Port Augusta

• Wind farm depiction image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 09:48:39

  Topics: wind-energy, solar-energy, port-augusta-5700, cairns-4870, atherton-4883

• SA prison lockdown ends

  Posted February 16, 2017 11:29:55 | Updated February 16, 2017 12:29:09

  A lockdown of South Australian prisons ends as the union representing prison staff and the State Government head to the Industrial Relations Commission.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321, sa

• Overcrowding worries prompts SA prisons lockdown

  By Lauren Waldhuter

  Posted February 15, 2017 15:59:44 | Updated February 15, 2017 19:16:10

  A union places inmates in all South Australian prisons in lockdown over what it says is a failing by the Corrections Department to address overcrowding concerns.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, sa, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321

• SA's far north to sweat through 'unusually' long heatwave

  Posted February 08, 2017 09:04:36 | Updated February 08, 2017 09:09:46

  A severe heatwave in South Australia's far north could see some towns sweat through 14 days straight of temperatures reaching more than 40 degrees Celsius.

  Topics: weather, innamincka-5731, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa

• Rural phone users protest suggestion landlines be replaced by NBN

  ABC Rural

  By Sarina Locke

  Posted February 02, 2017 13:22:45 | Updated February 02, 2017 18:48:53

  People living in regional areas are not just worried about poor internet access, they are now worried they will lose their reliable landline phone following a Productivity Commission draft report.

  Topics: wireless-communication, mobile-phones, regional-development, rural-media, sydney-2000, wollongong-2500, orange-2800, cairns-4870, port-augusta-5700

• Port Augusta ash suppression to take longer than expected

  Posted January 14, 2017 08:35:14

  Aerial efforts to control dust at Port Augusta will take up to 10 days longer than expected, the Environment Protection Authority says.

  Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, health, respiratory-diseases, port-augusta-5700, sa, adelaide-5000

• EPA notice orders more dust monitoring at Port Augusta

  By political reporter Angelique Donnellan

  Posted January 10, 2017 18:32:44

  The Environmental Protection Authority slaps the owner of the Port Augusta power station with a formal notice requiring it to stop ash dust blowing over the city.

  Topics: land-pollution, pollution, air-pollution, environment, health, respiratory-diseases, environmental-health, port-augusta-5700, sa

• SA Government pays for health checks for ash-affected residents

  Posted January 09, 2017 08:56:29 | Updated January 09, 2017 15:45:16

  Port Augusta residents worried about the impacts of an ash cloud blowing over the regional city will have their health checks paid for by the South Australian Government.

  Topics: air-pollution, pollution, environment, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, port-augusta-5700, sa

• Port Augusta ash cloud needs 'more testing', chemist warns

  Posted January 07, 2017 15:32:40 | Updated January 07, 2017 16:13:45

  More testing is required to ascertain any health risks posed by an ash cloud coming from the former Port Augusta power station, a former industrial chemist says.

  Topics: pollution, building-and-construction, environment, health, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa

• SA suffers another scorcher as summer hits its stride

  Posted January 07, 2017 09:46:28 | Updated January 07, 2017 16:06:23

  South Australia is enduring a third day of sweltering heat with temperatures hitting 40 degrees Celsius in Adelaide and 43C in the Mid North.

  Topics: weather, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, sa

• Ash cloud rises from former Port Augusta power station Video

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  ABC News

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  Posted January 06, 2017 16:36:46 | Updated January 07, 2017 15:40:31

  Ash waste from the former Port Augusta power station in South Australia's north continues to pose a health threat for residents.

  Topics: mining-environmental-issues, port-augusta-5700

• Plan to turn ash into building materials could create hundreds of jobs

  Posted January 06, 2017 11:37:54 | Updated January 06, 2017 18:09:57

  A proposal to convert potentially toxic ash dust at Port Augusta into building blocks and pavers could create hundreds of jobs, senator Nick Xenophon says.

  Topics: pollution, building-and-construction, environment, health, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa

• Fears over ash in Port Augusta prompt calls for minister's sacking

  Posted January 05, 2017 17:15:36

  The SA Opposition calls on the Government to sack Environment Minister Ian Hunter over his handling of a deepening pollution controversy in Port Augusta.

  Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, pollution, environment, government-and-politics, sa, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000

• Angry residents confront minister over Port Augusta ash plumes

  By political reporter Angelique Donnellan

  Posted January 04, 2017 17:38:41

  Residents wearing face masks heckle SA's Environment Minister, demanding an end to a dust problem emanating from Port Augusta's former power station.

