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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Peter Hannam

Snowy Hydro 2.0 eyes return to tunnelling after delays and cost blowouts

Snowy Snowy Hydro Dennis Barnes Chris Bowen Webuild
The Tantangara dam Snowy Hydro 2.0 site, where a tunnel boring machine hit soft ground in 2022 and was unable to continue.
The Tantangara dam Snowy Hydro 2.0 site, where a tunnel boring machine hit soft ground in 2022 and was unable to continue. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Snowy Hydro’s bogged tunnel boring machine could resume work within weeks – a key step to getting the “critical” pumped hydro project now expected to cost $12bn back on track.

Dennis Barnes, Snowy’s chief executive, says the revised contract with the builders of the 2.0 project – Italy-based WeBuild – is still in its “final stages” but he expects it to be signed off soon.

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