Snowy Hydro boss says 'clash of ideas' with Energy Minister sparked resignation

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Snowy Hydro boss says 'clash of ideas' with Energy Minister sparked resignation
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Paul Broad says he is disappointed to be leaving Snowy Hydro after falling out with Chris Bowen over a gas plant in the NSW Hunter Region.

Paul Broad was chief executive of Snowy Hydro for nearly a decadeThe Hunter Valley gas-fired power plant will still go ahead

"I didn't want to put the company in a position where we were seen to be fighting at every level with whatever the government may or may not want to do."A gas-fired power plant being built at Kurri Kurri in the NSW Hunter Valley was at the heart of the tension.The land at Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley where the gas-fired plant is being built.

"To think you can have hydrogen running into Kurri Kurri when there is no hydrogen being produced in Newcastle just doesn't make any sense."

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