Archive for August, 2011

High voltage plan ‘waste of money’.

By • Aug 19th, 2011 • Category: News, Print Media

This article was published in The Noosa Journal 19 August 2011, by Isobel Coleman:
Project axed: Jack Connolly with Peter Wellington and concerned locals at the site of the proposed powerlines at Eerwah Vale.
 
STATE-OWNED agency Powerlink this week refuted claims it has wasted millions of dollars on ‘‘another Traveston Dam’’.
The company has pulled out of Eerwah [...]



Power flow changes force rethink

By • Aug 10th, 2011 • Category: News, Print Media

This article appeared in the Noosa News, 9th Aug 2011:
The expected upgrade of the high voltage transmission network supplying the Sunshine Coast and Gympie has been delayed for at least five years a Powerlink spokeswoman said.
She said a temporary change in power flows across the Queensland electricity network had caused the delays and scrapping of [...]



Power giant walks away

By • Aug 10th, 2011 • Category: News, Print Media

The article below appeared in the Noosa News 9th August 2011, written by Peter Gardiner:
EERWAH Vale’s Jack Connolly and his Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) team reckon they know how David felt after bringing Goliath crashing back down to earth.
From where the residents of this Noosa hinterland Land For Wildlife stronghold have been bunkered down [...]



Powerline is off, for now.

By • Aug 10th, 2011 • Category: News, Print Media

The following was written by Bill Hoffman, for the Sunshine Coast Daily, 6th August 2011:
THE final nail has been driven into the planned Woolooga to Eerwah Vale high transmission line, with residents receiving confirmation from Powerlink that the project had been terminated.
The advice came in the form of a clarifying letter, and follows notification last [...]