It is part of a bold - and expensive - hydro electricity scheme in the Kosciuszko National Park in south-east New South Wales. The Snowy 2.0 project has ambitions to carve tunnels through 27km (17 ...

Hadi Nazari told the hikers who found him after two weeks missing in the NSW bush that he used journal entries in a logbook inside a mountain hut to plan his route to safety.

The Snowy Hydro Scheme expansion has been plagued with delays and cost blowouts. It was initially costed at $2 billion but that has increased over the years and it is now estimated to be $12 billion.

Once completed, the federal government said it would connect the Snowy Hydro Scheme expansion, otherwise known as Snowy 2.0 and which has been plagued by cost and time blowouts, to the grid and ...