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Blyth's Big Battery
Blyth West is to get a big battery built for French company Neoen, just like the Hornsdale Tesla Battery. It is being located next to the...
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A Snowtown woman won $40m in Powerball
Snowtown is a small community but locals are none the wiser on who was the lucky winner of a $40 million lotto first division prize.
The members of the “stitch and bitch” club who meet at the Snowtown Newsagency had the ultimate piece of gossip to unpick on Friday – the identity of the local mum who is now $40m richer.
Sharee Cocks, who celebrates her 60th birthday on Saturday, was among the members trying to stitch together any clues.
“We have tried to guess who it is but we have no idea,” Mrs Cocks said.
“If I won the $40m I’d have had a heart attack by now but I’d share it with my family.”
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The winner, who has chosen to remain anonymous, had joked with a friend about winning Powerball just hours before scooping the entire $40m division one pool with a ticket she bought online.
The Snowtown mum had to pull over while driving when she received the life-changing phone call from Powerball operator The Lott, and promptly went into hysterics on Thursday night.
Big Barley Harvest
November 11, 2021
Barley has started to flow into Viterra’s sites in South Australia. Growers delivered 213,281 tonnes of mostly barley into Viterra’s Australian network last week to lift the total for the harvest to November 7 to 256,809 tonnes.
Viterra Central Region operations manager Jack Tansley said the majority of the region’s activity was at Ardrossan, Bowmans, Crystal Brook, Port Pirie, Snowtown, and Wallaroo.
“Growers have so far delivered into 13 sites in the region, most of which were open on Saturday so growers could continue to reap,” Mr Tansley said.
Viterra also loaded its first new season grain train with 2400 tonnes of barley at Port Pirie, which headed to Outer Harbor to help accumulate grain for the terminal’s first export vessel of the season.
“We’ve out-turned trains from Port Pirie, Snowtown and Bowmans this week destined for our Adelaide ports to load vessels.”
Read more: Viterra receives 256,809 t as SA harvest hits straps
Snowtown's New Quarry
Clare's quarrier and transporter SC Heinrich & Co have won the contract to supply quartz gravel for the first stage of the Port Wakefield to Port Augusta Duplication work, which will duplicate the Augusta Highway from Port Wakefield to Lochiel.
The Quarry will be built into Bald Hill by Boundary Creek from Wokurna Road, in the Barunga Range, and
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noise and transportation will impact four surrounding homesteads,
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when the project begins in 2022.
Read more in the Blog "Snowtown's New Quarry"
Early crop protection paying dividends at Snowtown
Story by Gregor Heard 5 Jun 2021, 1 p.m.
A FOCUS on protecting the crop in its vulnerable stages just after germinating is paying dividends in South Australia's Mid North.
Snowtown grain producers Simon and Nick McCormack make sure they have their seed treatments on to combat both insect and disease pressure and have said it has made a difference in getting good early vigour in crops.
This year, with a dry start, keeping plants as healthy as possible will be even more important to ensure yield is not lost come harvest time.
"We've had about 30mm in the past fortnight or so, with 20mm in one rain about a week ago, but now you would not even know it has rained," Simon said.
The farm, a fifth generation family enterprise going back to 1873 which the brothers operate in conjunction with father Paul, features a wide variety of soils from sandy loams to iron-rich heavier red soils.
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Snowtown's old Wind Farm 1
is unable to add a new big battery
Story by Giles Parkinson 13 May 2021 RenewEconomy
The head of one of Australia’s leading renewable energy developers has expressed frustration at his company’s inability to obtain approval to add a big battery to one of its operating wind farms in South Australia.
Tilt Renewables – subject to an agreed $2.8 billion takeover offer from the Powering Australia Renewables Fund and Mercury NZ – has been looking for several years if it can add a battery to its Snowtown wind complex in South Australia, where it still owns the 101MW Snowtown 1 wind farm.
But CEO Deion Campbell says the company has effectively been told by the local transmission company ElectraNet that it will not be possible without significant modelling and an adjustment to the project’s generator performance standard (GPS).
Read more on our News Page
Curries bring tourists and truckies to Snowtown
Snowtown Roadhouse owner Charat Singh serves local Peter Ebsary his best seller, butter chicken, of which he sells almost 200 kilograms a week.
View Video interview with Charat Singh on ABC while the link is still available:
Story by ABC North And West: Shannon Corvo 12 April 2021
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New Loch-Eel monster emerges in Mid North town of Lochiel
The Mid North town of Lochiel has a new monster on the prowl – but the iconic landmark it replaces isn’t retiring just yet.
Michelle Etheridge Regional Editor Messenger/Advertiser March 19, 2021
Lochiel has a new monster, but its much-loved old one isn’t retiring any time soon.
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The Loch-Eel monster, named by the Lochiel Progress Association, is part of a $450,000 Lake Bumbunga tourism project managed by Wakefield Regional Council.
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Port Broughton mechanic Wayne Dennis built the fibreglass sculpture over about 12 months. It was built around a stainless steel rod, also using wire mesh, and installed this week.
Read more on the News page or at The Advertiser
AGL Group buys Snowtown Wind Farm 1
Owner of Snowtown Wind Farm 1, Australian-New Zealand renewables developer Tilt Renewables, is to be bought for $2.75 billion by the AGL Energy backed Powering Australian Renewables fund and New Zealand utility Mercury NZ.
Through the deal, the Tilt Renewables business will effectively be split up, with the Australian and New Zealand parts of the business being acquired by different members of the takeover consortium.
The takeover offer for Tilt’s Australian business has been launched by Powering Australian Renewables, a partnership between energy giant AGL Energy (20 per cent), Queensland government-owned investment group QIC (40 per cent) and the federal government’s Future Fund (40 per cent).
News: Snowtown Earthquakes
Together we can
Give back to our Snowtown community our historic photographs, heritage ideas, displays and experiences.
Click through for some ideas:
Hummocks Station homestead
Hummocks Station homestead
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Hummocks Station homestead
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The Hummocks sheep run, or Hummocks station, was very important in the development of the area and the founding of Snowtown.
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1842: John Ellis,
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1870: Robert Barr Smith
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1873: The Michael Family
Snowtown: South Australia's
wind energy capital
and Cross-roads of the Mid-North
The Snowtown wind farm is the second largest operating wind farm in the state and the second largest in the nation, supplying the equivalent of 10 per cent of South Australia's electricity.
Locals see Snowtown as the wind energy capital of the state of South Australia.
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