MEG Newsletters
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
- Koalas - Gordon Plantation update & CSIRO monitoring program.
- Platypus breeding season has arrived. Keep them safe!
- What's your election issue?
- Final chapter in Bacchus Marsh's Westgate Tunnel spoil saga.
- Ballan battery update.
- Pros and cons of firewood use.
- Read Newsletter here.
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
- The plight of koalas in Gordon.
- Biodiversity, climate change and high voltage power routes.
- Ballan Battery update.
- Swifties of Moorabool Shire.
- Threatened species, nature and environmental protection.
- Savage salvage operations in Wombat Forest.
- Vale Harry van Moorst.
- Read newsletter here.
Summer 2021
Spring 2022
Summer 2021
- Threatened species at risk from WVTN.
- Westgate tunnel spoil - Supreme Court update.
- Wombat-Lederderg National Park - a half done deal.
- Community Battery for Ballan?
- Flowering now... Dianella, Flax Lily.
- Read newsletter here.
MEG in the News
Unsuccessful bid sees approval revoked
EPA under fire over handling of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel
EPA under fire over handling of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel
Maddingley Brown Coal (MBC) has had its approval to store contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel Project revoked...
EPA under fire over handling of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel
EPA under fire over handling of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel
EPA under fire over handling of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel
Victoria's Ombudsman has strongly criticised the state's environmental regulator over its management of contaminated soil...
Forest salvaging not logging
EPA under fire over handling of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel
Energy building for community battery
Over 100 people have protested a “destructive salvage operation” undertaken in the Wombat State Forest...
Energy building for community battery
West Gate Tunnel dispute: EPA to quash approval on contaminated soil dumping
Energy building for community battery
A webinar about the feasibility of a community battery in Ballan has generated a lot of positive energy, and though it is still early days...
Andrews government taken to court over West Gate Tunnel soil
West Gate Tunnel dispute: EPA to quash approval on contaminated soil dumping
West Gate Tunnel dispute: EPA to quash approval on contaminated soil dumping
The Andrews government is being sued by a group of residents and a council in Melbourne’s west over plans to dump soil contaminated...
West Gate Tunnel dispute: EPA to quash approval on contaminated soil dumping
West Gate Tunnel dispute: EPA to quash approval on contaminated soil dumping
West Gate Tunnel dispute: EPA to quash approval on contaminated soil dumping
... the EPA... admitt[ed] it did not have the legal grounds to approve a plan to send PFAS-contaminated soil to... Bacchus Marsh. ...