Taronga Zoo has released over 200 captive-bred Regent Honeyeaters into this location since 2008; the most recent release was of 50 birds last November 2022 -- this particular bushland being the only place in NSW where this species still resides - just. The money already wasted on the HEZ infrastructure is like a real-life episode of the ABC's Utopia. Looks to me like some bureaucrat "opinion-shopped" for an environmental consultant who gave them the EIS report that they were looking for, "no Regent Honeyeater breeding colony here".
Haha no I regret to inform that I did not see any honeyeaters. I heard lots of birds though, which wasn't hard given there was nothing else around to hear.
Hearing people say the hez feels eerie is weird, I always found it super relaxing. I and many of my friends and most locals learnt to drive in hez because it was quiet and had every kind of road feature to practice on. I still go out there pretty often on my motorbike and always but into other riders or bushwalkers. And there is still one business still operating out there.
@@elmohead HEZ Power Station is a diesel peaking power station. It does not run all the time its services are only called upon when there are peaks in demand. There are a number of diesel "peakers" in the country that work in conjunction with various gas peaking power stations to ease grid stress during peak demand. The advantage they have over batteries is there is no time limit on how long they run for.
there is actually a future for HEZ, but not in the form of industrial. We have being conducting surveys and they are plans to build either a residential suburban estate (to solve the housing crisis) or a national park and camping ground with bike trails. We are not sure what it will be yet, but it could even be both.
I worked in the Planning department and advised against the HEZ. The massive investment from the NSW community was disgraceful. Just another wasteful thought bubble by people in government who have little grasp on reality. Planning is for profit only here and the housing crisis, transport nightmare and trapping young and old inside as its so dangerous demonstrates how basic planning principles are ignored for private short-term and often small gain. Thankyou for bringing this issue to the attention of the people who pay for services and often only get lip service.
The railway line is not abandoned. It is currently booked out of use because one of the bridges was damaged in a bushfire. There is an operational section of the railway just south which is operating steam and diesel tourist trains a few times a month at Richmond Main. If you follow north to Pelaw Main the railway used to continue to a connection with the South Maitland Railway which itself connects to the main northern railway at Maitland.
You should do a video about North Arm Cove up near Port Stephens. It was meant to be some kind of development, but never eventuated. Subdivisions and dirt roads were laid out in a style similar to Canberra’s layout (designed by the same person, Walter Burley Griffin).
I was about to say the same thing lol. Little known fact but it was actually under consideration to be the capital of Australia at one time (hence the planned layout). Instead, it's just a massive ghost subdivision of empty allotments and dirt roads - basically Australia's version of the infamous California City.
Agree on north arm being an interesting video. I know a few people who purchased cheap non urban blocks there without doing research and are now stuck with what are essentially worthless land they can’t do anything with.
The location on a map is not quite as ridiculous as it sounds. Only 30 minutes from Newcastle the 8th largest urban centre in Australia and only 2 hours from Sydney the largest (or maybe second largest depending on how you measure it). Also then in between those two is the Central Coast the 9th largest. Directly next to Cessnock and Kurri Kurri which are by Australian standards decent size for inland towns. So within 2 hours of 5.5 million people or one fifth of all Australians. It seems any decent residential property within 3 hours of Sydney is expensive, therefore popular. So it is not entirely clear why this hasn’t translated to industrial within 2 hours.
The real problems are more complicated. First where to find so many tenants of such a large industrial site? Manufacturing is quite struggling due to high labour cost & relatively small market. Last decade, BlueScope at Port Kembla wanted to stop making steel before a better deal was signed, in other words, 3 levels of government supported it to stay. Over educated young adults do not prefer blue collar jobs but the long term job seekers do not have such skills & experience. Hunter Region & Newcastle are not short of land for industry so lots of better choices available?
