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The Manapouri Power Station, built by Bechtel, which supplies power for the aluminum smelter in Invercargill. (Between the smelter and the slaughterhouse, it didn't seem like there was much reason to go visit there). Bechtel wanted to raise the level of Lake Manapouri so there would have been more hydropower, but the residents of the town of Manapouri, which would have been flooded, objected. It sparked a huge flurry of New Zealand environmental activism which ultimately led to a change in government, and scuttled the plan to raise the lake. So they built the plant way underground -- the yellow in the model above is the 2.5 km-long tunnel to the plant. |
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