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Inside the engineering megaproject that went horribly wrong | Four Corners

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2023 ж. 22 Қаз.
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Australia’s Snowy 2.0 was sold as a nation-building megaproject for a low-carbon future - and was meant to be feeding power into the grid by the end of 2024.
Instead, the pumped hydro project, which was once estimated to cost $2 billion, is four years behind schedule and now forecast to hit $12 billion.
In this documentary, Four Corners reveals the inside story of Snowy 2.0 and how it all went so horribly wrong.
Reporter Angus Grigg challenges its founding champion, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who says as much as $2 billion of the cost blow out can be traced back to a massive tunnel boring machine called Florence.
Florence is currently stuck.
Read more about this story here: www.abc.net.au/news/102995568
This episode was originally broadcast as ‘Tunnel Vision’ on 23 October 2023 on ABC TV and ABC iview.
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  • Politician becomes engineering guru after reading a articles. What could go wrong?

    @iceman4660@iceman46606 ай бұрын

  • " I was wrong ", now there is a comment that you will never hear a politician say.

    @linoiovenitti7207@linoiovenitti72075 ай бұрын

  • "It may affect the contractors reputation" It damn well should affect them, that work is dangerous but worker safety is a must!

    @Enonymouse_@Enonymouse_6 ай бұрын

  • I can't think of a single infrastructure project that DIDN'T go way over budget. It doesn't help that contractors immediately bump up their prices as soon as they see the words 'government project'.

    @philhogan5623@philhogan56236 ай бұрын

  • I'm learning as i go, he's a funny bastard 🤣

    @philanderson2220@philanderson22206 ай бұрын

  • So, it's not a $2 billion mistake, it's a $12 billion mistake and that is if they don't overrun their current projections which is very dubious.

    @kirkjohnson6638@kirkjohnson66386 ай бұрын

  • People can’t pick a flower in a national park but these guys can trash it.

    @TheFrogga69@TheFrogga695 ай бұрын

  • Mismanagement of public funds in the billions. Why isn't a public inquiry called and pple held accountable? The public needs to know.

    @nedenede@nedenede6 ай бұрын

  • They cheaped out on geological studies ?

    @trojanhatchet8204@trojanhatchet82046 ай бұрын

  • It seems that florence shouldn't have been used until they were deeper and in the hard rock.The company in charge of the tunnelling should have known this so therefore they should pay all the extra costs not us the taxpayers.

    @mickking5913@mickking59136 ай бұрын

  • This is comparable to watching children playing in a sandbox and discovering the different properties of wet-sand vs. dry-sand. The public is being taken for a ride, in my opinion.

    @christophero1969@christophero19695 ай бұрын

  • Not in my back yard always seems the response to any proposed infrastructure project. But with that said fair compensation should always be on offer.

    @prizecowproductions@prizecowproductions6 ай бұрын

  • Skip the video to 22.20 minutes in to begin watching before starting at the beginning of the video. Whoever choose the order of events should have put the quick overview of this project first

    @dedrakuhn6103@dedrakuhn61035 ай бұрын

  • This has $100 billion written all over it by the time they get this done. Isn't one of the reasons you release the names of companies with safety violations is to affect their reputation? Unbelievable

    @leskobrandon691@leskobrandon6916 ай бұрын

  • Curious as to why the tunnels must be under ground rather than on top of the ground? 2nd question is Snowy 1.0 still making power while this project is underway? Looks like they could have had a nuclear power plant for about the same amount of money, and that actually makes power instead of simply being a battery.

    @RedpointFive@RedpointFive5 ай бұрын

  • Looks like a few people did alright off it...

    @user-uk8qt9zl6k@user-uk8qt9zl6k6 ай бұрын

  • 6 times the budget.. someone is taking the piss

    @ybet1000@ybet10006 ай бұрын

  • The project should have been cancelled after the geology assessment was done.

    @actualfacts1055@actualfacts10555 ай бұрын

  • Turnbull’s involvement would explain the failure. Just like his NBN fiasco.

    @marklock1238@marklock12386 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for my retirement job 😂, I'll be here till the end😂😂

    @travishaines7410@travishaines74106 ай бұрын

  • Oh crap , they tunneled ahead and ignored it :-) They knew it was soft !

    @scottgordon1781@scottgordon17816 ай бұрын

  • Follow the money; it is always about the money.