Cessnock and Kurri are full of abandoned rail corridors, the south maitland railway is screaming for a passenger link between Cessnock and Maitland/Newy
Beresfield industrial centre at the Newcastle end of the M1 would have killed that stone dead. Decades ago it was generally known that industry west of the watagan mountain did not prosper
I stumbled across the HEZ in around 2007 when I was a contractor for Energy Australia - a job that took me all over the back roads of eastern NSW. I can't decide if it was more eerie back then than it is now. Back then the roads were pretty much new and there was no overgrowth on the berms, paths or train tracks, but as I drove down the roads within the zone, it was devoid of all human activity. I really struggled to understand what its purpose was or who would want to setup business in the middle of nowhere. I guess business owners ultimately felt the same. It's easy to grasp the concept of a place that was populated and well used in the past slowly being abandoned with the changing of the times. It's less easy to fathom a place where infrastructure was built for people who just never came at all.... Thanks for another great video!
This is an example of a local government council thinking that it’s purpose is to be entrepreneurial and provide employment…………….local councils do not have the experience, knowledge or , indeed, the talent to push these things to success. I watched this fiasco unravel in the 1980s/ 1990s………………….it’s nowhere near anything which makes sense. Good job with your videos, keep going!! Stavros
I live just south of Cessnock and have never heard of this before, what a strange waste of effort, time and money. On our property there are loads of Honey Eaters though and we are surrounded by State forest and National Parks. I guess Newcastle was expected to grow much more than it has, strange how environmental concerns are dismissed when solar panels and windmills are the proposal.
To many of us who live in regional NSW, the state's initials stand for Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong. Anything beyond those three cities is invisible to state politicians.
@@21stcenturyozman20 fast rail is the only way to attract greater numbers and therefore a more vibrant economy to become much more relevant to the state's GDP. Otherwise it's always going to be Newcastle Sydney Wollongong
Personally I think it's laughable to say Newcastle isn't Sydney when parts of the Sunshine and Gold Coast are considered part of Greater Brisbane and that land is wayyyyyy bigger than Shitney.
Great video as always, didn't know about the HEZ but in the past, I'm sure I've driven past the entrance as I have fam who used to live in Kurri Kurri and we'd make the trip to Cessnock also *inb4 musk actually builds a warehouse*
I’ve never heard of this place before, so this was quite a great introduction! Very nice video as always. I think a video on the Brands on Sale building in Campbelltown could be good
Build more houses in Maitland first, from low to top. Small towns surrounded by State Forests/NP or whatever have very high bushfire risks. Remember how massive rainfall & flooding to bring unstoppable bushfire to the end when Pandemic started?
Bollards! Now that will stop the petrol heads from racing here. 🤣 They tried something similar by installing gates to stop the 4WD's in Menai. Someone came along with a 4WD & ripped the gates out.
Always wondered about the history, thanks for shedding some light on it! but the comedy attempts are making it hard to watch. Appreciate the humour but every 30 seconds or so. Eh..
After Labor shut down the Newcastle steel works they continued their war against workers by shutting down as much of Newcastles industrial base as possible!!
Don't let facts get in the way of your right wing, cooker, Sky News opinions... Newcastle Steel Works closed in 1999... when John Howard's Liberal Government were in power and had been for almost 4 years.
Can the trees in & around HEZ be cleared? If not, huge potential fire risk. If Cessnock LGA cannot approve it, does NSW still support it on a State level?
I don't understand the industrial appeal for the site, why? There are dozens of better industrial parks closer to ports, supply centers and infrastructure. Is there a tax break available to move here because it look like it's just smack dab in the middle of nowhere in particular.
a national park with bike trails and hiking paths and picnic areas and a camping area/caravan park would be perfect for the area. And the wide roads could be reconfigured for parking.
This was government planning, those jokers with no skin in the game. Developers are good at BS but at least they have to make a profit from the money they spend, bureaucrats not so.
