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ABC Queensland’s Stateline program featured PAGE’s fight against the destruction of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland environment. The video can be found at this link and the transcript is copied below for your information.

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/06/18/2931239.htm
Transcript
Kathy McLeish reports property owners fear for their livelihoods.
JESSICA van VONDEREN: Queensland is grappling with unprecedented growth. And one of [...]

An article recently published by Alan Lander in the Sunshine Coast Daily follows:
BUILDING “old technology” electricity transmission lines and similar infrastructure through people’s properties for the sake of planned growth is insane and unethical, according to Sunshine Coast Council’s planning chair.
Councillor Vivien Griffin said being involved in the current dispute over [...]

An article published by Alan Lander in the Sunshine Coast Daily 13 July 2010 follows:
POWERLINK will “thoroughly assess” a submission for an alternative route for powerlines through Eerwah Vale west of Cooroy.
Residents group Powerline Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) met with Powerlink representatives yesterday to present its case for the lines partly to follow the new [...]

HOW much can a koala bear?
Not much more, says Ray Chambers, who is desperately trying to save the habitat of what is thought to be Caloundra’s last koala.
The male koala has been living on a two-hectare block which backs on to Caloundra Road for about six months.
He has become a favourite with locals, who often [...]

Listen to the recording of Jack Connolly being interviewed by Diet Simon on the EIS and “consultation” on Noosa Community Radio.
From the Noosa Community radio website:
Powerlink the electricity lines builder owned by the bullying Queensland government, has dropped a nasty pre-Christmas present into the laps of the people resisting plans for a 275,000-volt line from [...]

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.

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

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 [...]

The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) is taking the fight to save the nation’s iconic animals overseas after becoming frustrated with lack of action from government leaders here.
The AKF’s CEO Deborah Tabart said last week she would attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month to highlight declining koala habitat and numbers.
She said [...]