Snowy Hydro 2.0 hits snag as bushfires race through project

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The beleaguered Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme is facing another setback, after bushfires hit the renewable energy project on multiple fronts.

"We had back-burnt, we had cleared areas … the fire did breach those barriers that we put in and just spread from one house to the next," Mr Broad said."We've got a video of the fire approaching and it is just unbelievable how quickly it hit us, within minutes it came over the hill and hit the site.

"We will rebuild, though. Let me be clear, we will rebuild … and do so in a way that will protect us all from the future fires that will inevitably come." Workers attempted to fire-proof the remote Snowy 2.0 site before evacuating, and are currently unable to access the site to inspect the damage. The Federal Government's hydroelectricity investments will enable renewable energy to completely replace coal-fired power."We would have lost a significant amount of equipment, it would become very dangerous now with trees falling, so the clean-up will be fairly large," he said.Victoria's power in the firing line

 

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Clarke_Melissa snowyhydro Climate and energy agnostic johnhoward should have already build Snowy2 . Our governments full of Howard scholars have no idea how urgent these projects are. When we get the next oil war in the Middle East, there will be diesel shortages auspol

A cost of climate change impacts simonahac ?

A bit more on the hundreds of Australia being arrested for arson would be nice ? it seems really really relevant, it seems you wan't to go there for some reason ?.

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