Hydropower
Eight years after Berta Cáceres’ murder is there new hope for justice?
The Honduran Indigenous and environmental leader was shot in 2016 for her opposition to an internationally financed dam, but despite violence and threats, the net is closing on the murder’s alleged ‘mastermind’
Fritz Pinnow in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
01, Apr, 2024 @9:30 PM
Men risked their lives to work on the Snowy Hydro scheme. Now, 75 years on, the 2.0 project represents a different world
Rugged adventurers who toiled in dangerous conditions to create the hydroelectricity scheme would scarcely recognise today’s technological advances
Peter Hannam
26, Feb, 2024 @2:00 PM
Snowy Hydro’s 2.0 fortunes might finally be turning as drilling gets back on track
Just over half of the project’s construction is already complete as the project’s previously stalled 2,500-tonne tunnelling machine returns to the grind
Peter Hannam
22, Feb, 2024 @2:00 PM
‘He had a machete in his cheek’: how Guatemala’s hydropower dream turned deadly
Sebastián Alonzo is one of 1,335 land defenders killed in Latin America, since 2012. His community in Guatemala continues to fight water expropriation
Paloma de Dinechin in Ixquisis, Guatemala
22, Jan, 2024 @12:00 PM
Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done
Stung by 2008’s oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit?
Sam Meadows in Montevideo
27, Dec, 2023 @9:00 AM
It’s one of Europe’s last pristine rivers. Can scientists save it from 50 dams?
The Neretva, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is one of the most biodiverse rivers on the continent – supporting bears, wolves, lynx and many rare species – but more than 50 planned dams could permanently transform the ecosystem
Karen McVeigh
17, Nov, 2023 @5:00 AM
Snowy Hydro 2.0 eyes return to tunnelling after delays and cost blowouts
Chief executive says pumped hydro project remains ‘critical’ to energy transition away from fossil fuels
Peter Hannam
01, Sep, 2023 @12:44 AM
Snowy Hydro 2.0 costs blowout confirmed to be almost $13bn
The revised estimate for the scheme is contingent on completion by end of 2028 and may rise further if delays persist
Peter Hannam
31, Aug, 2023 @4:50 AM
$5.9bn and rising: Snowy 2.0 wrestles with delays and budget blowouts
Much is riding on its success – not least the decarbonisation of the electricity grid – but critics say an independent review is desperately needed
Peter Hannam
17, Jun, 2023 @8:00 PM
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
Peter Hannam
11, Jun, 2023 @11:00 PM
Thousands flee homes as collapse of dam is blamed on Russian forces
Ukrainian authorities call for people living downstream of Nova Kakhovka dam to evacuate in face of potentially deadly flooding
Dan Sabbagh in Kherson and Julian Borger in Kyiv
06, Jun, 2023 @9:10 PM
Explosives equipment missing from massive Snowy Hydro work site
Worksafe NSW launches investigation as site staff told missing detonator and accelerant require other components to activate
Peter Hannam
01, Jun, 2023 @8:44 AM
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