In accordance with the government's report, the Minister for Resources required a further rehabilitation bond from each coal mine in a three-stage process to establish: further bonds totalling 50 per cent of the Latrobe Valley coal mines' self-assessed rehabilitation liability, to be provided to the Victorian Government by June 2016 …
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A coal-to-hydrogen project in Victoria's Latrobe Valley has received a multi-billion-dollar boost, prompting concerns from an environment group about its carbon emissions. Key points:
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The Latrobe Valley has powered Victoria for over a century. Now we are left with a legacy of polluting coal ash dumps and three enormous brown coal mines that must be made safe, stable, and rehabilitated. Decisions made now will determine the viability of the region's economy, livability, and environment for many decades to come.
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The Latrobe Valley contains one of the world's largest coal deposits and nearly 90% of Australia's brown coal reserves. It currently produces approximately 70% of the State's electricity. Two coal mines/open cuts feed three major power generating stations (Loy Yang A, Loy Yang B and Yallourn) all situated in a 30km zone.
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N2 - Victoria, Australia contains 25% of the world's known brown coal reserves. Much of the coal is located in thick seams overlain by a thin veneer of sands and clays. Three brown …
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The Latrobe Valley's brown coal is used to feed mine-mouth power generation facilities to service the domestic power market. Whilst the Latrobe Valley's brown coal mines have provided the feedstock to generate much of the state's electricity for the past century, Victoria's energy transition is underway as we move to renewable …
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Near the river's mouth, agriculture—primarily dairying—is the main economic activity. Farther west, the middle Latrobe Valley has one of the world's largest deposits of brown coal; it has been exploited since 1919. There are large thermal power stations at Yallourn, Morwell, Loy Yang, and Hazelwood, all fueled by coal, and briquettes ...
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Emeritus Professor Rae Mackay. As thermal power generation comes to an end in the Latrobe valley, the rehabilitation and closure of the three lignite mines has …
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The Victorian government has supported the HESC project as a way to help the Latrobe Valley, where three coal-fired power stations are the only source of demand for an enormous brown coal resource.
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A brown-coal export hub? Tell them they're dreaming! Plans to transform Victoria's Latrobe Valley into a mining export hub are misguided. AAP. If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride ...
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Hydrogen has been produced from coal in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. A Japanese consortium wants to test whether it is possible to export the emerging fuel source. But environmental groups are ...
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About 550 km 2 of the Latrobe Valley Depression is occupied by the Yallourn Seam. Coalfield areas. There are 28 defined brown coalfields in the Latrobe Valley, Seaspray and Gelliondale-Alberton depressions (Table 4, Figure 8). This section focuses on the five main coalfield areas where current mining activity and the two most advanced coal ...
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The Australian Energy Market Operator has forecast Australia's coal power stations will close much sooner than expected. A consultancy firm says AEMO's modelling points to Victoria's coal plants ...
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The Latrobe valley is rich in one of Victoria's most important resources: lignite, or brown coal as it's commonly known. This coal is responsible for 85% of the electricity in Victoria, and also supplies electricity to Tasmania and New South Wales. The Yallourn mine is the oldest in Victoria, and Australia's second-largest open cut mine.
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Emeritus Professor Rae Mackay. As thermal power generation comes to an end in the Latrobe valley, the rehabilitation and closure of the three lignite mines has become a 'burning' issue. Hazelwood mine is closed, while Yallourn is now slated for closure in 2028. Loy Yang has plans to continue through to 2048, though the speed of …
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EnergyAustralia has announced it will close its Yallourn brown coal-fired power station in Victoria's Latrobe valley in 2028, four years earlier than planned. ... 1,480-megawatt brown coal plant ...
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About 550 km 2 of the Latrobe Valley Depression is occupied by the Yallourn Seam. Coalfield areas. There are 28 defined brown coalfields in the Latrobe Valley, Seaspray and Gelliondale-Alberton depressions (Table 4, Figure …
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The Latrobe Valley brown coal mines (Figure 1) are each at different stages of operation and rehabilitation planning. Basic datarelating to their operations are presented in Table 1. While there are some commonalities between the three, there are also significant differences that impact on regional
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The mine, in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, is bigger than Sydney Harbour and would require 637 gigalitres (GL) of water to fill. Sydney Harbour has a volume of 500GL .
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Alyssa Fritzlaff. FEDERATION University researchers are using Latrobe Valley's rehabilitated brown. coal mines in an investigation into the impacts of climate …
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Latrobe Valley's longer term future will depend on the cost of building new gas-fired plants. AAP. There appears to be lots of 'doom and gloom' around brown coal generation in Victoria's ...
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Disruptions to black coal supplies for Melbourne in the 1880s prompted the first mining of brown coal in the Latrobe Valley. Several companies were formed, the most prominent being the Great Morwell Coal Mining Company, at present Yallourn North, which mined lignite from an open cut and manufactured briquettes for a while. ...
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A world-first pilot project which will turn brown coal from Victoria's Latrobe Valley into hydrogen has been approved by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). The Hydrogen Energy Supply ...
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A giant dredging machine at work in the brown coal mine at Loy Yang in the Latrobe Valley. Credit: John Woudstra The final report from the Hazelwood fire inquiry board, which was released by the ...
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Alyssa Fritzlaff. FEDERATION University researchers are using Latrobe Valley's rehabilitated brown. coal mines in an investigation into the impacts of climate change. Professor Thomas Baumgartl is leading the project, which will focus on how changes in. rainfall patterns and increased drought will affect rehabilitated mines.
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In Gippsland's Latrobe Valley, Yallourn power station's brown coal mine has been evacuated and electricity generation has been reduced as operator Energy Australia monitors local floods. Key points:
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Planning for rehabilitation of the Latrobe Valley's brown coal mines is being bolstered with the creation of a new authority and the release of a strategy to guide mine rehabilitation over the coming decades. The Mine Land Rehabilitation Authority and the Latrobe Valley Regional Rehabilitation Strategy (LVRRS) were launched in Morwell today.
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1873 – First recorded discovery of brown coal in the Latrobe Valley. 1886 – Henry Godridge and William Tulloch prospect local brown coal outcrops independently and apply for a mining lease. This leads to the establishment of the Great Morwell Coal Mining Company, which begins operating in 1889. The mining company produces about 2000 …
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It lies in the Latrobe (La Trobe) Valley, West Gippsland, southeast of Melbourne. First settled in the 1840s, its name is Aboriginal for "crane feeding on frogs." ... Yallourn (114 miles [184 km] west). Loy Yang power station, at Traralgon, began producing electricity in the 1980s from Latrobe Valley brown coal. Limestone is quarried, and ...
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It is 17,335 kilometres from Glasgow to the brown-coal-powered electricity generators of Morwell in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. Key points: Coal-fired power generation is the single largest source ...
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