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Membership now due for year ending Dec 2011

By • Jan 15th, 2011 • Category: Announcements

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP OF ASSOCIATION
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi Inc. (P.A.G.E.) 
           (incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1984)
 
I,………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..              
(full name of applicant)
 
of……………………………………………………………………………….…………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………….(address)
 
 hereby apply to become a member of the above-named incorporated association.  In the event of my admission as a member, I agree to be bound by the rules of the association for the time being in [...]



Tree planting no answer to koala issue

By • Jan 15th, 2011 • Category: News, Print Media

Letter to The Editor,  Noosa Journal 14 Jan 2011.
I SAW Powerlink’s CEO Simon Bartlett’s reactive response in The Journal but I have a response of my own.
I am sure everyone reading his letter would be baffled as to how the cutting down of a mature koala feed tree and habitat can be replaced by a [...]



Lack of study denied

By • Jan 15th, 2011 • Category: News, Print Media

Letter to The Editor, Noosa Journal 17 Dec 2010.
POWERLINK strongly refutes claims by PAGE president Jack Connolly in an article in the Noosa Journal (December 10), that additional assessment work Powerlink is undertaking, before seeking ministerial designation, is an admittance of insufficient environmental studies.
Following the release of the Final EIS for the Woolooga to Eerwah [...]



Minister rejects Wellington’s high voltage claim

By • Dec 8th, 2010 • Category: News, Print Media

The following article was published in the Noosa News Dec 3, 2010, by Peter Gardiner:
THERE was no done deal for the State Government to green light the Woolooga to Cooroy South high voltage powerlines that would cut through the Noosa hinterland, according to the minister weighing up the $100 million electricity upgrade.
A spokesman for Energy [...]



Powerlink gets a culture shock

By • Dec 8th, 2010 • Category: News, Print Media

The following article was published in the Noosa News on Dec 3, 2010, by Peter Gardiner:
The state-owned company wanting to run 275,000-volt cables from Cooroy to Eerwah Vale was last week connected to the power of persuasion – Noosa Biosphere style.
In a face-to-face meeting, Noosa Biosphere board chairman Michael Donovan urged senior Powerlink representatives to [...]



Talks seek powerlines solution

By • Dec 8th, 2010 • Category: News, Print Media

The following article was published in The Noosa Journal on Dec 3, 2010, by Isobel Coleman.
NOOSA Biosphere has gone in to bat for Eerwah Vale residents fighting Powerlink’s proposed highvoltage powerlines.
The government agency wants to install powerlines just metres from homes – a move residents say will destroy a designated wildlife corridor, lower property values [...]



Notice of AGM 20th Dec 2010

By • Dec 8th, 2010 • Category: Announcements, Calendar

[ December 20, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]        Financial members of PAGE are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting.

                When:          Monday, 20th December 2010

                Where:         CWA Hall   Memorial Ave Eumundi

                 Time:           7pm – 9pm 

       Agenda:

Welcome 
Read and confirm minutes from previous A.G.M.
Deal with any correspondence received and addressed to the A.G.M.
President to present the annual report.
President to present the financial report.
President to declare [...]



Submission on SCRC Energy Transition Plan.

By • Nov 15th, 2010 • Category: News

As part of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council’s ‘our place, our future’ community engagement program, the following was submitted regarding the Draft Sunshine Coast Energy Transition Plan 2010-2020, by Graham Smith, PAGE Committee Member, Nov 2010:
Comments on the Energy Transition Plan
General:
Council is to be congratulated on this forward thinking approach to the issues of [...]



Win Win

By • Nov 14th, 2010 • Category: News, Print Media

The letter below was published in the Eumundi Green on 28th Oct 2010.
We are now entering our fourth year since the “Powerlink Project” raised its ugly head and the residents of Ridgewood and Eerwah Vale have had their lives put on hold.
When Powerlink released their C.I.D. earlier this year the residents were given a strict [...]



Residents rally over powerline

By • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: News

The following article details another  SE Qld community’s fight against proposed environmental and social impacts caused by high voltage powerlines.
Published in the Sunshine Coast Daily on 2nd Oct 2010, by Bill Hoffman.
A GROUP fighting construction of a high voltage Energex powerline through the Eudlo Creek valley fear it is part of a process which will [...]