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At least four years
Four years from a feasibility study. The mountain took a decade and did not file a finish date the auditor could use.
The project would take at least four years to complete.
Malcolm Turnbull, 16 March 2017. Feasibility by the end of the year. Construction “soon after.” Guardian: the project “would take at least four years to complete.” ARENA, quoted the same week, had already said pumped hydro can take up to seven.
December 2017, the study landed. ABC: “operational from 2024.”
This card files those dates. It does not file “never finish.”
What did have a receipt:
- ABC, 3 June 2026: seven years behind the first schedule. First power now late 2027. All units: December 2028. That is eleven years from the announcement, four past the 2024 study date.
- ANAO, June 2026: there is “no agreed baseline schedule.” The auditor could not say how far off completion the job was. Productivity gains assumed at the 2023 reset “are proving difficult to realise.”
- Four years was a floor. 2024 was a year. A schedule the auditor cannot find is a third clock.
Grammar: at least four, from 2024. Logic: a floor is not a finish. Rhetoric: soon after.