In the first of a two-part report, we look at the successes – and the costs – of what once was Australia’s largest power station
in 2018. Kate Coates, the plant’s general manager at time, displayed a smörgåsbord of pulverised or shredded piping, telling visitors: “We can’t ask [her] to run a marathon a few days in a row without her falling over.”Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian
The mammoth multi-year demolition operation to turn the site “cool, dark and dry”, as staffers say, has already begun. Liddell’s two towering smokestacks will be toppled and its eight-metre thick concrete base excavated and crushed on site.AGL expects more than 90% of the materials will be recycled, including 70,000 tonnes of steel, more than the metal used in the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Jarred Burns, who began his 23-year career at Liddell as an apprentice, expects a “mixture of emotions” when he turns up for that final shift. He’ll “be a bit relieved if it all goes out to plan … to make sure that it does do what it’s meant to do”. McNeill was flown by helicopter to Sydney’s Royal North Shore hospital, where he was treated for almost a fortnight.
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