Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) held its sixth community meeting on 26 July to update the community on Powerlink’s proposed 275,000V powerline and substation site in Eerwah Vale.
PAGE community meeting over Powerlink’s proposed Woolooga to South Cooroy 275kV transmission project.
Cr Vivien Griffin spoke about the Sunshine Coast Regional Council’s attitude to the project [...]
Powerlink Project – Jeanette M letter in Eumundi Green
Jeanette M
Eumundi
In reference to ‘Sold Out?’ in your letters page of Issue 49, it appears that this letter was purely a conjecture based upon assumptions.
Firstly, “the no power line people” are very aware that infrastructure is important for a growing community, whether we like it [...]
Powerlink Project – Klaus Pinker letter in Noosa Journal
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 humanely we protest against high voltage power lines that are massively over-designed for actual demand, we are bound to lose these [...]
Powerlink Project – People power to push changes
The winds of change could quite literally be blowing in favour of a hinterland community group opposed to the erection of high-voltage transmission lines through Eerwah Vale.
About 40 members of the Powerlines Action Group Eumundi met in Eumundi last Saturday for the sixth time in the body’s [...]
Mines and Energy Minister, Geoff Wilson, will meet this month with residents concerned about plans by Powerlink to install a 275,000-volt power transmission line across their properties.
Mr Wilson says he is keeping his undertaking to Local MP Peter Wellington that he would meet with members of PAGE (Powerlines Action Group Eumundi) after they [...]
Community will monitor logging operations
Community members and loggers met on Tuesday in state forest west of Cooroy to thrash out an armistice to protect sensitive koala habitat and member for Nicklin, Peter Wellington said the deal was a small victory for the community.
But those involved in protecting the remaining koala population believed any logging [...]