  Topics: land-pollution, air-pollution, respiratory-diseases, health, pollution, environmental-health, environment, port-augusta-5700, sa, adelaide-5000

• Ash blankets SA city after heavy rain breaks 'crust'

  ABC Adelaide

  Posted January 04, 2017 10:52:48 | Updated January 04, 2017 14:52:37

  Ash blanketing Port Augusta from the regional city's former coal-fired power station is so toxic it could not even be classified as waste fill, South Australian senator Nick Xenophon says.

  Topics: pollution, air-pollution, environment, health, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa

• Port Augusta power station ash could be toxic, SA Health says

  By state political reporter Angelique Donnellan

  Posted January 03, 2017 17:44:38 | Updated January 03, 2017 19:31:53

  Dust blowing across Port Augusta from the local former coal-fired power station has "toxic potential", an SA Health assessment finds.

  Topics: pollution, environment, air-pollution, health, port-augusta-5700, sa, adelaide-5000

• 'They should be concerned': Port Augusta residents warned of ash (photos)

  Posted January 03, 2017 12:34:47 | Updated January 03, 2017 13:36:03

  Residents in Port Augusta breathing in ash from the city's former coal-fired power station have good reason to be worried about their health, the Environment Protection Authority says.

  Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, coal, environmental-impact, environment, environmental-management, port-augusta-5700, sa

• Fly ash plume leaves Port Augusta residents fuming

  By Khama Reid

  Posted January 02, 2017 19:17:36

  Plumes of fly ash from Port Augusta's old coal-fired power station are raising health concerns for residents.

  Topics: health, environment, environmental-impact, rural, sa, port-augusta-5700

• Adelaide set for hottest Christmas Day since 1945

  ABC Adelaide

  Posted December 22, 2016 10:40:18 | Updated December 22, 2016 18:31:59

  Adelaide is preparing for its hottest Christmas Day in more than 70 years as heatwave conditions hit parts of South Australia.

  Topics: weather, adelaide-5000, leigh-creek-5731, hawker-5434, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, robe-5276, sa

• Lifeline branches merge to improve service delivery

  ABC Broken Hill

  By Sofie Wainwright

  Posted December 06, 2016 11:31:49

  Two Lifeline branches have merged into one entity in a bid to improve service delivery and maximise resources.

  Topics: suicide, regional, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, federal-government, counselling, broken-hill-2880, port-augusta-5700, port-pirie-5540, whyalla-5600, clare-5453

• Life and hope return for abandoned outback pastoral station

  By Khama Reid

  Posted November 24, 2016 17:03:50

  Fences are being fixed and a bore and tanks put in, as life is restored at what had been an abandoned pastoral station in outback South Australia.

  Topics: environmental-management, community-and-society, community-development, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, port-augusta-5700, sa

• Transitioning from coal: How do communities fare without power stations?

  Posted November 10, 2016 12:43:21 | Updated November 10, 2016 16:39:02

  Port Augusta in South Australia's mid north, and Morwell in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, have a couple of things in common.

  Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, community-and-society, morwell-3840, port-augusta-5700

• Wind farms 'hung out to dry' by energy market operator

  RN

  By David Lewis for Background Briefing

  Posted November 04, 2016 09:18:25 | Updated November 04, 2016 10:51:43

  The organisation that manages the national electricity market is accused of hanging the wind industry out to dry to protect its own reputation after the recent statewide blackout in South Australia.

  Topics: industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, regulation, business-economics-and-finance, alternative-energy, environment, wind-energy, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, sa, australia

• Carrapateena Mine construction officially launched in outback SA

  By Rebecca Opie

  Posted November 03, 2016 15:36:32 | Updated November 03, 2016 17:45:59

  A new copper mine in South Australia's north is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs in the region.

  Topics: mineral-sands, business-economics-and-finance, port-augusta-5700, sa, whyalla-5600

• Fishing bag and boat limits cut in wide-ranging SA changes

  Posted November 02, 2016 11:33:32 | Updated November 02, 2016 21:05:57

  Big fishing changes will affect the catch allowed from South Australian waters, and a wide zone will have an annual spawning closure, the State Government reveals.

  Topics: environmental-management, environment, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, fishing-aquaculture, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, sa, mount-gambier-5290, port-lincoln-5606, port-pirie-5540, renmark-5341

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