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Feds should stop HV bitcoin power station: Greens

THE federal government must step in and ensure there is no avenue for reopening Hunter Energy’s Redbank coal-fired power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, which could be used exclusively to mine bitcoin, the Greens insist.

 The Greens are asking that the government stop a plan to use Redbank power station to power blockchain.

The Greens are asking that the government stop a plan to use Redbank power station to power blockchain.

Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John said reopening the power station to generate bitcoin was "utterly frivolous and morally reprehensible".   "It is absolutely astonishing that plans to reopen a coal-fired...

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