Environment

  • LAKE PLAN: Residents rally for Lake Colac

    THE COST of dredging Lake Colac is among the list of issues Colac community members would like to investigate to improve the city’s natural asset.

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  • Thousands of dead fish at Lake Colac

    A LAKE COLAC watcher says he believes up to 500 tonnes of carp have died in the lake, contradicting the EPA’s estimated of up to 300.

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  • HERPES HOPE: Carp herpes virus could control pest

    A COLAC fisherman says he hopes authorities will introduce a virus which could kill carp in Lake Colac without harming native fish.

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  • Push to poison carp in Colac waterways

    A COLAC fisherman is calling on the community to help pressure the State Government to clean up Lake Colac as water levels drop.

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  • Lake Colac fish kill likely next month

    THE ENVIRONMENT Protection Authority has forecast a mass “fish-death event” in Lake Colac next month as the shoreline continues to recede.

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  • Otways project will help jobless and environment

    YOUNG Colac and district jobseekers could have a chance to gain work experience and an income in the Otways next year through the area’s first Green Army project.

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  • Colac district wind farm construction begins early 2016

    CONSTRUCTION of a Colac district wind farm will start early next year with a revised plan involving fewer turbines and a grid-connection change.

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  • Project to relocate up to 600 Cape Otway koalas

    LORNE will become the new home for up to 600 koalas translocated from Cape Otway over the next month.

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