It’s tonnes of good news for BlueScope

Glen Humphries
Updated October 23 2017 - 5:37pm, first published 5:30pm
A steel slab runs down the line at BlueScope's hot strip mill ... the Port Kembla steelworks will be manufacturing tonnes and tonnes of steel for the Broken Hill water pipeline. Picture: Sylvia Liber
A steel slab runs down the line at BlueScope's hot strip mill ... the Port Kembla steelworks will be manufacturing tonnes and tonnes of steel for the Broken Hill water pipeline. Picture: Sylvia Liber

As much as 30,000 tonnes of Port Kembla steel will be used to build a 270-kilometre water pipeline to Broken Hill.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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