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‘Incredibly disappointing’: Snowy 2.0 cost blows out to $25b in biggest setback yet

WAtoday · 22 October 2026 at 10:00 pm

‘Incredibly disappointing’: Snowy 2.0 cost blows out to $25b in biggest setback yet

The cost of the Commonwealth government’s Snowy 2.0 mega-project has exploded from an estimated $6 billion to $25 billion.

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