Snowy 2, page-34

The pumped hydro insanity continues .................. $12 billion cost before it starts, final cost = 1 or 2 Nuclear power stations??????

"The Queensland government has announced that an investigative drilling program at the site of the proposed Pioneer-Burdekin pumped hydro energy storage project being developed near Mackay in the central Queensland coast has reinforced the suitability of the location to host the $12 billion project.

State government-owned Queensland Hydro, which is developing the project in the Pioneer Valley about 70 kilometres west of Mackay, said the drilling program has revealed the presence of very strong, coarse competent granite rock, confirming the site is an ideal location for dam construction, tunnels, and potentially multiple underground multi-turbine powerhouses."