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Submission to Draft Terms of Reference

PAGE has completed and sent its draft terms of reference submission to PB. Thank you to all who contributed to it. Thank you also to those who sent in their own submissions and who shared them with us, to make sure we were being as thorough as possible in the PAGE submission. You can read the PAGE submission on the website at the following address:

http://www.saveeumundi.org/downloadfiles/PAGE-Submission-DraftToR.pdf

Powerlink’s Property Access Request

You may have received a letter from Powerlink requesting you to sign a Permission To Enter form so the company can undertake preliminary research on your land in regard to its Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed power lines corridor. This is a very unclear document, which PAGE is having reviewed by a solicitor to determine whether the request is legal and reasonable.

PAGE sees Powerlink’s attempt to access land at any time in the next 18 months as excessive. Indeed, it is before the Terms of Reference have been finalised, it does not state a notice period for visits, weed control measures, impacts on livestock times of day for visits and many other matters.

Please do not feel that you have to sign this document by the date (08 February 2008) that Powerlink has indicated. It is simply their wish that this information is sent back by this date, but you have the right to be sure about your position before you sign. As soon as PAGE has received advice on this issue, we will pass this on to you via email.

If you have received a Permission To Enter form and have particular circumstances that are of concern to you, you must consider obtaining your own legal advice. PAGE can not accept responsibility for any actions undertaken by a party that relies on the advice we receive and pass on in good faith.

Powerlink’s CEO Letter to the Minister

Powerlink’s CEO, Gordon Jardine, has written to the Minister for Mines & Energy in an attempt to discredit PAGE and to trivialise and dismiss the community’s concerns over the company’s power line project. We are actively engaging with a range of Local and State politicians on this issue, to seek their support in our attempts to have alternatives to the project considered.

The New Alignment

Powerlink are talking to some landholders regarding what they term “a refinement of the alignment”. At the moment a definitive version of the changes in the line has not been confirmed by Powerlink, but we will advise as soon as we know.

Personal Stories

Everyone affected by the corridor has a story to tell. We want to know your story.

Please write to us, telling us what impact the corridor will have on you and your family (or your business), what your concerns are, and why. Don’t make it too long! Try for about a page of typing – or less if you have less to say, and perhaps slightly longer if you’ve got more. We will then help you turn that into a Letter to the Editor for a newspaper, letter to the Minister and/or a short article for the local press. The more people, and especially politicians, who know about how many people are being negatively impacted by Powerlink’s power line corridor and exactly how – the more we can put a human face on the pain that Powerlink is causing – the more pressure we can exert to stop the project in its current form.

Events Manager

Powerlink is a multi-million dollar company who routinely mows over the wishes and concerns of small communities, because they are just not equipped to adequately fight back. We need to employ professionals to comment on the Environmental Impact Statement when it is released, or we risk being ignored and going the same way as so many other small communities.

Eumundi Markets have offered PAGE a venue for fund raising events. We have an excellent guest speaker who is prepared to donate his time. What we first need now, however, is someone who is experienced in Events Management. Can you, or someone you know, offer this expertise?

Contact

Graham Smith, Coordinator
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE)
Email: contact@saveeumundi.org