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national energy reporter Daniel Mercer

Foreign-owned mine Griffin Coal bills WA taxpayers $7.3 million to move dirt, fix machines

Keeping Griffin Coal's machines going has been an ongoing problem. (ABC News: Hugh Sando)

West Australian taxpayers have spent millions of dollars propping up a failed foreign-owned coal mine at the centre of the state's energy woes, paying for costs such as repairs to broken machinery. 

In answers to questions in state parliament, the McGowan government has confirmed the receivers of the Griffin Coal mine in WA have drawn down $7.3 million from a $19.5 million grant provided by Treasury.

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