Is this a typical case of governments attempting to 'manage' private investment? If the place is no good, poorly connected, distant from a workforce, suppliers, markets, then it's probably not an investment option. Basically, it's too far from New Castle, and poorly connected to rail, road and the port.
im disappointed you didnt try even slightly to get some saturday night footage of the burnouts from the internet to add and possibly credit in your video. great video though
I'm glad there are no bollards in this area 😂 right? Nope, someone drove all the way to this place and hit the one thing no one would see this far away
I love your videos but the 2hrs from Sydney point???? Queensland is covered in bustling industrial estates, my home town is 3 hours from Brisbane and has about 4 industrial parks/economic zones... (wood, animals, cropping, general industrial). You don't need to be near a major city to make it work. You just need industry... which is a NSW failure (no where near enough decentralisation whilst other states like QLD have effectively spread populations across the state)
@@loweysadventures I'm from Queensland, where "Brisbane" is essentially the entirety of SEQ, so Newcastle feels pretty central all things considered... it's like me driving from Caboolture to Caloundra and saying I'm not in Greater Brisbane (which it is part of since decades ago). Ergo Newcastle pretty much is just part of the Sydney sprawl in my eyes.
@@dingobonza so what we need to understand is :Why did it fail?" It seems to me that the over zealous environmentalists can stop anything but are happy to cover agricultural land with solar panels. the stupid part of that is the plants absorb the CO2 to grow thus balancing the output from coal. Politics, science and religion should always be kept separate, it is like mixing oil and water, doesn't work.
@@brendonwood7595 I believe it is possible to restrict the housing area within the bush reserve adjacent to the main roads by utilizing a mix of residential housing and acreage. It would also be beneficial to conserve the existing bushland by transforming it into parklands or national parks rather than clearing it for development.
This will be all the Hunter valley in the future. Coal is still doing strong, but once it’s not they will try to set up industry all over the Hunter which will fail since there will be no mines to use the industry services
@@seanworkman431 Too much solar power is produced around Australia during sunny days but not enough storage. If AUD 8 billions Snowy Hydro 2.0 can come true eventually, for more Australians it is a better result that AUD21.6 Syd Metro extension which was just over 15kms.
@@yesbeautyfly well pumping water uphill uses more energy than can be created by flowing it downhill again, simple engineering fact. The world needs honest engineers not people who excuse themselves for a pay check. Pray tell, has the tunnel boring machine been unbogged from the asbestos sink hole it drove into?
If the Australian Government built a Regional Cargo Airport in collaboration with either UPS, FedEx or DHL with a freight rail link to the Port of Newcastle near HEZ then this will give HEZ a chance to become a successful Freight Park.
I will be honest, the attempts at jokes jar me from following along with the story. If there could be less included in the videos, I would probably appreciate it more. That's just my opinion, though the content remains great as usual.
Simple solution: put in a couple of light rail stations and hire someone with a shotgun to fix the pesky birds. The incompetence or complicity of local politicians never ceases to amaze me. Time after time we see these shonky development projects getting public support. There must be hundreds of thousand hectares of ex mining, ex industrial land in the Hunter region which should be available for development. With not a honeyeater in sight.
The previous President of RBA warned climate change might make some areas uninsurable when Australia was suffering bushfire elsewhere. If the trees nearby cannot be cleared to protect some birds, can insurance be really bought if houses are built?
I appreciate the content but for me the comedy shtick ran thin ages ago, particularly as I was showing my dad in his 80s your videos and all the gibberish is just wasting our time otherwise he would love your stuff
bro really pulled up at the N ER CONOMIC ONE
I drive past this place every day for work. I have always wondered the history. So great to see some of these videos about places I know.
The RVRM used the railway until the bridge was burned in the 2019 HEZ fire. It was caused by a burnt out car.
gee, that would certainly be a good ride! very unfortunate about the fire,
that fire was in 2017 i was there fighting it on the day that it flared up bad
I feel like this place is a Newcastle bogan hoon's dream location..
The biggest beneficiaries of HEZ is cycling. The road is home to local and state events year round
Lots of great mtb trails 😊
Taronga Zoo has released over 200 captive-bred Regent Honeyeaters into this location since 2008; the most recent release was of 50 birds last November 2022 -- this particular bushland being the only place in NSW where this species still resides - just.
The money already wasted on the HEZ infrastructure is like a real-life episode of the ABC's Utopia. Looks to me like some bureaucrat "opinion-shopped" for an environmental consultant who gave them the EIS report that they were looking for, "no Regent Honeyeater breeding colony here".
Well we have a Labor government in NSW and Canberra(Federal) so hopefully this land stays as it is.
