"Headless Chicken" describes the Whirinaki relocation idea perfectly Trumpy. I'm not sure but isn't it a coal-fired generator ?

A great big filthy belching smokestack is just what Ch Ch DOESN'T need right now. ( bit of a NIMBY there ).

A large project like that is a great boost to the local economy for sure, but can't we come up with something a little more practical.

Man I'm beginning to sound like a Greeny!

Rant: Privatisation has turned our national grid into a stockmarket in which modern-day pirates are free to extort and plunder. End of Rant.

Commercial law prevents tax-payers from obtaining full transparency from our privatised power providers and therefore the culture of bludgers prevails in the generation / transmission sectors. O.K. end of rant there.