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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Better days ahead for Florence after a very dark year

The Snow Hydro 2.0 project is expected to cost $12 billion - six times more than forecast. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Life's been hard of late for Florence but after a collapse, a breakdown and a very dark year, the tunnel borer is back on solid ground.

The machine has managed to chew through 241 metres of earth since the it was freed two months ago, after an entire year stuck hard and fast beneath Kosciuszko National Park.

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