Dennis Barnes is refreshingly blunt about the key problems that have crippled Snowy 2.0 since then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull triumphantly sold a $2 billion vision in 2017 as the nation-building lead-in to Australia’s renewable energy transition.
According to Barnes, what was never properly considered was the complexity of the massive pumped hydro project – including 40 kilometres of tunnelling through uncertain mountainous geology in a national park.
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