Diet Simon from Noosa Community Radio interviewed Graham Smith following PAGE’s meeting with Geoff Wilson, Minister for Mines and Energy.
You can listen to the interview on the Noosa Community Radio web site at www.noosacommunityradio.org.
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) had a long meeting with the Queensland Minister for Mines and Energy, Mr Geoff Wilson, in Brisbane on August 26, following months of requests and submissions. The meeting discussed the community’s concerns over Powerlink’s proposed Eerwah Vale powerline in the Noosa Hinterland.
The meeting was attended by the Minister [...]
19 August 2008
Mr. Bob Abbot, Mayor of Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Re: Powerlink Project
Dear Bob,
I am writing to thank you and your Council colleagues for recent public statements in support of the Eerwah Vale community in their campaign for more sustainable and
PAGE thanks Sunshine Coast Regional Council
lower impact solutions to the energy requirements of the [...]
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) will be meeting with the Queensland Minister for Mines and Energy, Mr Geoff Wilson, in Brisbane on 26 August 2008 to discuss the community’s opposition to Powerlink’s proposed Eerwah Vale powerline project in the Noosa Hinterland.
PAGE believes this project is at odds with the way in which future [...]
Powerlink project – Stop logging and high voltage powerlines
Zac Rogers
Cooroy
YES, premier Anna Bligh, if you want our votes in the next election you should say “no” to destroying significant flora and fauna habitat. Stop raping our forests for logging, stop imposing antiquated and dangerous high voltage transmission lines, pylons and sub-station through wildlife [...]
The Sunshine Coast council has moved to have its say on the impact of the proposed electricity transmission line through Eerwah Vale.
Sunshine Coast Regional Council supporting community against Powerlink’s project to develop a 275kV transmission line and substation in Eerwah Vale.
Wednesday’s Strategy and Planning Committee discussed a recommendation that council staff prepare a response [...]
Response to Powerlink letter to the editor in Noosa News [12 August 2008]
Once again we have an example of Powerlink attempting to justify large-scale, old world engineering solutions to our current climate change challenges, and in particular to those of energy supply and demand.
It appears to be conveniently blind to any issues in the [...]
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) invited Mr Peter Wellington, Independent State member for Nicklin, to meet landowners affected by Powerlink’s 275,000V transmission line and 50-acre substation proposal. The meeting was held in Eerwah Vale, where the line will cut through the heart of this prime rural, tourist and scenic area of the Sunshine Coast.
PAGE and [...]
As usual, Geoff Cass has produced another letter (Noosa News, August 5) full of inaccuracies, which I feel must be corrected. According to the Australian Coal Association’s own website, “Production employment at Australian black coal mines (both underground open-cut) peaked at 32,559 at the end of June 2006.”
Mike Stasse letter in Noosa News.
Yet, [...]
Klaus Pinker letter in Noosa News.
No matter how convincingly we citizens argue against the Traveston Dam that swamps first-rate fertile land with an evaporating shallow lake, and no matter how we protest against high-voltage power lines massively over-designed for actual demand, we are bound to lose these battles.
Our state government will not abandon [...]
