Hazelwood operators fined $1.9m over fire

By Georgie Moore
Updated May 19 2020 - 7:46pm, first published 7:41pm
The fire at Hazelwood's open cut coalmine blanketed the nearby town of Morwell with smoke and ash.
The fire at Hazelwood's open cut coalmine blanketed the nearby town of Morwell with smoke and ash.

The operators of a defunct Victorian power station must fork out more than $1.9 million after a bushfire spread to a coalmine and burned for 45 days.

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