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| Latest: Today is 10 March 2009 The new development application (200813657) was approved by the planning authority ACTPLA CPR Inc will hold a meeting to discuss and decide further action on Thursday 12 March at 7:30pm at the Scout Hall, Fadden Pines - click to view map of location here If you intend to come to the meeting, please click here and let us know More website updates will be made later tonight/early tomorrow to bring us all up to date |
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A consortium led by ActewAGL is seeking to build data storage warehouses supported by a polluting 45MW (MegaWatt) fossil-fuel gas-fired power station (comprising 3 jet turbines) to run all the time) near to the residential areas of Southern Canberra in the Tuggeranong Valley, Canberra The power station will impact the environment and affect the health of thousands of Canberrans The project appears to be more about profits than it is about benefit to the people of Canberra. Capital Works cost is estimated at $87 million. The claim is that this is a $1 billion ($1,000 million) project. Lack of transparency and accountability - the public has been mislead, misinformed and has not been consulted with respect to the latest DA 200813657. CPR launches "Leave Labor Blank" campaign In an effort to create a more evenly distributed balance of power in the Legislative Assembly, CPR Inc has produced 3 flyers & a trailer, calling for the electorate to "Leave Labor Blank" Download flyer (Adobe PDF, A4, black & white, double-sided, 1.2Mb) Make your vote count on October 18 How many jobs will be created by the data centre or the new power station? Data centres do not need many people to run them. Power Stations are all automated. The maximum number of jobs during construction could be 100-150 and at the meeting on Monday 28 April, the CB Richard Ellis spokesman, Tony Adams, admitted employment would be minimal with an estimate of about 5 - 50 people at the most. The hundreds of car parking spaces set aside in the plan, are apparently for, again according to Carston Larson the ActewAGL project manager “if there is a disaster”. He was, we believe, referring to a disaster off site and presumably he would then expect hundreds of people to flood into the data centre to protect their data ruined from off site. We find this difficult to believe as other data centres do not hold that many car parking spaces and we do not see the purpose of concreting and maintaining a car park of this considerable size for the rare chance that people will need to access the data centre all at the same time. We believe the car parking spaces may be allocated now and will be used later to expand the Power Station size and increase the profit for ActewAGL. - The vast majority of this $1 billion construction could be given to an out of state construction company (big enough to handle it). |
Library of key documents Letters from CPR Inc To Chief Minister re draft EIS urgency - 08 Dec 08 To MLAs re alternative site - 07 Dec 08 To Liberals & Greens re when moving? - 04 Dec 08 To Chief Minister re representation - 01 Dec 08 To Chief Minister re people - 27 Nov 08 To Minister for Planning re extension - 24 Nov 08 To Minister for Planning re EIS - 24 Nov 08 To MLAs re draft EIS - 23 Nov 08 To MLAs re compensation claims - 21 Nov 08 To Zed Seselja re support - 19 Nov 08 To Greens & Liberals re moving - 14 Nov 08 To MLAs re historical timeline - 13 Nov 08 Media releases from CPR Inc Stanhope manipulates planning - 10 Dec 08 Response to alternative site - 07 Dec 08 Re Task Force's alternate site findings - 04 Dec 08 Statement re draft EIS release - 18 Nov 08 Re transferable EIS - 14 Nov 08 Re timeline letter to MLAs - 13 Nov 08 Re-focus media from Greens hysteria - 29 Oct 08 Power Station election issue - 15 Sep 08 Data Centres illegal on Broadacre - 01 Sep 08 Everything pollutes, just add more - 17 Jul 08 Health Forum and NO2 pollution map - 14 Jul 08 Submissions from CPR Inc CPR submission to GHD draft EIS Review of the EPBC Act Health Impact Assessment Steering Group Help us & donate now with PayPal Become a member of CPR Inc You can download our membership form and join CPR Inc for $30, inclusive of first year's membership. All proceeds directly assist CPR Inc in its campaign to have the power station/data centre relocated away from residential areas and not to be developed on the horse paddocks in Tuggeranong.
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Disclaimer: This web site was created to aid Canberra residents in gaining information regarding the ACTEWAGL proposed development of a major utility gas-fired power station and data centre. The contents of this site have been provided by other concerned residents who do not have the resources, either time nor money, that ACTEWAGL have to commission investigations, surveys and reports. These residents do have some skills and expertise in the areas they have provided details. They may make mistakes in their figures, especially those relating to high technology. They did not do this deliberately to mislead and any corrections are welcomed. We ask that you use this web site as a source of information and research details for yourself. The creators of this web site do not support all the views contained on this web site and again stress this site is provided as a resource for Canberrans to gain information and support research into this $2 billion project. It will affect you - use your voice.
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