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Benjamin Millar Kelly Conroy has battled atrocious conditions to spearhead a monumental effort in the community campaign for high-voltage power lines planned to run through Moorabool to be buried underground. Ms Conroy took off at 7am on Friday on a run to raise awareness of AusNet’s plan to install a series of 85-metre towers carrying high-voltage lines from beyond Ballarat through Moorabool and Melton and into Sydenham. Her original plan was to run 160 kilometres to highlight just how far the wires will travel and how much of the landscape will be impacted. Facing fierce winds throughout ...

Date Time Mineral sands mining licensing process begins Kalbar Operations Ltd Pty has applied for a mining licence in relation to the proposed Fingerboards Mineral Sands Project in Gippsland. A decision on the mining licence will not be made until the Environmental Effects Statement (EES) process has concluded and the Minister for Planning has issued an assessment of the environmental impacts of the project. The mining licence application process provides an opportunity for public submissions to be made to inform Earth Resources Regulations ‘s decision to grant or refuse a licence. The mini...

Offshore wind turbines off Copenhagen, Denmark. DRAFT scopes of the Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Effects Statement for Australia’s first offshore wind project, Star of the South, off Port Albert, are available for public review and comment until midnight on July 27. Star of the South chief development officer Erin Coldham said the project was using leading technology to collect important data on migrating bird flight paths to inform the project’s environmental assessments and design. Specialist equipment with a state-of-the-art high-resolution camera is capturing data ...

1 April 2021 AGL Energy’s recently announced plans to split up its energy business, carving out its fossil fuel assets into a separate business, have raised fresh fears that the company has not set aside sufficient funds to properly decommission its coal fired power stations. Environmental legal advocacy group Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) says that the split of the AGL business will create significant uncertainty about the future of the company’s coal and gas projects and that there is a lack of detail currently available on AGL’s plans. AGL announced this week that it is propo...

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