Archive for December, 2009

New Hope For Residents in Battle To Stop Powerlines

By • Dec 31st, 2009 • Category: Main Article, News, Viable Alternatives

The Coast council has given people power a boost with it’s call this week for expressions of interest for alternatives to the State Government’s controversial Eerwah Vale power lines plan.
Read the article below by Isobel Coleman that appeared in the Noosa Journal on 31 December 2009.


Habitat is Threatened

By • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: News, Updates

Elmes claims state government lacks the will to save koalas.
Read more in the attached Noosa News article that appeared on 29 December 2009.
Koala Habitat is Threatened – Glen Elmes


Inquiry call on dam lies

By • Dec 15th, 2009 • Category: Main Article, News

QUEENSLAND Government lies over the Traveston Crossing dam proposal should be subject to an independent public inquiry, according to Gympie Federal MP Warren Truss.

As Mary Valley residents celebrated the end of the dam proposal, Mr Truss said the state government had wasted up to $865 million on an unapproved project backed by significantly flawed environmental [...]