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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.
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.
Traveston Crossing Dam EIS – Stage 1
On 29 November 2006 the Federal Minister for the Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH) decided that the Project constitutes a ‘controlled action’ under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act) due to the likely potential impacts on matters of national environmental significance. The controlling provisions under the EPBC Act are:
Landowners meeting with QWIPL
Today, several landowners in Middle Creek Road, Federal, met with Mr Rod Herd, Project Manager for Queensland Water Infrastructure Pty Ltd. This meeting was called as a result of the Green Folder information that was sent to landholders. Several of us in Middle Creek Road compared the Maps that were fowarded in our green folders. It became evident - even to us mere country folk, that neighboring properties had different lines (red) with each property being either fully resumed or partially resumed. Of note, our property which has two paddocks which are as high or higher than our neighbors, will be totally resumed - according to the maps. Our fellow neighbour, whose house is situated at approximately the same height or lower than our front paddocks, is able to keep her house and a portion of the land, only the creek area will be resumed.
