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Yallourn trucks go electric

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC YALLOURN Power station transport trials are going green. EnergyAustralia has partnered with Foton Mobility Distribution (FMD) to test replacing diesel trucks with...

Tradies Safety Awareness Month

By KATRINA BRANDON SAFETY awareness is very important in all trades and walks of life, but some struggle. Twenty-five to 30 per cent of people...

Cancer battle marathon fundraiser

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC It’s acts of kindness that drive humanity. Trafalgar’s Jodi Thoroughgood and Drouin’s Briony Schembri will run the Melbourne Marathon to raise awareness...

Bourne’s Simpson Desert effort

By TOM HAYES COULD you imagine trotting across a desert in 30 degree heat? Not me. Traralgon local Blake Bourne has recently returned from his trip...

Labor calls for restoration of forests

By PHILIP HOPKINS A FORMER Gippsland forestry scientist and historian has described a Labor Party environmental report that calls to end native forest harvesting and...

Police Beat: Poisoning investigation continues

POLICE BEAT   HOMICIDE SQUAD DETECTIVES CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE LEONGATHA POISONING HOMICIDE Squad detectives are investigating after three people died from suspected mushroom poisoning in Leongatha. Four people...

The Valley’s Voice

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC ANOTHER protest was held outside the Gippsland Performing Arts Centre during the most recent Latrobe City Council meeting, in opposition to the...

What’s next for EnergyAustralia?

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC ENERGYAUSTRALIA has committed to a $400 million investment at the Yallourn Power Station to underpin improved asset reliability, safety, and performance ahead...

Bringing the Rosedale Hotel back

By KATRINA BRANDON THE Rosedale Hotel is under new management and is bracing for the day that Rosedale is no longer “the town with no...

Valley Transition Plan released

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC MINISTER for Regional Development, and Morwell-based MP, Harriet Shing last week announced the completion of the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland Transition Plan,...

Energy Australia battery plans

By PHILIP HOPKINS ENERGY Australia is to build an $800 million, 350 megawatt-capacity battery in the Latrobe Valley, that is expected to be in operation...

Major upgrade for Jeeralang power station

By PHILIP HOPKINS THE refurbishing of the Jeeralang gas power station was no slick corporate deal; it was a convoluted, international process of pure luck...

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Delburn turbines could be as tall as Loy Yang cooling towers

By AIDAN KNIGHT   THE State Electricity Commission hosted a series of drop-in sessions recently, catering to both community and industry, in an effort to educate...