Photo reveals 'catastrophic' damage to Callide Power Station that blacked out Queensland

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A 300-kilogram piece of shrapnel is removed from the roof of the Callide Power Station in central Queensland after a recent explosion that blacked out more than 470,000 homes and business across the state.

A 300-kilogram piece of shrapnel has been removed from the roof of the Callide Power Station after a recent explosion at the site that led to 477,000 Queensland customers losing power.The outage at the Callide station on May 25 had a domino effect, tripping other plants in the network

"There's approximately 70 people back on site now, doing risk assessments and getting ready to start the maintenance to return units to entry to work," he said.Delay to restarting of units Three generating units were due to come back online this week but have been pushed back to later this month.

 

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Yeah... wait... let me get my binoculars

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Not once were the words ‘coal powered’ used. Can you imagine an explosion at a solar site without the words ‘reusable energy’? Me neither 🙄

Time to retire coal. It's had its day.

Plainly_D FYI. This happened.

Lack of proper maintenance

Holy crap! Lucky no one got hurt!

It’s uncanny!

Reliable coal eh mattjcan

Hey Mr. Canavan... how will you spin this as the fault of renewables?

How’s that coal going?

I've never seen a major power station that looks like a giant garden shed before

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