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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 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 [...]

You really have to wonder what sort of mandate Labor believes it has in Queensland when the travel of its recently re-elected premier is conducted in such a clandestine manner.
Post-poll, Anna Bligh made much of the wake-up call she received and how she realised she was there to govern for all Queenslanders whether they voted [...]

Local residents yesterday (22 June) had the undivided attention and support of local councillors, when they shone the spotlight on the single biggest challenge facing Sunshine Coast Regional Council’s new vision to become Australia’s most sustainable region.
Invited to present at council’s General Meeting, members of the Powerlines Action Group of Eumundi (PAGE) told councillors of [...]

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has flagged regulatory reforms, more action by state-owned energy utilities and a push to prepare ‘clean energy plans’ for major residential and commercial developments as part of a plan to generate 2,635MW from clean energy by 2020.
In 2008, renewable energy accounted for about 6% (745MW) of Queensland’s total installed generation capacity, [...]

Covering Letter
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) is a community group formed to ensure that the wider community interests are served when considering how to provide energy for sustainable development on the Sunshine Coast.
With this in mind, PAGE wish to work constructively with the Queensland Government and its agencies to deal with the two key issues [...]

Without decisive action, global warming in the 21st century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to a leading member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“Go Solar” on Swanbank B smoke stack (with thanks Greenpeace/Shakespeare)
IPCC scientist Chris Field of Stanford University and [...]