Powerlines coming to a suburb near you!
By Save Eumundi Team • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Featured ArticlesThe map below is from the South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program 2008 - 26. It shows the proposed new powerlines and easements that are planned by Powerlink (transmission) and Energex (distribution) in the Northern section of the Sunshine Coast. Click on the image to get the full picture.
PAGE recommends that you investigate with the appropriate Government agencies the status of these proposals and more details over their timing and location. It may also be appropriate and timely to raise these issues with you State Member or responsible Minister. If you don’t know this is happening you won’t be able to do anything about it - with advance warning you can make your voice heard and lobby for more sustainable generation and delivery of energy.
Save Eumundi Team is a group of people who are keen to see our environment protected and insisting that the Queensland State Government and its agencies (like Powerlink) consider viable alternatives rather than the business as usual approach to electricity generation and transmission.
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Despite having owned a property in Verrierdale for several years (150 acreas of natural bushland) we have only recently moved to the area. We noticed today your article in the Noosa News relating to the proposed transmission lines and after reffering to your website, it appears that these lines may go through our property. Is there any way of assertaining a more accurate idea of their proposed route. p.s. Stop population growth and we will not have any of these problems.
This is the same proposition that has been inflicted on the Eerwah Vale and Ridgewood residents - they purchased their land with no encumbrances, no notification of this development in any of the planning documents, and their property title would have been checked by their solicitor that it was free and clear of any easements.
We suggest you contact Energex directly, and the Department of Infrastructure and Planning, and write to The Honourable Paul Lucas MP - Deputy Premier - Minister for Infrastructure and Planning, as well as asking your local MP to find out as much information as they can. Now is a good time to raise it with the State Election being only 2 weeks away.
Also speak to your neighbours and find out if they have any information.
Here are some more references:
South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program
http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/regional-planning/south-east-queensland-infrastructure-plan-and-program-2.html
This document includes the map highlighted on our site - specifically
Site reference: http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/resources/plan/SEQIPP/
Document: seqipp-part-b-energy
Page: 76 - South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program 2008–2026
Map 9 — Powerlink and Energex infrastructure
The South East Queensland Draft Regional Plan
The draft South East Queensland (SEQ) Regional Plan and the draft state planning regulatory provisions are open for submissions from December 2008 to 3 April 2009.
http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/regional-planning/regional-plan-3.html
If you find more information about this, please let us know.
PAGE said it at the very first meeting back in 2007, that this power is not just going to sit in Eumundi doing nothing. Back then we were accused of being scaremongers by the CEO of Powerlink - check out his outrageous letter from Feb last year (http://www.saveeumundi.org/category/the-jardine-correspondence).
So here we are a year on and all our predictions have been proven right - how much more of this is to come and how many more people like Darren will there be wondering when the State Government is going to come knocking on their door, saying we want a slice of your property and lifestyle?
Ironically the SEQ Regional Plan was ostensibly instigated by the Beattie Government to stop urban sprawl and to protect the scenic landscape between the existing urban centers by designating it “regional landscape” because as, Professor Peter Spearritt pointed out in a series of articles in the Courier Mail, Brisbane has a dearth of protected public open space when compared to Sydney.
This designation of Regional Landscape was further enhanced by Implementation Guideline No. 8 Identifying and protecting scenic amenity values.
The SEQ Regional Infrastructure Plan appears to undermine these aims of its sister document. The infrastructure is shoved artlessly into the Regional Landscape and has a direct negative impact on the visual amenity on it.