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news: tuesday, 17 april 2012
HRL freezes Latrobe Valley power station plans after legal ruling
Plans for a new coal and gas-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley have been put on ice after a legal ruling that it cannot be built until a deal is struck to shut an existing coal plant...more
news: monday, 16 april 2012
HRL puts Vic Dual Gas project on ice
Dual Gas has stopped work on its project to build a new power station in Victoria, saying its future has been put into the federal government's hands...more
news: monday, 16 april 2012
Power station project halted despite legal victory
The company planning to build a new Latrobe Valley power station has stopped work on the project following a recent legal battle...more
media release: monday, 16 april 2012
Time for Gillard Government to pull the pin on HRL coal grant
Today we call for the Federal Government to withdraw their $100 million grant to HRL after the announcement that HRL are stopping work on design and pre-construction activities related to the proposed coal-fired power station...more
media release: monday, 16 april 2012
Dual Gas Media Release
Dual Gas Pty Ltd has today announced that, at this stage, it has frozen further work on design and pre-construction activities...more
news: friday, 30 march 2012
Power ruling setback for EPA
The company behind a new brown coal-fuelled power plant proposed for the Latrobe Valley has won a landmark case repealing a decision to cut the size of the project in half by state environment authorities...more
news: thursday, 29 march 2012
Energy company wins VCAT challenge
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has overruled a decision by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to limit the size of a new power station in the Latrobe Valley...more
media release: thursday, 29 march 2012
Environment groups vow to continue fight against new coal power station
Today we express deep disappointment with VCAT’s decision to uphold the appeal by HRL and overturn the environmental and health-based limitations placed on HRL by the EPA...more
news: monday, 13 feburary 2012
Dual-gas project gets extension
HRL's proposed Morwell dual-gas fired power station project has been thrown a lifeline after it was granted a six-month extension to secure $100 million in Federal Government funding...more
news: friday, 10 feburary 2012
Federal Govt accused of hypocrisy over power stations
It doesn't make any sense for the Federal Government to be introducing a price on carbon and then at the same time bankrolling a polluting new power station...more
news: friday, 10 feburary 2012
Ferguson grants extension for contentious power plant project
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson will this morning throw a lifeline to a contentious coal-fired power plant project in Victoria's Latrobe Valley that is subject to a legal tussle with state environmental authorities...more
video: thursday, 9 feburary 2012
Kelvin Thomson MP tables our HRL petition in Parliament
After a roaring response to our HRL MONSTER petition calling on the feds to withdraw their financial support for HRL, Kelvin Thomson MP tabled our petition in Parliament...more
news: thursday, 9 feburary 2012
HRL petition to be tabled in Parliament
A petition calling on the Federal Government to abandon its funding pledge for a new Latrobe Valley power station will be tabled in Federal Parliament today...more
media release: thursday, 9 feburary 2012
Labor MP joins 12,667 Australians to call on Parliament to cut coal funding
Environment Victoria and Greenpeace will today deliver a petition to Parliament signed by 12,667 Australians, calling for the removal of a $100 million Federal grant for a proposed new coal power station...more
PHOTOS: Wednesday, 1 feburary 2012
STOP HRL Rally
Federal politicians Kelvin Thomson (ALP MP for the federal electorate of Wills) and Adam Bandt (Greens MP for the federal electorate of Melbourne) spoke out on the need for the government funding to be withdrawn and invested in renewables instead...more
media release: tuesday, 31 januray 2012
RALLY: Coal-fired power station funding on the line
At 12.30pm tomorrow hundreds of people will rally on the Steps of Parliament House to call on the Baillieu and Gillard Governments to withdraw their $150 million of taxpayer grants to HRL...more
news: tuesday, 7 feburary 2012
Heat's on clean coal company
Federal Energy Minister Martin Fergurson said he was considering advice from his department on the future of the project...more
news: friday, 20 january 2012
Uncertainty over future of HRL plant
There is uncertainty over the Federal Government's commitment to a new power station planned for the Latrobe Valley...more
news: monday, 9 january 2012
Assessment Ongoing
Funding for a proposed demonstration power plant near Morwell is currently under assessment by the Federal Government, after a deadline for project milestones passed on New Year's eve...more
blog: wednesday, 23 november 2011
Our legal challenge has been delayed
Our legal challenge against the proposed new coal-fired power station HRL has been unexpectedly adjourned until next year due to unforseen health issues of the tribunal Chairman...more
news: thursday, 17 november 2011
VCAT case adjourned
Challenges for and against HRL's proposed dual-fired gas plant in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal have been unexpectedly adjourned until next year...more
news: tuesday, 10 november 2011
New coal-fired power station economically unviable, says EPA expert witness
The proposed new coal-fired power station HRL is unlikely to be economically viable at either a 600MW or 300MW scale, according to expert evidence...more
news: monday, 7 november 2011
Banks shy away from proposed power station
Plans for a proposed Latrobe Valley power station have suffered another blow, with a number of international banks announcing they would not fund the project...more
news: Thursday, 3 november 2011
HRL coal plant unlikely to get bank funding
International banks, including Unicredit, BNP Paribas, HSBC and Rabobank have indicated they will not be involved with the project...more
media release: thursday, 27 october 2011
Early win for environment groups in challenge to new coal-fired power station
VCAT has determined that leading environment group Environment Victoria has legal standing to bring their challenge to the EPA’s approval of...more
BLOG: tuesday, 25 october 2011
And we're off. Day 1 of EV vs EPA
It’s mid afternoon on the first day of our legal challenge against the EPAs approval of the HRL coal-fired power station...more
news: tuesday, 25 october 2011
Landmark power plant case begins
