 Good morning everybody. I've just come back from a flight over the mines and things are looking extremely good. The northern batters in particular, a lot of work being carried out in that area. And as I mentioned yesterday we're now starting to progress down the southern batters. Work's commenced there. We've got additional pumps and cannons, water cannons on the southern batters at the northeast end. And work in particular they're taking off the top edge of that batter and we will water bomb that this afternoon ready for tomorrow for the weather conditions tomorrow. We'll also move into that hotspot we've got in the middle of Delta and Charlie sectors and we'll work on that ready for tomorrow as well. We're bringing in additional resources this afternoon, two additional medium helicopters and extra ground crews along with four graders to prepare for tomorrow to have them on standby for a response for anything that comes out of the mine like it did last Tuesday. So we've done a lot of planning around that and we're well prepared. What are you expecting and when? Well the weather is difficult to determine exactly when but our predictions are from nine o'clock onwards tomorrow morning we'll get some mixing down of the upper level winds from at about a thousand metres downwards and that will impact on us at the Hazelwood mine. So we could have some erratic wind behaviour and with quite a bit of strength behind it up to 40km plus. So that gives us, it's in the north northwest so that will give us a pressure on the southern batter of fire coming out of that area. What are you expecting in comparison to last Tuesday and I suppose you're expecting to lose some ground on this fire? Look I reckon we may slip backwards slightly because the wind that we will experience will impact on the batters for sure but we're in a lot better position today than what we were last Monday. So I think that will make the extreme difference. We're actually a lot way further ahead in this firefight than when we were a week ago and we will have some impact but hopefully we can get on top of that very quickly and bring it back to the good position we're in right now. We heard Craig Lapsley say this morning that the fire was 85% contained. Can you confirm that and tell us where you're at in this fire and how things are looking heading towards the weekend? Yeah that would be about my estimates. Particularly if we look at the northern batters we're actually measuring those as I said yesterday in linear units. We've only got two of those units now that have 100% hotspots within them. I must say there are still plenty of hotspots on these batters and we are working on those but they're small enough for us to work on and contain further before the wind actually hits us tomorrow. So we've got some time up this afternoon. We'll start water bombing very heavily on the southern batters this afternoon so you'll see a lot of aircraft movement around the mine this afternoon in preparation for tomorrow. There was talk of some sort of calculated collapse in that southern area to get rid of that hot sinkhole. Is that still happening? I looked at that sinkhole just before and it's looking really really good. It's actually the earth in that area has dropped to the point where it's no longer a problem to us. What we're doing in the area adjacent that is removing some debris and material in that area so our crews can get in and safely work as I've maintained all along safety of our people, safety of the mines people and the community is our number one priority. So we need to do that to make the area safe for our crews to get in there. The mines are already in there and laying, starting to lay additional pipe work for us to continue to cool that hot area. Can you tell us more about the pipe work? The pipe work, the mains that were being pulled in, the mains have been pulled in and they're currently being put in place. We hope for them to be up and running on Thursday. That is about taking water out of the mine so once the large pumps are hooked up to this 4.7 kilometres of main it will take water from the ponds and put it into the treatment plant before going back into the Hazelwood Pond. So it's water in, water out as we said but it's in our favour at the moment. So those pipes will be reticulating the water from the Hazelwood Pondage into the mine? They do. The water comes in from the mine on a metered manner. When water drops low in the mine it opens up the valves and allows additional water to come into the mains but whatever comes into the mine has to go out of the mine. So at the moment we're taking more out than what we originally planned and that gives us more firefighting water. So it's very much a positive for us. How big a job has it been to put that system, you know it's taken a lot of weeks. Can you tell us, can you honour it statistically? The pipe work on the northern batters went in and is in and fully operational now. The sprinkler systems are in there working and that's aided us significantly to get the job done. It did take the mines a while to put that in. They again pulled piping across from your lawn to hook into that system and now that it's in and operating they're actually enhancing it to get greater pressure in there for us. So they're actually enhancing that reticulated system on an ongoing basis. Should those systems have already been in place before the fire started? Look I can't comment on that. That's actually something you'll have to ask the mines. What kind of marks they were in place previously and if they were removed? I would imagine as the mine was in place when they mined that particular component or that batter there would have been a reticulated system in there. What can the Moorwill community expect tomorrow? The Moorwill community again another rough day, whether or not late in the day we'll have a southwesterly change and that southwesterly change the winds will be up for two to three hours and that again will put the smoke over the Moorwill community in particular. So yes they will be impacted again tomorrow but up until the change it'll be in the north northwest and it would be obviously Churchill and those areas that we'll be copying a bit of smoke. What's the worst case scenario when the winds change tomorrow morning? Worst case scenario for us would be that we have a run out of the mine like we did last Tuesday and if that was to impact on the power station itself then that would have a significant impact on the overall operations. Last Tuesday we stopped the run of the fire from impacting on the bunker system there at the mines and the conveyor belts. We were on top of that very quickly. Our attack aircraft actually put out hot fire in the conveyor belt system so that was very much a big advantage for us to have the right resources in the right place at the right time and really ensure that happens again tomorrow. How likely is that scenario occurring given the kind of the better grip you have on the situation now than you did last time around? The southern batters are still very hot in some areas and there are some still some burning face along the southern edge so there is a risk of this happening tomorrow. All we can do is plan and be prepared for it and if it does come out of the mine then we'll hopefully get it under control very quickly. Probably any closer to knowing when this fire might be be able to be handed over to GDFS? Yeah again we've still got a lot of work to do. I made the comment yesterday and that was we're reading an elephant here. We've had we've had a few bites of the elephant yesterday and and today we'll have a few more. We'll continue to work forward. There's a lot of work to be done yet. How long it will take us so I can't give you an accurate determination on that? In terms of the fire being contained though Commissioner Lapsley said today that he's hopeful that after the weekend that that could potentially be a possibility meaning there won't be as much smoke going into the more community. Is that your understanding? Yeah that's what we're working towards. Our whole strategy is about reducing the impact on the community and we're concentrating on those areas that are putting up the most smoke at the moment. The centre of the mine floor is giving us a little bit of grief on there and we are water bombing that and the mines are also putting water resources into that area so wherever we've got a hot spot we're trying to cool that to the point where it does take the impact off the community. That's our overall aim here. As far as containment is concerned it'll all again it'll all depend on tomorrow. We can have five steps forward and we can have six steps back. Let's hopefully we could just keep moving forward. The community's probably seen a bit of a reduction in smoke over recent days. Would that be due to the wind or is that due to the actual progress that's being made in there? My opinion it's a bit of both. The wind conditions and the weather have been favourable for us over the last three or four days but very much so. There is a far reduced smoke haze coming from that mine then then each time I've driven into more wool it's it has reduced but if flying it just a just half an hour ago the the smoke haze off the mine itself is far far reduced. So winning this fight? I reckon we are. I personally do. Whether dependent we are winning the battle.