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The following letter to the editor was published in the Eumundi Green issue 117, 31 Mar 2011:
Peter Wellington recently announced the Energy Sector Monitoring Unit, a department of the Energy Minister’s office, will be conducting an assessment of the highway route. This follows MP Wellington’s remarks that “there was sufficient capacity in the national (Bruce) highway corridor for [...]

The following article appeared in the Eumundi Green, issue 117, 31 Mar 2011:
Jack Connolly, President, Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE)
PAGE has sought support from Peter Wellington to have the detailed and fully
costed alternative proposal re location of powerlines independently
assessed.
We acknowledge that Minister Robertson has the role of an independent
decision maker under the Sustainable Planning Act; [...]

The following article appeared in the Sunshine Coast Daily, 17 March 2011:
POWERLINE Action Group Eumundi’s proposal to route a proposed new Powerlink line down an easement on the Bruce Highway would be thoroughly investigated, Member for Nicklin Peter Wellington said.
Mr Wellington met representatives from the independent Energy Sector Monitoring Unit and the State Government’s Department [...]

The following article was published in The Noosa Journal, by Michelle French, on 4th March 2011:
 
MEMBER for Nicklin Peter Wellington is headed for a showdown in Parliament next week over Powerlink’s proposed high voltage powerlines through Eerwah Vale, Belli Park and Ridgewood.
 Mr Wellington has requested a meeting in Parliament with the general manager of the [...]

The following article appeared in the My Property Preview issue 130, on 25 Feb 2011.
A proposed solar parks will revolutionise power on the Sunshine Coast. Local business Energy Parks Australia has lodged a development application, which if approved will mean the Sunshine Coast can boast one of Australia’s largest solar parks.

The project outlines the transformation [...]

The following article appeared in the Noosa News 25th Feb 2011, by Peter Gardiner.
Eerwah Vale residents James & Janet Luttrell and Jack & Margaret Connolly.
A NOOSA hinterland lobby group fighting high voltage transmissions lines through their area have helped engineer a power play that could go all the way to Premier Anna Bligh.
The Powerlines Action [...]

This article, written by Isobel Coleman, appeared in the Noosa Journal on 28th Jan 2011.
An Eerwah Vale doctor fighting proposed high voltage powerlines across his land this week slammed government agency Powerlink for again ignoring koala conservation in the area. The war of words comes just weeks after residents praised Powerlink for revisiting the issue. Members [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]