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Arnhem Land primary school paying back $300k bill to Rio Tinto
A remote Northern Territory primary school has been slugged with an unexpected $300,000 electricity bill due to a long-term billing error by power provider and mining giant Rio Tinto.
Key points:
- Rio Tinto provides power to the remote mining township of Nhulunbuy
- The company has blamed an invoicing error for the school’s unexpected bill
- The NT Education Minister said the bill would not affect the school staffing budget
Nhulunbuy Primary School, on the Gove Peninsula in Arnhem Land, is now in the process of paying back the hefty bill, which Rio Tinto said was the fault of an “electricity invoicing discrepancy”.
A spokeswoman for NT Education Minister Lauren Moss confirmed the error from 2019 and said the cash-strapped education department…
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