Nana Flint
Right. Six hundred and thirty-seven gigalitres. That's how much water it takes to fill the old Hazelwood coal pit, over ten to twenty years.
On the record: the mine shut in 2017. Engie, the owner, wants to turn the hole into a lake. Rae Mackay, the former rehab commissioner and a hydrogeologist, says the water gives the pit walls a force to lean on and makes the land usable again.
Side two: Luke Stuckey farms Angus bulls at Flynn. He calls it an absolute waste of quality water, and stream flows in the Latrobe Basin are down thirty per cent since 1997.
My two bob? Both of them are right, and that's the trouble. Yallourn and Loy Yang close later. Whose river fills those holes?
Source: ABC News, 2026-04-08
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