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Developer dumps 166-turbine wind project proposed for Queensland’s Whitsunday region
The 900MW project made it almost all the way through the federal environmental assessment process, but pulled up stumps before seeking state planning permits.
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Transgrid’s latest cost blowout raises a key question: What was the point of privatising energy networks?
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