An extremely rare bird found by following spooky abandoned roads? Count me in! Did you see any regent honeyeaters while you were there?
Haha no I regret to inform that I did not see any honeyeaters. I heard lots of birds though, which wasn't hard given there was nothing else around to hear.
@@BuildingBeautifully brutal
I spent hundreds of hours working at the HEZ Power Station. The Regent Honeyeaters are so rare I never saw one.
@@BuildingBeautifully knock it down and build houses there. We are after all, in a housing crisis
@@electro_sykes There is probably affordable housing in Newcastle proper in which would have more infrastructure, shops, schools, railways etc.
Im gonna set up a 24 hr tyre shop in HEZ, licence to print money.
$$$
Hearing people say the hez feels eerie is weird, I always found it super relaxing. I and many of my friends and most locals learnt to drive in hez because it was quiet and had every kind of road feature to practice on. I still go out there pretty often on my motorbike and always but into other riders or bushwalkers. And there is still one business still operating out there.
Sounds like something that will be in the new series of Utopia.
I spent a lot of time working on HEZ Power Station. It is a diesel peaking power station with 16 Cummins 1.8 Mega Watt diesel generators.
Just barely enough to power those street lights
@@elmohead HEZ Power Station is a diesel peaking power station. It does not run all the time its services are only called upon when there are peaks in demand. There are a number of diesel "peakers" in the country that work in conjunction with various gas peaking power stations to ease grid stress during peak demand. The advantage they have over batteries is there is no time limit on how long they run for.
there is actually a future for HEZ, but not in the form of industrial. We have being conducting surveys and they are plans to build either a residential suburban estate (to solve the housing crisis) or a national park and camping ground with bike trails. We are not sure what it will be yet, but it could even be both.
I worked in the Planning department and advised against the HEZ. The massive investment from the NSW community was disgraceful. Just another wasteful thought bubble by people in government who have little grasp on reality. Planning is for profit only here and the housing crisis, transport nightmare and trapping young and old inside as its so dangerous demonstrates how basic planning principles are ignored for private short-term and often small gain. Thankyou for bringing this issue to the attention of the people who pay for services and often only get lip service.
The railway line is not abandoned. It is currently booked out of use because one of the bridges was damaged in a bushfire. There is an operational section of the railway just south which is operating steam and diesel tourist trains a few times a month at Richmond Main.
If you follow north to Pelaw Main the railway used to continue to a connection with the South Maitland Railway which itself connects to the main northern railway at Maitland.
You should do a video about North Arm Cove up near Port Stephens. It was meant to be some kind of development, but never eventuated. Subdivisions and dirt roads were laid out in a style similar to Canberra’s layout (designed by the same person, Walter Burley Griffin).
I was about to say the same thing lol. Little known fact but it was actually under consideration to be the capital of Australia at one time (hence the planned layout). Instead, it's just a massive ghost subdivision of empty allotments and dirt roads - basically Australia's version of the infamous California City.
Agree on north arm being an interesting video. I know a few people who purchased cheap non urban blocks there without doing research and are now stuck with what are essentially worthless land they can’t do anything with.
Where does lost Sydney end and lost Newcastle begin?
The location on a map is not quite as ridiculous as it sounds. Only 30 minutes from Newcastle the 8th largest urban centre in Australia and only 2 hours from Sydney the largest (or maybe second largest depending on how you measure it). Also then in between those two is the Central Coast the 9th largest. Directly next to Cessnock and Kurri Kurri which are by Australian standards decent size for inland towns. So within 2 hours of 5.5 million people or one fifth of all Australians. It seems any decent residential property within 3 hours of Sydney is expensive, therefore popular. So it is not entirely clear why this hasn’t translated to industrial within 2 hours.
The real problems are more complicated. First where to find so many tenants of such a large industrial site? Manufacturing is quite struggling due to high labour cost & relatively small market. Last decade, BlueScope at Port Kembla wanted to stop making steel before a better deal was signed, in other words, 3 levels of government supported it to stay. Over educated young adults do not prefer blue collar jobs but the long term job seekers do not have such skills & experience.
Hunter Region & Newcastle are not short of land for industry so lots of better choices available?
