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The Latrobe City Council says Government assistance will be needed to transition to a low carbon future.
Topics: programs-and-initiatives, coal, electricity-energy-and-utilities, work, local-government, federal-government, morwell-3840, sale-3850
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| UpdatedMorwell residents were warned to stay inside on the weekend because of high carbon monoxide levels from the Hazelwood mine fire.
Topics: industrial-fires, fires, environmental-impact, environmental-management, air-pollution, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedVictorian authorities have confirmed 45 houses have been destroyed in the 432 grassfires that burned across the state since last weekend.
Topics: bushfire, melbourne-3000, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedBushfires are continuing to burn out of control on both side of the Snowy River in far East Gippsland at Jack River and Devon North near Yarram and north-west of Bairnsdale.
Topics: fires, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, bushfire, devon-north-3971, sale-3850, morwell-3840
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The Country Fire Authority (CFA) has issued an all clear for the fires in the Morwell area this morning after a cool night with little wind.
Topics: fires, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, morwell-3840, walpa-3875
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Tens of thousands of head of livestock are believed to have died in bushfires in Victoria in recent days.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, fires, bushfire, livestock-welfare, livestock, sheep-production, beef-cattle, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, darraweit-guim-3756, gisborne-3437, numurkah-3636, morwell-3840, orbost-3888, kilmore-3764
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Victorian Agriculture Minister Peter Walsh says tens of thousands of sheep and cattle are thought to have died in this week's bushfires.
Topics: livestock, livestock-welfare, bushfire, agribusiness, agricultural-crops, melbourne-3000, darraweit-guim-3756, morwell-3840, numurkah-3636, gisborne-3437
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| UpdatedAt least seven firefighters have been treated for carbon monoxide exposure while fighting the fire in the Hazelwood coal mine.
The Country Fire Authority says the specialist firefighters needed medical treatment after finding they had higher than normal levels of carbon monoxide in their blood because the smoke from the underground fire contains elevated levels of carbon monoxide.
Craig Lapsley, the Fire Services Commissioner, says the safety of all firefighters is always the highest priority.
Topics: bushfire, emergency-incidents, morwell-3840
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Nick Lapenta helps to rebuild fences at his cousin's deer farm near Morwell.
Topics: rural, morwell-3840
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Sixteen fires are still burning across Gippsland.
Topics: fires, emergency-incidents, morwell-3840, sale-3850, devon-north-3971
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| UpdatedThe operators of the Hazelwood power station hope to resume full power generation by tomorrow.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, bushfire, morwell-3840
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Topics: agribusiness, rural, livestock, dairy-production, disasters-and-accidents, fires, bushfire, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedTopics: agribusiness, rural, livestock, dairy-production, disasters-and-accidents, fires, bushfire, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedAt least 28 fires continue to burn across Victoria on the second day of the state's bushfire crisis.
Topics: bushfire, emergency-incidents, kilmore-3764, mickleham-3064, morwell-3840, bonang-3888
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| UpdatedSeveral fires at Morwell burned overnight at the open cut coal mine and the Maryvale paper factory
Topics: bushfire, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedDozens of bushfires have burnt across large swathes of Victoria, destroying homes and farms, on a day of the worst fire conditions since Black Saturday.
There has been no official confirmation of the number of properties lost but ABC reporters saw homes razed in the Gisborne, Craigieburn and Warrandyte areas.
High temperatures and strong winds fanned the intense and fast-moving blazes, as a weather change swept across the state bringing wind gusts up to 100 kilometres per hour.
At times there were up to 16 concurrent emergency warnings issued for fires burning across the state.
Meanwhile, in South Australia, the Bangor fire is slowly burning towards the towns of Beetaloo, Beetaloo Valey, Laura, Stone-Hutt, Wirrabara and Wirrabarra Forest.
The fire has burnt more than 30,000 hectares since it first started three weeks ago, including more than 10,000 hectares since it broke containment lines on Saturday.
Topics: bushfire, fires, morwell-3840, warrandyte-3113, craigieburn-3064, gisborne-3437, vic, australia, sa
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| UpdatedPolice say a fire at the Yallourn power station in Gippsland in June last year was caused by an act of sabotage.
Detective Sergeant Alan Rumble says police are asking anyone with information about the fire to come forward.
Topics: industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, unions, morwell-3840, melbourne-3000
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The Liberal Member for Eastern Victoria, Phillip Davis, has delivered his final speech to Parliament after 21 years in the job.
Topics: federal-parliament, liberals, morwell-3840, sale-3850
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Australian Paper has won an industry award for innovation for its recycling pulp mill at Maryvale.
Topics: company-news, awards-and-prizes, morwell-3840, sale-3850
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| UpdatedA magistrate has chosen not to send a man to jail because he had already spent two weeks in an overcrowded police holding cell.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, fraud-and-corporate-crime, morwell-3840, sale-3850, leongatha-3953
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The new Mayor of Latrobe City Council, Sharon Gibson, says her election will give the council a fresh start.
Topics: local-government, morwell-3840, sale-3850
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The Victorian Higher Education Minister, Peter Hall, has launched a Technology Enabled Learning Centre at GippsTAFE in Morwell.
Topics: university-and-further-education, vocational, states-and-territories, morwell-3840, sale-3850
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The number of road deaths in the Latrobe Police Service Area has increased since 2011.
Topics: road, morwell-3840, moe-3825
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An independent energy economist has questioned the financial viability of new low emission brown coal power generation in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.
Topics: coal, electricity-energy-and-utilities, environmental-management, morwell-3840, sale-3850
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Large-scale diesel injection engines that use brown coal as a fuel could replace Latrobe Valley brown coal power stations.
Topics: coal, environmental-management, electricity-energy-and-utilities, morwell-3840, sale-3850