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Subscriber only Progress is being made on the game-changing Urannah Dam project after comments on the draft terms of reference for an environmental-impact statement closed late last month. The State Government s co-ordinator-general will now finalise this once all public and agency comments have been considered. A spokesman for the office of the co-ordinator-general said the proponent, Bowen River Utilities, would then have 18 months to prepare an environmental impact statement which satisfactorily addressed the terms of reference. Many of the comments received from the public were general project comments rather than suggestions about how the terms of reference might be amended to improve the outcomes of the EIS process, he said.
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Mackay Conservation Group has employed a Sydney-based small business owner to campaign against the Urannah Dam project. Mackay Conservation Group, in a statement, confirmed it had employed Annabel Gorman Deane as its new Urannah Campaign organiser. Annabel s role will be to channel wide community opposition of the project into effective action to protect the habitat of the beautiful Urannah Creek and the rich and diverse life that it supports, including the Irwin s Turtle, it said. Some of the key issues that community members want include evidence-based decision making process and sustainable outcomes for our biologically rich river systems. Ms Deane s LinkedIn profile has her listed as a Sydney-based business owner at Earth Packaging Co.
The conservation status of the platypus has now been recognised as threatened .
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Scientists could find evidence of platypus in northern Victorian rivers by checking water samples for DNA, in a proposed project being developed for Victoria.
A not-for-profit company is hoping to recruit volunteers and raise money to fund the project designed to find out how prevalent the elusive mammal is in our streams.
There have been sporadic reports of the monotremes in the lower Goulburn, but they appear to be more common in the upper reaches.
The project will use the technology that has been useful in finding fragments of COVID-19 in wastewater in urban sewerage plants.
Hummingbird House received more than $6500 from Coles shoppers and team members in Mackay. Stores at Northern Beaches, Parkside Plaza and Caneland Central were praised for their efforts and donations, despite the financial challenges from COVID-19. Parkside Plaza Coles store manager Josh Back said the appeal was an opportunity for his team to raise money for Queensland s only children s hospice. Mackay Regional Council Strategic Planning manager Jaco Ackerman and Mayor Greg Williamson at the Northern Beaches Community Hub site. A library, pool, and essential government services could soon find home in Mackay s fastest growing district as Northern Beaches residents are called on to shape a $25 million development.