    @oscarpadron6514@oscarpadron65146 ай бұрын

  • We recently all learnt about ocean depth pressure. Next subject is slurry.

    @captainpoppleton@captainpoppleton6 ай бұрын

  • "I'm learning as I go" is not what you want to hear from an "Expert"

    @-JonnyBoy-@-JonnyBoy-5 ай бұрын

    • Exactly. I could've done this dude's job for half the salary and still learnt as I went. I coulda saved the government some cash.

      @seventyfive4899@seventyfive48995 ай бұрын

    • I'm an engineer. This is the way every bespoke engineering project works. We marshall all the knowledge we have about the various domains involved, but there are always novel circumstances and constraints, and constant learning is required.

      @makego@makego5 ай бұрын

  • Hold on... Wait a minute... Is this *_Four Corners_* or is it *_UTOPIA_* ???

    @Anamnesia@Anamnesia6 ай бұрын

  • This is an old and true statement; if you want a project screwed up, involve the government.

    @geraldhagen2989@geraldhagen29896 ай бұрын

  • Better us blowing out a renewable energy project to 12 Billion than buying a war submarine for 368 Billion.

    @irellevant906@irellevant9066 ай бұрын

  • As my dad used to say, poor planning produces piss poor performance. Thanks Turdball

    @paulchasteauneuf2098@paulchasteauneuf20986 ай бұрын

    • Prior planning prevents piss poor performance

      @AlexBint@AlexBint6 ай бұрын

    • I remember this old electrician used to tell me “ Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance “

      @jonramsey6348@jonramsey63486 ай бұрын

    • 12 Billion is small change compared to the nuclear subs or what is spent on public transport in Sydney and Victoria. Although it is annoying, in the long term it is a worthwhile investment. As far as bad decisions go let's not forget the 5 billion Scomo paid to France to get out of the sub contract and we didn't get anything for that.,

      @rwo5402@rwo54026 ай бұрын

  • If it started with a politician it was doomed from the start. If it started with a politician like Malcom Turnbull, we were all doomed from the start

    @TheGronk@TheGronk6 ай бұрын

  • Anyone old enough or paying enough attention should see the pattern here. :)

    @bobbyjohn2768@bobbyjohn27686 ай бұрын

  • Love the comment about battery development and storage having less environmental impact, maybe on his land but not the environment or the poor people who mine the resources to make them.

    @peterjones9732@peterjones97325 ай бұрын

    • We need hydro and batteries

      @harrygroundwater2590@harrygroundwater25905 ай бұрын

    • There’s never a free lunch. Somewhere someone else has to pay for it.

      @ecleveland1@ecleveland15 ай бұрын

  • Turnbull strikes again.

    @lukenovotny5638@lukenovotny56386 ай бұрын

  • Love the double entendre: "Tunnel Vision". I'll say! ABC journalism at its best and keeping the public abreast.

    @matthewsheeran@matthewsheeran6 ай бұрын

  • What's an extra 10 bil between friends 😅😅

    @emanuel290@emanuel2906 ай бұрын

  • Don't people realise this is how construction companies work? It doesnt matter what kind and who they are... this is par the course for big construction gigs.

    @DoubtingThomas333@DoubtingThomas3336 ай бұрын

  • There’s small mistakes and then there’s HUGE mistakes that we all pay for. Promising outcomes seems to be the Australian infliction.

    @annaclarke7643@annaclarke76436 ай бұрын

  • Going 6 times over budget seems to be acceptable but running power lines under ground ruled out as to expensive is just double talk. You're already 6 times over budget. Run the lines under ground and all are happy

    @skin2117@skin21176 ай бұрын

  • Utopia in real life.

    @trj1442@trj14426 ай бұрын

  • didn't they check the land composition before drilling

    @user-fl2wn5zr5z@user-fl2wn5zr5z6 ай бұрын

  • How painful to have to hear Scomo's fake blokey accent again.

    @lours6993@lours69936 ай бұрын

  • Show me a government project that hasn’t gone over budget or over time

    @kevinsteele2773@kevinsteele27735 ай бұрын

  • This is why your cost of living is high. Government taxing the sh!t out of people to cover these money black holes.

    @PunsaraSagarage@PunsaraSagarage5 ай бұрын

  • Nice how they spend taxpayers money like it’s there own bottomless wallet

    @FreeAsABirdSydneyAustralia@FreeAsABirdSydneyAustralia6 ай бұрын

  • It would be nice to watch a documentary without the unnecessary music mush.

