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3 July 2009: Palerang Council accepts BMC's proposed hall hire fees

At an extraordinary meeting held on 25 June, Palerang Council has accepted the Burra Management Committee's proposed hall hire fees for the 2009-2010 financial year. In other news, the BMC has submitted a funding grant application to the NSW Government for hall improvements [More information, including the new hall hire fees]

3 July 2009: ACTEW Pipeline EIS lodged for Adequacy review

ACTEW has lodged the Environmental Assessment in NSW for Adequacy review and anticipates that the the Public Exhibition of the EIS/EA will begin around 20 August 2009. Community groups and individuals will have 4 weeks to comment on the EIS from the date it is lodged. [Full story]

21 June 2009: Digital upgrade referred to Minister

Eden-Monaro MP, Mike Kelly, has referred BURRA's request for federal funding to upgrade the Mt Urila television repeater to a digital signal to the Federal Minister for Communications for consideration. [Full story]

4 June 2009: Digital upgrade funding sought

BURRA has written to Federal MP Mike Kelly seeking funding to upgrade the analog television transmitter in Burra to a digital signal. [Full story]

1 June 2009: Lake FM hits the Burra airwaves

Local wireless broadband provider, Yless4u in conjunction with Bywong resident Alex Colquitt has commissioned a low power FM radio transmitter operating on frequency 88mhz. The intended coverage area is the Burra Valley, with similar coverage to the local Burra TV translators. [Full story]

1 June 2009: Facelift for the Burra tennis courts

Work to refurbish the surface of the tennis courts at Burra Park has commenced. The courts will be unavailable for approximately four weeks until earthworks are completed and the court markings replaced. [Full story]

25 May 2009: Minister rejects boundary adjustment proposal

Local residents will continue to pay for a mistake made by the NSW Local Government Minister in early 2004 when local government boundaries were redrawn, leaving the Burra, Urila and parts of Royalla as an outpost. Despite overwhelming support from the community affected, the current Minister for Local Government, Barbara Perry, has rejected BURRA's proposal for the area to be relocated within Queanbeyan City Council. [Full story]

21 May 2009: ACT Government identifies "preferred" sites for solar farm

The former Ingledene Forest west of Williamsdale has been earmarked by the ACT Government as one of two potential sites for a large-scale solar farm development. The Ingledene site, which was burnt out during the 2003 Canberra bushfires, is a 100 hectare site between the Naas Road and the Murrumbidgee river. [Full story]

6 May 2009: "Lucky" Williamsdale scores the trifecta

A sequence of recent announcements by ACTEW and the ACT Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope, has lifted the lid on plans to turn rural land at Williamsdale into an industrial landscape with a gas-fired power station, an airport and a solar farm all planned for land adjoining NSW. [Full story]