Offshore wind turbines off Copenhagen, Denmark.
DRAFT scopes of the Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Effects Statement for Australia’s first offshore wind project, Star of the South, off Port Albert, are available for public review and comment until midnight on July 27.
Star of the South chief development officer Erin Coldham said the project was using leading technology to collect important data on migrating bird flight paths to inform the project’s environmental assessments and design.
Specialist equipment with a state-of-the-art high-resolution camera is capturing data on the types of birds and their behaviours in and around the proposed site off the south coast of Gippsland.
The federal government has a four-step plan to get back to something resembling life as we knew it pre-COVID, and it all hinges on yet-to-be-announced vaccination targets.
AUSTRALIA will transition from trying to suppress COVID-19 to living with the disease once enough of the population is vaccinated.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week announced a four-phase plan to transition Australia from its first phase of virus suppression to a fourth phase of something resembling life as it was pre-pandemic.
Each new phase will be triggered when Australia hits a threshold of vaccinated people.
Mr Morrison said the current phase, phase one, involved vaccinating, preparing and planning.
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