    @peteypops@peteypops6 ай бұрын

  • "We've learned a lot" "We've learned a few things" -Dennis Barnes

    @squeakyrabbit@squeakyrabbit6 ай бұрын

  • Surprise surprise the ABC didn’t interview the current Labor government and ask them why they haven’t cancelled this renewable energy disaster before we waste more billions!

    @davidlock3695@davidlock36956 ай бұрын

  • When you call the project as a scheme, there you have it.

    @criticaluplink@criticaluplink5 ай бұрын

  • That's not a sink hole. Look at what happened in Lane Cove. Every concrete truck in Sydney filling it for 2 days. Now that was a sink hole.

    @philscott7949@philscott79495 ай бұрын

  • This doesn't sound any different from any other large infrastructure project.

    @wheelitzr2@wheelitzr26 ай бұрын

  • Turnbull was only concerned about ensuring his stock portfolio kept getting healthier........what a shill. Nice one captain NBN.

    @matthoskin3572@matthoskin35726 ай бұрын

  • It would have been humiliating for Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party if the project had been found to be unfeasible. Political pressure drove Florence into the mud, and she's taking our money and worker safety down with it.

    @Kurt_Philanderer@Kurt_Philanderer6 ай бұрын

  • They should have a statue of Saint Leprechaun ... the St of Good Luck ☘

    @kevwills858@kevwills8586 ай бұрын

  • 5:39, when have you EVER heard a CEO here in the US say those words, I can't remember that I have.

    @sundance2005@sundance20056 ай бұрын

  • Was she amazing or what?The nice farm lady with cane in one hand and digging tool in other.😊

    @zerkfiter@zerkfiter6 ай бұрын

  • my drunk mistakes are not as expensive

    @skippydeenice@skippydeenice5 ай бұрын

  • One has to wonder who benefits from these government infrastructure projects with their massive cost overruns its surely not the tax payer.. Is it a lack of educated workforce or private corporation greed? If this wasn't a government backed project you can bet your life the project team would've been sacked for cost overruns and not hitting milestones like with any semi competent organisation in the modern world..

    @kwhblade@kwhblade6 ай бұрын

  • How goods butter chicken?!?!! Scotty, such a man of the people....

    @dr3857@dr38576 ай бұрын

  • The first thing they say. I’m proud.

    @MrFiftymill@MrFiftymill6 ай бұрын

  • "27km of tunnels can never stack up economically or technically " Man doesn't know about the 50km channel tunnel

    @adamjones4951@adamjones49515 ай бұрын

  • Large scale batteries, ???? what does he think they're made of, and how they were made????

    @chrisblue46@chrisblue465 ай бұрын

  • Underground power through farm land is insanely expensive not only to install but maintain, small price to pay

    @jazzeejax5816@jazzeejax58165 ай бұрын

  • It will get built and work eventually. Like every other huge nation building project we’ve had.

    @lillibitjohnson7293@lillibitjohnson72936 ай бұрын

  • Yet the original snowy mountains scheme was finished early AND under budget

    @sutherlandA1@sutherlandA15 ай бұрын

  • Sounds like a failure of planning and surveying rather than problem of contractors....

    @kylesmith8128@kylesmith81285 ай бұрын

  • It seems that the tunnel machine is not travelling deep enough. Having a tunell barely below the surface is a mistake. Seismic testing along the route should have picked this up. Backing up the machine is a huge problem in itself. Perhaps digging out the sink hole, fortifying it, and steering downwards may be the only solution. At least the sink hold has road access. Perhaps calling quits is the best option.

    @cinemaipswich4636@cinemaipswich46366 ай бұрын

  • I wish these big dreamers good luck.

    @dimensionaltravelerchanga1072@dimensionaltravelerchanga10726 ай бұрын

  • I’m sad, Florence is all alone and has no friends 😥 #saveflorencethetbm

    @outwestcreatives127@outwestcreatives1276 ай бұрын

  • Just build it and once it’s done. Nobody will remember the cost…. Remember the Sydney Opera House

    @Mark-ok8ss@Mark-ok8ss5 ай бұрын

  • A very interesting and thought provocing documentary.

    @michaeljohn7398@michaeljohn73985 ай бұрын

  • Fail to plan, plan to fail.

