Article 6AT08 Turning out the lights: what is the legacy of the Liddell power station?

Turning out the lights: what is the legacy of the Liddell power station?

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Peter Hannam
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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

Jackson Channon, an electrician at the Liddell power station, counts three generations of generation" who worked at the Hunter Valley site, including a grandad who drove cement trucks used to build it and parents who first met while on staff.

Come 29 April, Channon will attend the closure of the AGL Energy coal-fired facility, joining hundreds of current and former staff, community members and even artists marking the end of what was Australia's biggest power plant when it was built 52 years ago.

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