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The following documents comprise PAGE’s supplementary submission to the draft EIS:

Cover Letter (28kB)
Community Issues – Supplementary Information (80kB)
Supplementary Appendix A – Report for Botanica Land Habitat Survey (448kB)
Supplementary Appendix B – Eerwah Vale Musa Vale Rd – Birds (16kB)
Supplementary Appendix C – Eerwah Vale Musa Vale Road – Plants (40kB)
Supplementary Appendix D – Aboriginal Cultural [...]

Covering Letter
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) is a community group formed to ensure that the wider community interests are served when considering how to provide energy for sustainable development on the Sunshine Coast.
With this in mind, PAGE wish to work constructively with the Queensland Government and its agencies to deal with the two key issues [...]

The following documents comprise PAGE’s submission to the draft EIS, and were submitted to Parsons Brinckerhoff 15 May 2009.
Supplementary papers to this submission will be provided by 29 May.

Cover letter (72kB)

Contents page (36kB)

Letter and Executive Summary (164kB)

Community Issues Matrix – Chapters 2-12 (796kB)

Community Issues Matrix – Chapters 13-22 (696kB)

Community Issues Matrix – Appendices (656kB)

Appendix [...]

Mr WELLINGTON (Nicklin—Ind) (11.58 am): It gives me a great deal of pleasure to thank the Minister for Infrastructure and Planning for agreeing to my request for a further one-month extension so people could make their submissions to the South East Queensland Regional Plan. So the new deadline is 1 May. I thank the minister [...]

Below are links to 3 documents that will help you prepare your submission on the draft EIS (click on links to download).

PAGE presentation (1.9MB) of items to consider in dEIS submission (presented at public meeting Saturday 2 May)
dEIS submission template
Parsons Brinkerhoff’s file on “Making a Submission on the Draft EIS“

Also, if you would like to [...]

Dr Gerard Joyce has put together a screening survey to assess the mental health impacts of the project.
The survey is easy to complete and has been shown to identify levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms.
It is can be ANONYMOUS and is strictly not a diagnostic test.
To take part in Dr Joyce’s study, download the survey [...]

The copy of Parson Brinkerhoff’s refusal to grant an extension to the submission period for the draft EIS follows:
Email of:  9 April 2009
Dear Keith
Thankyou for your e-mail of 2 April requesting an extension to the
Woolooga to Cooroy South Transmission Line and Cooroy South Substation
Project Draft EIS submission period. We acknowledge that this request
has come through [...]

[ February 21, 2009; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ]
Where:            Belli Hall, Eumundi Kenilworth Road
Cost:               Free
Details
PAGE is conducting a workshop to help people respond effectively to the Powerlink draft EIS for their proposed transmission line and substation through Eerwah Vale, that is expected in the next few weeks. The EIS will be a large document, that can be unwieldy, intimidating and complex. The workshop [...]

Powerlink advises the draft EIS will not be released before Christmas.  When it is released the consultation period will be 6 weeks and not the standard 3 weeks.