On a wintry afternoon in the Snowy Mountains town of Cooma a month ago, about a dozen officials from Snowy Hydro, its Future Generation partners and unions huddled in a meeting room to take stock of the much-delayed Snowy 2.0 project.
Of primary concern was the status of giant tunnel boring machine number three, dubbed Florence by Snowy, that had been stuck in soft rock for almost half a year after barely drilling more than its 140-odd-metre length. A large sinkhole had also opened up, reaching the surface.