A landmark case on the future of a new coal-fuelled power plant in the Latrobe Valley has kicked off with energy company HRL seeking to knock out the right of green groups to appeal against the project...more
news: tuesday, 25 october 2011
Landmark power plant case begins
A landmark case on the future of a new coal-fuelled power plant in the Latrobe Valley has kicked off with energy company HRL seeking to knock out the right of green groups to appeal against the project...more
photos: monday, 24 october 2011
Landmark power plant case begins
This is a landmark legal challenge from the environmental community, and has enormous implications for the future of new coal-fired power stations in this state and nation wide...more
Media release: monday, 24 october 2011
Legal challenge to new coal power begins
A landmark legal challenge by environmental groups against a proposed new coal-fired power station for Victoria will begin in VCAT this morning...more
news: monday, 10 october 2011
Coal-fired plant faces funding threat
Time is running out for energy company HRL to secure its $100 million federal government grant for a proposed coal-fuelled power plant in the Latrobe Valley...more
news: friday, 2 september 2011
Axe Latrobe Valley power plant grant
HRL has breached the terms of a funding deal and should be stripped of a $100 million federal grant, the Greens say...more
news: friday, 2 september 2011
Council backs coal in Morwell gas power play
The Latrobe City Council has expressed strong support for a controversial coal-fuelled gas power plant proposed for the Latrobe Valley...more
blog: tuesday, 30 august 2011
It's official
The Baillieu Government has now made it harder to build a wind farm than a new coal mine or coal-fired power station in Victoria...more
news: monday, 29 august 2011
HRL loses bid to stop power plant challenge
The company granted approval to build a new coal-fired power plant in Victoria has failed in its bid to have a legal challenge from its opponents thrown out....more
blog: FRIDAY, 26 august 2011
HRL attempts to silence critics
Environment Victoria was back at the Victorian Administrative Appeals Tribunal this afternoon, for the next step in our legal challenge to the EPA’s decision to approve a new coal-fired power station for Victoria...more
media release: FRIDAY, 26 august 2011
HRL Coal tries to silence environment appeal against polluting new power station
The legal battle against a new coal-fired power station planned for Victoria’s Latrobe Valley took a worrying turn this afternoon in a hearing at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Melbourne...more
news: friday, 26 august 2011
Gas firm ordered to justify secrecy
A company that wants to build a brown coal- and gas-fired power station in Victoria has been ordered to explain why information about the project should remain secret...more
news: wednesday, 17 august 2011
Update from the EPA
Following EPA’s 20 May 2011 decision to grant a works approval to Dual Gas Pty Ltd for construction of a 300 MW power station, six applications for review were lodged with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal “VCAT”)...more
news: friday, 15 July 2011
Legal bid to stop Vic coal power station
Environment groups trying to stop the construction of a new coal-fired power station in Victoria say it would add millions of tonnes to Australia's annual greenhouse gas pollution...more
news: wednesday, 13 July 2011
Coal power plant could still get go-ahead
A new coal fuelled power plant currently being proposed for Victoria by energy technology company HRL could still be built under the government's carbon tax plans, Treasury modelling shows...more
news: thursday, 30 june 2011
State government handing over hundreds of millions to dirty coal company
HRL Ltd – the company proposing to build a new coal fired power plant at Morwell - is due to pay back a $385 million debt to Victorian taxpayers, but observers are expecting a back-room deal to let the company off the hook...more
news: monday, 13 JUNE 2011
Station challenge threat
The development of a proposed Latrobe Valley power plant could be delayed following the launch of a legal challenge against the project by environmental groups...more
blog: friday, 10 JUNE 2011
Environment Victoria launches appeal against new coal in Victoria
This afternoon Environment Victoria and local climate action group Local’s Into Victoria’s Environment (LIVE) launched our legal campaign against the proposed new coal fired power station for Victoria, HRL...more
news: friday, 10 JUNE 2011
Vic power station legal action launched
Construction of a new brown coal and gas power plant for Victoria could be on hold for a year as environment groups launch legal action...more
media release: friday, 10 JUNE 2011
Environment groups lodge legal challenge to new HRL coal power plant
Environment Victoria and City of Port Phillip-based climate action group LIVE have announced a legal challenge to the proposed new HRL coal-fired power station planned for Morwell in Victoria...more
news: thursday, 9 june 2011
EPA faces challenge on brown-coal power plant
Environment groups will today launch a legal challenge over the Environment Protection Authority's approval for coal-fuelled power plant in the Latrobe Valley...more
news: saturday, 28 may 2011
Closer look at coal funding
Federal funding of a controversial new coal-fuelled power plant in Victoria is under review...more
news: tuesday, 24 may 2011
Protesters demonstrate against new power plant
About 300 protesters gathered outside State Parliament this afternoon, to oppose the plan...more
news: saturday, 21 may 2011
Big banks 'no' to coal plant
Australia's four major banks have rejected funding a coal-fuelled power plant proposed for Victoria, raising doubts about its viability despite its controversial approval by the EPA...more
photos: friday, 20 may 2011
No New Coal Power for Victoria
The EPA has comprehensively failed in its duty to protect Victoria’s environment today when they approved a new coal plant for Victoria...more
news: friday, 20 may 2011
Outcry over new coal-fired plant in Victoria
Meanwhile in Victoria, environmental groups are already considering legal action over today's announcement that a new billion-dollar coal-powered station can be built in the Latrobe Valley...more
news: friday, 20 may 2011
Power plant gets partial approval
A new brown coal and gas power plant will be built in Victoria but with only half the capacity its developers wanted after being granted partial approval by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA)...more
media release: friday, 20 may 2011
Victorian Environment Protection Authority approves big pollution hike
Today the Victorian Environment Protection Agency (EPA) approved staged construction of the new HRL coal fired power station in Morwell, Victoria...more
