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      Hazelwood power station: from modernist icon to greenhouse pariah 

      Published on 31st March 2017 06:05 AM
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      Hazelwood in happier times

      The roar of the furnaces, the rattle of the conveyors, and the occasional whoop of a siren marked out both day and night at Hazelwood. The pungent smell of brown coal permeates the air, and the fine particles would work their way into your clothes, hair and shoes.
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      Hazelwood closure: what it means for electricity prices and blackouts 

      Published on 30th March 2017 06:00 AM
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      Hazelwood’s closure does not mean imminent blackouts for Victoria

      Victoria’s Hazelwood power station was shut down this week after nearly 50 years of supplying electricity.
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      Recycling can be confusing, but it’s getting simpler 

      Published on 28th March 2017 06:05 AM
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      What you can recycle depends on where you live

      At first glance, Australians appear to be good recyclers: ABS figures report that in 2012 about 94% of households participated in some way in kerbside recycling. State waste authorities also report a consistent increase in the volume of materials recovered for recycling.
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      Three rivers are now legally people – but that’s just the start of looking after them 

      Published on 25th March 2017 06:05 AM
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      The Whanganui River: now a legal person

      In the space of a week, the world has gained three notable new legal persons: the Whanganui River in New Zealand, and the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers in India.
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      Victory - Shooters banned from killing waterbirds 

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      Published on 24th March 2017 03:19 PM  Number of Views: 269 
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      Is this the beginning of the end of the slaughter?

      BREAKING NEWS: Shooters have been banned from four of Victoria’s most popular wetlands, including the Koorangie Game Reserve where we reported live from last week — and where hundreds of native waterbirds were massacred or left for dead over ‘opening weekend’.
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      Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains 

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      A degraded wetland in the Pilot Wilderness area, Kosciuszko National Park, is subject to increasing numbers of feral horses

      Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s plan for a A$2 billion upgrade and expansion of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme, announced last week, will be an impressive engineering achievement. Snowy Hydro 2.0 will increase the scheme’s capacity by 50%.
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      Gas crisis? Energy crisis? The real problem is lack of long-term planning 

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      The long view: energy policy needs to stay firmly focused on the horizon

      If you’ve been watching the news in recent days, you’ll know we have an energy crisis, partly due to a gas crisis, which in turn has triggered a political crisis.
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