The hidden cost of the Hazelwood coal power plant

By Tom Arup and Adam Morton
Updated April 19 2015 - 10:08am, first published 9:29am
Hazelwood Power Station. Photo: Justin McManus
Hazelwood Power Station. Photo: Justin McManus

The Hazelwood brown coal power plant is a survivor. As one of Victoria's largest emitters of greenhouse gas, it has been the focus of a decade-long campaign to shut it by environmentalists, and the target of two unsuccessful government attempts to pay for its closure.

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