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News and updates from the Save the Mary Committee and other sources.
Serial Pest in the Valley
It seems the Mary Valley has been plagued by a serial pest this week. A man claiming to be from the DPI has been visiting people’s homes unannounced and uninvited and offering unwelcome comments and suggestions about selling their properties to QWIPL. Some people have been distressed by the man’s behaviour, and had to ask him to leave. He has also been asked to leave the Kandanga Info Centre on at least two occasions for being a nuisance and disturbing the peace.
EIS Submission - participation
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Now is the time to actively participate in producing written submissions commenting on the Environmental Impact Statement produced by the State Government to ‘sell’ the proposed dam at Traveston Crossing to the general public and the federal government. Here are some ways to participate.
Northern Interconnector Pipeline - EIS released
Updated on Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 09:16AM by
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Updated on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 06:49AM by
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Summary of this week’s events * Yesterday (28-6-07) the Federal Department of Environment and Water Resources finished their reconsideration, and stuck by their original decision that the Project is not a controlled action under the EPBC Act. This information has not yet been published on the Federal website, but it has been published today by the Qld Co-ordinator General.
Dam action group conducts independent “residents only” meetings to assess social impacts
DAM opponents will hold their own meetings to uncover the social pain of the shattered Mary Valley community after residents walked out of State Government-run meetings designed to assess the same thing. Save the Mary River Coordinating Group chairman Kevin Ingersole will head up the four meetings to be held in the Mary Valley next month. The meetings would collect raw data on the impact that the proposed dam has had, and is having on the individuals and the social fabric of the affected communities, Mr Ingersole said. And the group would give every member of the public the opportunity to participate in a social impact assessment, not a select few.
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Save the Mary River Co-ordinating Group - Meeting Minutes
Date: 26th March 2007 Location: Kandanga Information Centre
Dambuster's Newsletter No 8
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We believe that the single most likely reason that the dam proposal would not succeed is that the Queensland Government will not be able to demonstrate that it can deal satisfactorily with the environmental damage that the dam would cause. In this case the Federal Government would not approve the project and it could not be built. It is for that reason that we have decided to focus most of our efforts on putting the Queensland Government’s Terms of Reference (TOR) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the microscope and doing what it takes to ensure that our views are heard and that we have an opportunity to argue for changes, inclusions and deletions in these important documents.
Attn: Major General Peter Arnison
Updated on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 09:27AM by
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The following petition is available for signing at the Amamoor, Dagun, Kandanga, Belli, Carter’s Ridge and Cooroy Shops and in Gympie at David Gibson’s Office.
