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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 [...]

As usual, Geoff Cass has produced another letter (Noosa News, August 5) full of inaccuracies, which I feel must be corrected. According to the Australian Coal Association’s own website, “Production employment at Australian black coal mines (both underground open-cut) peaked at 32,559 at the end of June 2006.”

Mike Stasse letter in Noosa News.

Yet, [...]

Klaus Pinker letter in Noosa News.

No matter how convincingly we citizens argue against the Traveston Dam that swamps first-rate fertile land with an evaporating shallow lake, and no matter how we protest against high-voltage power lines massively over-designed for actual demand, we are bound to lose these battles.
Our state government will not abandon [...]

Community will monitor logging operations
Community members and loggers met on Tuesday in state forest west of Cooroy to thrash out an armistice to protect sensitive koala habitat and member for Nicklin, Peter Wellington said the deal was a small victory for the community.
But those involved in protecting the remaining koala population believed any logging [...]

Chances are, the great majority of us have never laid eyes on the mysterious creature know as the quoll.
The quoll’s habitat include the Noosa hinterland and the large tracts of land around Eerwah Vale dedicated to conservation, but the area will soon to be home to 45m-high pylons for a new powerline.

Spotted Quoll

Resident of [...]

The member for Nicklin, Peter Wellington, is calling on the minister for mines and energy, Geoff Wilson, to uphold his end of the bargain and meet with Eerwah Vale residents to discuss their concerns about a proposed powerline through the Noosa hinterland area.
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi representative Graham Smith said the minister’s office had told [...]