canberra and BHP Steelworks in Port Kembla.