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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.

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 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 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 [...]

The following article was published in the Noosa News on 24th Sept 2010:

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 [...]

An article recently published by Alan Lander in the Sunshine Coast Daily follows:
BUILDING “old technology” electricity transmission lines and similar infrastructure through people’s properties for the sake of planned growth is insane and unethical, according to Sunshine Coast Council’s planning chair.
Councillor Vivien Griffin said being involved in the current dispute over Powerlink’s proposal to extend [...]

An article published by Alan Lander in the Sunshine Coast Daily 13 July 2010 follows:
POWERLINK will “thoroughly assess” a submission for an alternative route for powerlines through Eerwah Vale west of Cooroy.
Residents group Powerline Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) met with Powerlink representatives yesterday to present its case for the lines partly to follow the new [...]

By now, you might have received in the post a CID notice from Powerlink. It appears that only directly affected properties might receive the actual “CID Notice”, but for the rest of the residents, or registered “parties of interest” or registered stakeholders, you/they should have received Powerlink’s newsletter 8 May 2010.
The PAGE May Newsletter (pdf [...]