Cessnock and Kurri are full of abandoned rail corridors, the south maitland railway is screaming for a passenger link between Cessnock and Maitland/Newy
Beresfield industrial centre at the Newcastle end of the M1 would have killed that stone dead.
Decades ago it was generally known that industry west of the watagan mountain did not prosper
I stumbled across the HEZ in around 2007 when I was a contractor for Energy Australia - a job that took me all over the back roads of eastern NSW. I can't decide if it was more eerie back then than it is now. Back then the roads were pretty much new and there was no overgrowth on the berms, paths or train tracks, but as I drove down the roads within the zone, it was devoid of all human activity. I really struggled to understand what its purpose was or who would want to setup business in the middle of nowhere. I guess business owners ultimately felt the same.
It's easy to grasp the concept of a place that was populated and well used in the past slowly being abandoned with the changing of the times. It's less easy to fathom a place where infrastructure was built for people who just never came at all....
Thanks for another great video!
This is an example of a local government council thinking that it’s purpose is to be entrepreneurial and provide employment…………….local councils do not have the experience, knowledge or , indeed, the talent to push these things to success.
I watched this fiasco unravel in the 1980s/ 1990s………………….it’s nowhere near anything which makes sense.
Good job with your videos, keep going!!
Stavros
a lot of stolen vehicles can sometimes be spotted at the HEZ
7:05 accurate description of Kurri Kurri
The birds and skippies love it just as it is.
I live just south of Cessnock and have never heard of this before, what a strange waste of effort, time and money. On our property there are loads of Honey Eaters though and we are surrounded by State forest and National Parks. I guess Newcastle was expected to grow much more than it has, strange how environmental concerns are dismissed when solar panels and windmills are the proposal.
Lived in the hunter up in Nelson’s bay for 2 months back in 2022. Some of the best days of my life.
It's abandoned because the local bogans needed a place to do skids, to the local council closed the area and gave it away to the rev heads
Why not actually make a legal place for them to play safely without compromising the safety of others, you cannot stop kids from being kids?
I love how Sydneysiders forget that NSW isn’t just Sydney. Great vid but calling the hez lost Sydney is a ridiculous stretch
To many of us who live in regional NSW, the state's initials stand for Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong. Anything beyond those three cities is invisible to state politicians.
@@21stcenturyozman20 fast rail is the only way to attract greater numbers and therefore a more vibrant economy to become much more relevant to the state's GDP. Otherwise it's always going to be Newcastle Sydney Wollongong
Personally I think it's laughable to say Newcastle isn't Sydney when parts of the Sunshine and Gold Coast are considered part of Greater Brisbane and that land is wayyyyyy bigger than Shitney.
Great video as always, didn't know about the HEZ but in the past, I'm sure I've driven past the entrance as I have fam who used to live in Kurri Kurri and we'd make the trip to Cessnock
also
*inb4 musk actually builds a warehouse*
I’ve never heard of this place before, so this was quite a great introduction! Very nice video as always.
I think a video on the Brands on Sale building in Campbelltown could be good
you know its the Hunter when you see car donuts everywhere, we al rely on you escaping from these nasty people
The Developer and Local MP'S should lobby State Government to Re-Zone this huge parcel of land, for......
HOUSING!!!! 🤦♂️
Build more houses in Maitland first, from low to top. Small towns surrounded by State Forests/NP or whatever have very high bushfire risks. Remember how massive rainfall & flooding to bring unstoppable bushfire to the end when Pandemic started?
Oh hey I drive past this place to get to work. Nice to know more about it
Bollards! Now that will stop the petrol heads from racing here. 🤣
They tried something similar by installing gates to stop the 4WD's in Menai. Someone came along with a 4WD & ripped the gates out.
Always wondered about the history, thanks for shedding some light on it!
but the comedy attempts are making it hard to watch. Appreciate the humour but every 30 seconds or so. Eh..
a national park with bike trails and hiking paths and picnic areas and a camping area/caravan park would be perfect for the area
Top video as usual.
What's the deal with the Epping Office Park though? Could have a look into that, maybe.
