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THE company behind the proposed $2 billion coal-to-fertiliser plant in the Latrobe Valley will push the project to detailed design stage after successful trials in Germany. Latrobe Fertilisers, a subsidiary of Australian Energy Company, aims to use low-emissions technology to produce nitrogen-rich fertiliser urea from Latrobe Valley brown coal.

THOUSANDS of tonnes of poisonous oxides of nitrogen are being pumped into the air over the Upper Hunter and Lake Macquarie despite warnings about their health effects.

"It's clear there would be immense value in improved monitoring close to communities in those areas." Hunter New England Health population physician David Durrheim says more information is needed about the concentrations to which communities are exposed to poisonous nitrogen oxides in the Upper Hunter and Lake Macquarie .

THE State Government has rejected suggestions that nitrogen levels in Port Phillip Bay are nearing crisis point and that its economic argument for channel deepening has been undermined.

NOWRA trainer Robert Price is hoping for a change of luck with Nitrogen Narcosis and Machado in the Windang Class 2 Handicap (1200m) at Kembla Grange today.