Snowy Hydro looks to resume boring within weeks pending environmental approvals

Proposed changes include a slurry plant to help dig through soft rock, as National Parks Association says ‘enormous damage’ caused already

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Snowy Hydro hopes it will finally be able to resume boring on the main tunnel of its giant 2.0 pumped hydro project within six weeks after it gets new environment approvals from the New South Wales government.

Work on a 17km tunnel that will link a future underground power station to Tantangara dam in the Kosciuszko national park has been stalled since December after a tunnel boring machine – dubbed Florence – got stuck in unexpectedly soft rock just 70m in.

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