After Labor shut down the Newcastle steel works they continued their war against workers by shutting down as much of Newcastles industrial base as possible!!
Don't let facts get in the way of your right wing, cooker, Sky News opinions... Newcastle Steel Works closed in 1999... when John Howard's Liberal Government were in power and had been for almost 4 years.
It cant be that out of the way, ive seen it packed with hundreds of people watching people do burnouts 😂
Can the trees in & around HEZ be cleared? If not, huge potential fire risk. If Cessnock LGA cannot approve it, does NSW still support it on a State level?
What drone do you have, also would love to see one of you cities in cities skylines!
I don't understand the industrial appeal for the site, why? There are dozens of better industrial parks closer to ports, supply centers and infrastructure. Is there a tax break available to move here because it look like it's just smack dab in the middle of nowhere in particular.
The trees in HEZ looks like in arrays, rows & columns. State Forests by plantation look similar, such a bushland has endangered native birds?
Drove by this area recently, weird place.
Great stuff . Can you do a vide on Newcastle Regional Railway lines and potential line extensions as you did for Sydney Metro and railway
^^
If you loved this you should look into the Multi Function Polis that was to be built north of Adelaide with Japanese backing.
another banger video
Blink three times if you need us to send help...
a national park with bike trails and hiking paths and picnic areas and a camping area/caravan park would be perfect for the area. And the wide roads could be reconfigured for parking.
Then it would be handed to the abos
@@user-tm4bi1nl4q nah, not entirely. maybe part of it.
Thank you
The HEZ is an example of the bullshit that ambitious developers like to spew.
This was government planning, those jokers with no skin in the game. Developers are good at BS but at least they have to make a profit from the money they spend, bureaucrats not so.
What a HEZ Been...
Sorry😩
Show yourself out ploise!
There bad people will hold you hostage.
Maybe time to spread some seeds of endangered plant species so the area has to be protected 🤭
You should do one of these on boatharbour in Kurnell
Is this a typical case of governments attempting to 'manage' private investment? If the place is no good, poorly connected, distant from a workforce, suppliers, markets, then it's probably not an investment option. Basically, it's too far from New Castle, and poorly connected to rail, road and the port.
How was this funded..? Gvt subsidies?
Too noisy with all those honey eaters
Great story. (Possibly could do without the theatrics).
well, that's a waste of land with a bunch of dead-end roads that lead to nowhere. in fact, there's a Song Called the Road to Nowhere
by Talking heads.
im disappointed you didnt try even slightly to get some saturday night footage of the burnouts from the internet to add and possibly credit in your video. great video though
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N'er Conomic One! Don't they mean "Never Comic Con?"
Did u hear about the Denistone station upgrade
I miss your older videos without all the jokes and emphasis on comedy… Still a really solid production and fascinating info 👍
Correction. This place is now called "Nerconomic One"
I hope the Hunter renewable Energy Zone has better luck. And hope you manage to escape for the next video!
I'm glad there are no bollards in this area 😂 right? Nope, someone drove all the way to this place and hit the one thing no one would see this far away
This is a strategic investment. Wait 100-200 years and it will be worth a fortune. Just you wait and see!
With the high need for housing within the next twenty years easy that place might come to fruition
I love your videos but the 2hrs from Sydney point???? Queensland is covered in bustling industrial estates, my home town is 3 hours from Brisbane and has about 4 industrial parks/economic zones... (wood, animals, cropping, general industrial). You don't need to be near a major city to make it work.
You just need industry... which is a NSW failure (no where near enough decentralisation whilst other states like QLD have effectively spread populations across the state)
newcastle has lots of industry
Yeah you're right. NSW needs more decentralization. Govts seem to be in a pissing competition with Melbourne. Sydney, Sydney, Sydney...
@@loweysadventures I'm from Queensland, where "Brisbane" is essentially the entirety of SEQ, so Newcastle feels pretty central all things considered... it's like me driving from Caboolture to Caloundra and saying I'm not in Greater Brisbane (which it is part of since decades ago). Ergo Newcastle pretty much is just part of the Sydney sprawl in my eyes.
@@Peter-ev2kr yes it does, the HEZ exemplifies a failure at attempts of decentralisation.
