[LINK] Tasmanians to be forced to connect to NBN under new laws

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Oct/09, at 1:07 AM, Paul Brooks wrote:

>  On 8/10/2010 9:14 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> At 01:13 PM 8/10/2010, Paul Brooks wrote:
>>>  and they may well be able to walk on the land,
>>> but I'm pretty sure they don't have any rights to actually drill
>>> holes in your wall
>>> and attach things to your building without explicit permission.
>> They must do. SP Ausnet just yanked out my old meter, attached a new
>> 'smart' meter, and attached an antenna, no permission requested. I
>> was told this was going to happen,  power going off for a few
>> minutes, tough if I didn't like it.
> Do you have an electricity supply contract? You would have given  
> them permission to
> modify the equipment used to deliver the service as part of signing  
> up - and the meter
> is their property after all.
>
> If you did not have a mains power supply contract, no pre-existing  
> meter, no
> meter-box, no existing power cabling from the street (perhaps you  
> are self-sufficient
> with solar and one of these <http://www.cfcl.com.au/BlueGen/>), and  
> they turned up out
> of the blue one day to bolt one on 'just in case you ever wanted  
> mains power', they
> would be trespassing.

You forget that easements may be written into your property deeds, the  
contract may have happened a long time ago or that they may need or  
decide to go through your property to get to another.

> (The scenario actually works better with gas, but anyhoo... )


gas, water, sewerage.  I don't believe you can get out of sewerage  
connection where it's available.  Maybe if you can prove you have a  
full treatment works onsite.   Of course I don't think they can take  
it to your house.


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