Can WA Labor deliver election promise of $150m vanadium battery for Kalgoorlie by 2029?

Western Australia’s vanadium industry literally went up in smoke in 2014.

A fire in the processing plant at the Windimurra mine near Mount Magnet in the state’s Midwest cost its owners millions, forcing its closure, and WA has not had an operating vanadium mine since. 

While there have been plans…