@@dingobonza so what we need to understand is :Why did it fail?" It seems to me that the over zealous environmentalists can stop anything but are happy to cover agricultural land with solar panels. the stupid part of that is the plants absorb the CO2 to grow thus balancing the output from coal. Politics, science and religion should always be kept separate, it is like mixing oil and water, doesn't work.
I've been lost here :)
we have a housing crisis, rezone the hez to residential
Bazzar they just didn't convert the land into residential housing or winery as it's not far from the Hunter Valley vineyards
residential housing has the same honeyeater problem.
@@brendonwood7595 I believe it is possible to restrict the housing area within the bush reserve adjacent to the main roads by utilizing a mix of residential housing and acreage. It would also be beneficial to conserve the existing bushland by transforming it into parklands or national parks rather than clearing it for development.
@@DJarvis1987 it is possible to do many things, what is allowed is the relevant thing.
7:06 - F%$K all? I can see my house from here!
This will be all the Hunter valley in the future. Coal is still doing strong, but once it’s not they will try to set up industry all over the Hunter which will fail since there will be no mines to use the industry services
Without coal, not enough electricity to power a caravan park, let alone an industrial estate.
@@seanworkman431
Too much solar power is produced around Australia during sunny days but not enough storage. If AUD 8 billions Snowy Hydro 2.0 can come true eventually, for more Australians it is a better result that AUD21.6 Syd Metro extension which was just over 15kms.
@@yesbeautyfly well pumping water uphill uses more energy than can be created by flowing it downhill again, simple engineering fact.
The world needs honest engineers not people who excuse themselves for a pay check.
Pray tell, has the tunnel boring machine been unbogged from the asbestos sink hole it drove into?
Looks likes the local burnout pad😂.
🤔So it HEZ not lived up to the Dream
Love how some guy who looks like Mr. Bean decided to create a whole economy in the middle of newcastle of all places
HEZ is about 45 minutes from Newcastle.
Claiming "NerconomicOne" as an online handle, dibs.
If the Australian Government built a Regional Cargo Airport in collaboration with either UPS, FedEx or DHL with a freight rail link to the Port of Newcastle near HEZ then this will give HEZ a chance to become a successful Freight Park.
Great idea!
That's similar to what's happening in Parkes.
Rail transport is so economical in many ways, restoring the old lines should be a priority.
I will be honest, the attempts at jokes jar me from following along with the story. If there could be less included in the videos, I would probably appreciate it more. That's just my opinion, though the content remains great as usual.
Each to their own. At least he is funny - mostly.
i do agree the skits were a little too much this vid. However great content, really interesting place
His skits are too much and out of character
Ah come on, we all need some cheese in our lives from time to time.
I (dis)respectively disagree
Simple solution: put in a couple of light rail stations and hire someone with a shotgun to fix the pesky birds.
The incompetence or complicity of local politicians never ceases to amaze me. Time after time we see these shonky development projects getting public support. There must be hundreds of thousand hectares of ex mining, ex industrial land in the Hunter region which should be available for development. With not a honeyeater in sight.
nice
Urbex vibes 👍
We used it for drag racing and burnouts 15 years ago 😂 about all its good for
What a story 😅
knock it down and build houses there. We are after all, in a housing crisis
The previous President of RBA warned climate change might make some areas uninsurable when Australia was suffering bushfire elsewhere. If the trees nearby cannot be cleared to protect some birds, can insurance be really bought if houses are built?
“You can make it in 30 minutes if you speed “ 🤣
half the roads are still just dirt roads'
Could you do some dams n shit like woronora etc xx
Build it and they will… er…
cum
🤣Where do i handing my deposit
Could be used for filming like this one in England:
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If it was that big of a deal then how come this is the first i'm hearing about it?
Anything is possible when you lie. 🎉
Nice phone number.
I appreciate the content but for me the comedy shtick ran thin ages ago, particularly as I was showing my dad in his 80s your videos and all the gibberish is just wasting our time otherwise he would love your stuff
Are the utilities in place?
a national park with bike trails and hiking paths and picnic areas and a camping area/caravan park would be perfect for the area