Woodvale evaporation ponds: residents open to solar plant, but hope it does not delay rehabilitation

Tom O'Callaghan
Updated May 23 2019 - 6:31pm, first published 4:41pm
Woodvale Progress Association president Brendan Bartlett and former GBM Gold Environmental Review Committee community representative Gary Davis at the evaporation ponds. Picture: NONI HYETT
Woodvale Progress Association president Brendan Bartlett and former GBM Gold Environmental Review Committee community representative Gary Davis at the evaporation ponds. Picture: NONI HYETT

WOODVALE residents are concerned a mining company may not be able to raise the $100 million needed to transform a mine's disused evaporation ponds into a solar plant.

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Tom O'Callaghan

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