20 years ago
February 18, 2000
Geelong Environment Council yesterday launched a new legal bid to stop Geelong Cement burning toxic industrial waste water.
The group announced it would lodge a second application to the Victorian Civil Administrative Appeals Tribunal (VCAAT) to outlaw the controversial practice.
15 years ago
February 18, 2005
A Maori tribe is claiming it owns Harding Park in Victorian Supreme Court.
The claim is the latest controversy to rock the Brougham St site, part-way through a multi-million dollar redevelopment.
10 years ago
February 19, 2010
Armstrong Creek residents could have chickens for neighbours after removal of a traditional buffer requirement, according to concerned farmers.
Victorian Farmers Federation chicken meat group president Michael Shaw said he was concerned planners might have deliberately removed the buffer, requiring homes to stay 1000 metres from chicken farms to avoid noise, odours and dust.
5 years ago
February 20, 2015
A woman in an emotional battle with Geelong Animal Welfare Society over her missing cat is further traumatised after an unrelated bashing this week.
The fight with GAWS had already left Corio’s Lyndal Gill and her family deeply upset and “publicly humiliated“ amid accusations of lying, she told the Independent.
