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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]