    @hvacdesignsolutions@hvacdesignsolutions6 ай бұрын

  • The contractors should be held to their original tender price and bear the cost of their mistakes.

    @martinwyke@martinwyke6 ай бұрын

    • That will never happen

      @evil17@evil175 ай бұрын

  • I'm learning as I go! WTF? Calling concrete 'cement segments' is this guy for real? What is he doing there?

    @chapmansbg@chapmansbg6 ай бұрын

  • I Love Australia,,,,, Kiss Hug from New Zealand

    @robertmiller2173@robertmiller21735 ай бұрын

  • I'm pretty sure the first mistake was thinking any idea thought up at a pub...... shouldn't stay in the pub. Don't get me wrong, pubs are a great place to come with shi......I mean stuff. But it should stay there.

    @diGritz1@diGritz16 ай бұрын

  • This will be a very expensive Never Ending Story ........

    @josephnulley6808@josephnulley68085 ай бұрын

  • It's really easy to spend other people's money. Six times over budget? Oops. Oh well.

    @tomfuelery2905@tomfuelery29055 ай бұрын

  • Save the plamet from being fried? Puhleez ... stop the nonsense.

    @45Grace2009@45Grace20096 ай бұрын

  • This is like the TV Show Utopia. But it’s real! 🤦‍♂️

    @epmediaproductions3459@epmediaproductions34596 ай бұрын

  • Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Get the picture?

    @estewartbeveridge3183@estewartbeveridge31835 ай бұрын

    • Absolutely. These youngsters can learn from us oldies. But they won't. They know better.

      @grasonicus@grasonicus5 ай бұрын

  • "Saving the planet " ! Yikes

    @user-td8op5hx6b@user-td8op5hx6b5 ай бұрын

  • Just another 12bill

    @MrFiftymill@MrFiftymill6 ай бұрын

  • If batteries were bought instead, how much more, or less, would they cost?

    @lawrenceleske3470@lawrenceleske34705 ай бұрын

  • Seems like people paying taxes got hood winked

    @beemerkon@beemerkon5 ай бұрын

  • I'm just a simple man but 6x over budget in reality isn't too far off. Seems like everything cost 6x more than it did in 2019

    @LifeOnHard898@LifeOnHard8985 ай бұрын

  • Watching my four year old dig and play in the sandpit I wonder if he and his friends should be put in charge of this blunder. Some of the 12 billion will be tunnelled off to mates and grifters. It looks like St Barbara will be reporting to her boss with hopeless pleadings.

    @mobster6665@mobster66656 ай бұрын

  • So Australia is going to rescue the world now?

    @AlJay0032@AlJay00326 ай бұрын

  • Interesting. Hadn’t heard about this before.

    @amadablam8229@amadablam82296 ай бұрын

  • A truly monumental .... ..!

    @Whosetheworst@Whosetheworst5 ай бұрын

  • Once they are in for 2 billion they can't get out.

    @rogerterry5013@rogerterry50135 ай бұрын

  • A tunnel is a big hole in the ground that you pour taxpayer $$$ into.

    @thomaswhitelake@thomaswhitelake6 ай бұрын

  • Who needs competence when you are trying to "SAVE THE PLANET".

    @dalebetterton5255@dalebetterton52555 ай бұрын

  • Energy transition 🤣🤣🤣

    @180mph9@180mph95 ай бұрын

  • Thank U 4 Corners 🙂

    @lentrawn9899@lentrawn98996 ай бұрын

  • Batteries? Environmentally disastrous.

    @yuglesstube@yuglesstube5 ай бұрын

  • Turnbull ... say no more ... No risk(or brains in engineering) besides a public promotion ..

    @kevwills858@kevwills8586 ай бұрын

  • One of your best Turnbull...

    @hmao4466@hmao44666 ай бұрын

  • I dont think those farmers understand whats needed to underground power transmission lines. Its gonna destroy their land far more the. Transmission towers

    @WyattEmge@WyattEmge5 ай бұрын

  • Saint Barbara, the patron saint of tunneling. That ridiculous attribution pretty much sums it up.

    @jameslaupan6499@jameslaupan64995 ай бұрын

  • Massive cost blowouts lol.

    @ga1e0john35@ga1e0john356 ай бұрын

  • Have you guy's down under been watching us here in the UK?

    @stevezimmerman5644@stevezimmerman56446 ай бұрын
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