Art Vanderlay
Hourly daily
No, finished late 90's. Retired old fisherman now.Was he still there at the end?
I've been on a tour through Loy Yang A a couple of times with work, and looked through the hatch into the furnace - they are engineering marvels and incredibly cool bits of kit. The stories of when a turbine blade is thrown are fun!
I wonder why the stacks at Hazelwood were brought down though? I would have liked them to have been preserved as a reminder of the folly that was brown coal fired power... Or at least to the "it seemed like a good idea at the time"
Back in the early days, he took me to work a few times (was pretty young so don't remember much). I do remember being down in the mine climbing on the machinery!