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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 [...]

The following documents comprise PAGE’s submission to the draft EIS, and were submitted to Parsons Brinckerhoff 15 May 2009.
Supplementary papers to this submission will be provided by 29 May.

Cover letter (72kB)

Contents page (36kB)

Letter and Executive Summary (164kB)

Community Issues Matrix – Chapters 2-12 (796kB)

Community Issues Matrix – Chapters 13-22 (696kB)

Community Issues Matrix – Appendices (656kB)

Appendix [...]

[ March 27, 2009; 12:00 pm; ] We have heard (indirectly) that Powerlink have advised that the official release date for the draft EIS is 27th March, and submissions will close 13th May.

There is still time to request a hard copy if necessary and you will need to contact Powerlink directly.

The Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (P.A.G.E.) strategy to Powerlink’s long term threat to the Sunshine Coast is to engage with the State Government and its agencies to provide a community endorsed plan for more sustainable, environmentally and visually acceptable alternatives.
Next PAGE Meeting: 4pm, Saturday 26 July 2008 at the CWA Hall, Memorial Drive in Eumundi
We [...]

The following was the reply received on behalf of Geoff Wilson, Minster for Mines and Energy, nearly 5 months after PAGE’s letter to the minister.
5 months later – this is the reply received from the Minister of Mines and Energy

Below is PAGE’s response to Gordon Jardine’s (Powerlink CEO) letter to the Minster of Mines and Energy. We felt it was important to share this information with you.
Our response took some considerable time and effort. PAGE’s letter is necessarily long, as we felt compelled to put back into context some of the misleading statements made [...]

Below is a scanned copy of the letter that Gordon Jardine, CEO of Powerlink, sent the Minister of Mines and Energy, Geoff Wilson attempting to disregard anything that PAGE said.
The letter concludes:
“Whilst Powerlink will provide (and in many cases, re-provide) the correct information in its newsletters on this project, I would suggest that the correspondence [...]