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Letter from Dr Gerard Joyce that appeared in the Eumundi Green
I say this for two reasons; one to get your attention and two because it is true. You may choose not to read this or if you read it you may choose to forget it. Unfortunately, that will not make it go away. The doom [...]

The following article appeared in the Noosa Journal this week.

Richmond Birdwing Butterfly captured on flim

The following article appeared in the Eumundi Green, 15 January 2009.
Article appeared in Eumundi Green

A large player in the energy industry presented the Powerlines Action Group Eumundi with its vision for a future devoid of large transmission lines at the group’s last meeting on Saturday.
PAGE coordinator Graham Smith said Sanctuary Energy had a plan to provide power for the region based on demand management.
Mr Smith said Minister for Mines [...]

Energy minister Geoff Wilson has asked Powerlink to explain why it is seeking court costs from a Cooroy resident who unsuccessfully challenged their right to enter his property.
During parliament in Brisbane yesterday, Nicklin MP Peter Wellington accused the state government-owned corporation of using “bully boy tactics” to intimidate landowners involved in the Woolooga [...]

Premier Anna Bligh’s brave new world may already have been dismissed as pure spin by the Opposition and some commentators.
The detail of how she will achieve the targets she set out on Monday as part of her Q2 vision statement, and the detail of the targets themselves, will be the test of that judgement.
Most [...]

Peter Wellington’s full speech in parliament of Powerlink’s “bully boy tactics”
PART 1 – Powerlink (9 September 2008)
Mr WELLINGTON (Nicklin—Ind) (10.15 pm): Powerlink, a Queensland government owned corporation, is investigating building a new high-voltage power line from Woolooga to a new substation site west of Eumundi on the Sunshine Coast. As a result of the investigation [...]

Powerlink project – Stop logging and high voltage powerlines

Zac Rogers
Cooroy

YES, premier Anna Bligh, if you want our votes in the next election you should say “no” to destroying significant flora and fauna habitat. Stop raping our forests for logging, stop imposing antiquated and dangerous high voltage transmission lines, pylons and sub-station through wildlife [...]

The Sunshine Coast council has moved to have its say on the impact of the proposed electricity transmission line through Eerwah Vale.

Sunshine Coast Regional Council supporting community against Powerlink’s project to develop a 275kV transmission line and substation in Eerwah Vale.

Wednesday’s Strategy and Planning Committee discussed a recommendation that council staff prepare a response [...]

Response to Powerlink letter to the editor in Noosa News [12 August 2008]
Once again we have an example of Powerlink attempting to justify large-scale, old world engineering solutions to our current climate change challenges, and in particular to those of energy supply and demand.
It appears to be conveniently blind to any issues in the [...]