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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The following article was published in the Noosa News on 24th Sept 2010:
The following Nature Notes, Quolls by Helen Hepburn, was published in the Eumundi Green on 16th Sept 2010:
An amazing thing happened on the outskirts of Eumundi/Cooroy recently with the body of a
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) being reported to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre by a truck
driver. Col Brownhill confirmed that the body was indeed a quoll. [...]
The following ‘From the Treetops’ by Janet Millington, was published in the Eumundi Green 19th August 2010:
Australian communities should be looking with interest at the findings of the Black Saturday
fire inquiry. It seems that in the crisis, those at the top were found lacking, or is it that the larger the
structure or system, the slower [...]
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 Powerlink’s proposal to extend [...]
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 [...]
