Work has begun on the Queensland government’s $5 billion long-awaited project to build a power transmission line from Townsville to Mount Isa, with the first soil turned on the construction of staff accommodation.
The work at Hughenden, a small North Queensland town 1400 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, is the first construction work on the CopperString electricity transmission project to install an 840-kilometre high-voltage line between the two cities.
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Tess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter. Connect with Tess on Twitter. Email Tess at tess.bennett@afr.com
