Black Saturday is an Australian tragedy that redefined the way we live with fire

As victims’ loved ones gear up for Black Saturday’s 10th anniversary, we must learn the hard lessons about our wretched electricity system

I’d visited the Latrobe Valley a few times before I really took in Hazelwood power station. Of course, I’d seen it. How could anyone miss it? But now I beheld the concrete behemoth, its towering chimney stacks creating their own thin, brown cloud-stream.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2G9bdvV
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