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“Spartan work camps” and bad catering: Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro workers strike for more pay
Snowy 2.0 workers to strike, demanding higher pay to make up for poor conditions and food at the delayed and over budget project.
Rachel Williamson

May 20, 2025

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Pumped Hydro

Another delay: Work stopped at all Snowy 2.0 tunnels over safety worries
Major pumped hydro project Snowy 2.0 is delayed again, this time due to worker safety concerns.
Rachel Williamson

Jan 29, 2025

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Pumped Hydro

Snowy buys extra boring machine to support “disappointing” Florence as testing unearths more problems
A new boring machine will be operational by the end of 2025 and supplied by the same company that made the “disappointing” and frequently stuck Florence.
Rachel Williamson

Aug 26, 2024

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Pumped Hydro

New consultation round opened for giant pumped hydro project
Queensland Hydro is setting up three different consultation avenues for locals to weigh in on the 2GW/24h Borumba project.
Rachel Williamson

Jul 10, 2024

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Storage

Snowy 2.0’s updated business case is flawed, again
Last week an updated Business Case for Snowy 2.0 was released. Like every aspect of this hapless, over-hyped project it is late, inadequate, and unrealistically optimistic.
Ted Woodley

May 30, 2024

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Storage

Slow progress at Snowy 2.0, with more “challenging” conditions ahead and a Florence clone
Snowy Hydro CEO says boring machine Florence needs to tunnel about 15 metres a day to keep Snowy 2.0 on track and says a fourth boring machine could be on the cards if the going gets tough again.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 13, 2024

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Another dud Snowy Hydro project, squandering over $1.5bn of taxpayers’ money
Snowy Hydro’s Hunter Power Project has kept a low profile compared to Snowy 2.0 – but it has a strikingly similar list of troubles sending it over budget and off schedule.
Ted Woodley

Dec 6, 2023

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Storage

Truth behind Snowy 2.0 cost blowout buried with Florence, Senate Estimates hears
The Snowy 2.0 reset report has been comprehensively redacted, offering little insight into the project’s doubling of costs.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 24, 2023

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Storage

Snowy 2.0 documents suggest the $12 billion project’s boring troubles are far from over
A planning application to fix Snowy 2.0 sinkhole and un-pause Florence offers insight into how the boring machine got stuck – and why more troubles could lie ahead.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 6, 2023

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Storage

Snowy 2 Much: How can a 2.2GW water battery be worth more than $12 billion?
The Snowy Hydro “reset” comes with no details or analysis. The Australian public, as the ultimate shareholders, must be provided with a comprehensive report, not just a two page media release.
Ted Woodley

Sep 1, 2023

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Storage

“Australia’s biggest engineering debacle:” Snowy 2.0 costs double again to reported $12bn
Experts call for an independent review of Snowy 2.0 as costs of the controversial project are reported to have doubled again to $12 billion, not including transmission.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 30, 2023

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Snowy 2.0 usage set to plummet by 2050 – and VNI West won’t save it
Reports reveal VNI West will not increase Snowy 2.0’s transmission capacity to Victoria at all – and that the usage of Snowy 2.0 will plummet after 2050.
Ted Woodley

May 18, 2023

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