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Tully Coastguard Petition

PITT’S POLITICAL STUNT ON TULLY COAST GUARD RADIO

    Labor’s Acting Energy Minister, Curtis Pitt, has attempted to score political points by announcing a partnership agreement between Ergon Energy and the Tully Coast Guard about its radio facility on Mount Mackay – but there is just one problem – no one has told the Tully Coast Guard. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said […]

Tully Coastguard Petition

LABOR LEAVES CASSOWARY COAST BOATIES IN LIMBO

  The Palaszczuk Government has left the safety of boaties in the Cassowary Coast Region in limbo by failing to determine the future of the Tully Coast Guard radio installation on Mount Mackay. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said in responding to a petition signed by more than 1,100 North Queenslanders, Energy Minister Mark Bailey had […]

Tully Coastguard Petition

TULLY COAST GUARD RADIO PETITION TABLED IN PARLIAMENT

 Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has tabled a petition in the Queensland Parliament on behalf of 1,110 petitioners about the outrageous situation facing the Tully Coast Guard, regarding its radio installation, currently co-located with Ergon Energy infrastructure on Mount Mackay, east of Tully. Mr Cripps wrote to Energy Minister, Mark Bailey, on 20 December 2016, expressing […]

Tully Coastguard Petition

ERGON THREATENS CASSOWARY COAST MARINE SAFETY

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has accused Queensland Government owned power giant, Ergon Energy, of undermining the marine safety of all public and private vessels across the Cassowary Coast Region, by compromising the Tully Coastguard’s communications system. Mr Cripps said since 2001, the Tully Coastguard has had a radio installation co-located with Ergon Energy infrastructure on […]