Claims Tallawarra power station announcement a 'greenwash'

Glen Humphries
Updated June 29 2021 - 12:22am, first published May 4 2021 - 2:30pm
Upgrade: The existing Tallawarra power plant on the shores of Lake Illawarra is about to increase in size, with the help of millions in government funding. Picture Sylvia Liber
Upgrade: The existing Tallawarra power plant on the shores of Lake Illawarra is about to increase in size, with the help of millions in government funding. Picture Sylvia Liber

The state government is chipping in $83 million to help build a new power plant on the shores of Lake Illawarra - just five months after approving the project.

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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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