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Koalas are under threat of extinction. Powerlink’s highly controversial power-line project through Noosa Biosphere will destroy the last remaining healthy koala habitat and unique nature corridor in Noosa’a hinterland. Destruction of our biodiversity means extinction of our significant and iconic species. There are alternatives. Please watch the video.

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 [...]

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 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 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is a complex and lengthy document. In order to deliver a meaningful, community-centred reflection of impacted residents’ concerns, a substantial amount of time and effort was required, but not provided.

The main requirement of the EIS was to provide an assessment of the environmental (economic, social, cultural and physical) impacts from the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the proposed transmission line (TL) and substation, and to duly consider alternatives to the proposal carried forward. Ultimately this document is to be used to form the basis of a Ministerial designation of land for community infrastructure.

The following is an article published in the Noosa News, 6th April 2010, by Peter Gardiner:
It was not quite a case of bringing the minister to the mountain to see the possible natural loss a Powerlink upgrade would cause to Ridgewood and Eerwah Vale.
But taking Michael Choi, the parliamentary secretary to Natural Resources, Mines and [...]

HOW much can a koala bear?
Not much more, says Ray Chambers, who is desperately trying to save the habitat of what is thought to be Caloundra’s last koala.
The male koala has been living on a two-hectare block which backs on to Caloundra Road for about six months.
He has become a favourite with locals, who often [...]