Fifth Shell Clyde chimney falls, appropriately, at fifth attempt.
Demolition crews have finally managed to bring down a chimney stack at a defunct oil refinery in Sydney’s west after several failed attempts, over the past few days.
The stack came down after five attempts and a day and half after the other four, which were all slated for demolition, on the site of the former Shell refinery at Clyde.
An explosion at the base of the stack was finally enough to shatter its foundations on Monday and it slowly toppled over.
Emergency crews gave the all clear late on Monday and lifted the exclusion zone that was in place around the area.
Yesterday four of the stacks came down without a hitch, after hundreds of holes were drilled in the structures and 50 kilograms of explosives rigged to each, but one remained standing.
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