Queensland to spend $5bn on 1,100km CopperString power line to unlock renewables potential
by Ben Smee from Environment | The Guardian on (#69H69)
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The Queensland government has said it will take control of a $5bn proposal to build a 1,100km power line connecting Mount Isa to the national grid, which it says will unlock" development of new-economy mineral deposits in the state's north west.
The project, known as CopperString 2.0, has long been touted as necessary to provide future energy certainty to Queensland's north-west minerals province, where miners are considering the potential to extract large amounts of copper, cobalt, vanadium, lead, zinc and phosphate.
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