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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Matthew Kelly

'Not the way I want to die': plea for Premier to intervene in power line plan

Ian Barry and his wife Vicki at their Cedar Creek home on Friday. Picture by Peter Lorimer.

Australian film and television director Ian Barry is living through a personal horror movie as he battles the state government over plans to run renewable energy transmission infrastructure across his picturesque Hunter property.

Mr Barry, who has advanced motor neurone disease, hopes he can hold on long enough to stop EnergyCo from acquiring a section of his home of 30 years for an easement needed as part of the Hunter Transmission Project.

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