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So when they appeared outside EnergyCo's Walcha consultation on Tuesday, October 28, that's when locals realised it wasn't your typical town hall.

The session marked the first of 12 community consultations held across the New England and Upper Hunter regions to discuss the revised transmission study corridor for the New England Renewable Energy Zone linking Muswellbrook and Walcha.

It includes two high-voltage transmission lines in the Walcha local government area, totalling about 60 kilometr

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