Bottle Tree Bulletin Bottle Tree Bulletin - February 2020 | Page 9

APLNG Agreement win for
Wallumbilla and Yuleba
MRC Community Meeting Room, Creek St, Yuleba
(Behind Post Office)
1. A young
Noonga
fellow
receiving a
gift from
Santa 2. One
of Noonga’s
next
generation of
farmers
getting a gift
3. Drought
Angel’s
volunteers at
Noonga
Christmas
Party 4.
Noonga
Community
Christmas
Party.
Cr David Schefe will attending the meeting to explain the
APLNG & MRC agreement with regards to Reedy Creek
and the implications for the Yuleba community.
The Yuleba Development Group Inc has been accomplishing notable
achievements locally since 2008. We listen to the voice of the
community and put that voice into action. Come along and be a part
of this dynamic group whose focus is to sustain and grow our town
and community.
For further information or a copy of the minutes from the
previous meetings, please contact:
Paul Masson on 0437 975 002 or Karan Hibbs on 0428 452 582
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Angels travelled to Noonga and bought treats
local residents. This will include Community
Project funding for projects in Wallumbilla and for everyone. Forty farming families who
attended were surprised to receive grocery
Yuleba.
hampers, care packages and Christmas gifts.
Origin APLNG’s General Manager Spring
Council has signed a landmark agreement
Gully, Denison, & Pipelines Asset Dave Atkin An “Aussie” Santa bought gifts for the children
with APLNG that will see a number of fly-in fly- said the agreement builds a strong,
as well as our next generation young farmers.
out workers transitioned to live locally,
It was a wonderful night of neighbourly
collaborative partnership between Australia
providing a welcomed boost to the Maranoa’s Pacific LNG and Maranoa Regional Council
conversation and Christmas cheer after such
population and economy by an estimated $10 and includes new community investment
a tough year of drought.
million each year.
funding of $2.5 million over the next two
A landmark agreement has been signed
3.
years.
between APLNG and Council that will see a
number of fly-in-fly-out workers transitioned to
Noonga Notes
living locally, providing a welcomed boost to
The
Yuleba
Community is invited to the
the Maranoa’s population and economy by an
Yuleba
Development
Group Meeting on 11
estimated $10 million each year.
February to hear more about this agreement.
This agreement is the first of its kind for the
(See Meeting Notice this edition).
region. While allowing the continued operation
Noonga will remember and treasure the 2019
of APLNG’s camps at Reedy Creek and
Community Christmas Tree for sometime.
Bungaroo, the agreement will see:
Four dedicated volunteers from Drought
• APLNG transition an agreed number of
production worker positions from 1.
2.
fly-in fly-out to residential.
• Provide incentives to
4.
encourage workers to become
residents.
• Encouragement of more short-
term stays with local
accommodation providers,
through agreed internal guidance
documents.
• Flexible working arrangements
to encourage a residential
lifestyle.
• Workers able to commute daily
to work if they live within 45
minutes of their principle place of
work (this will
include
residents of
Wallumbilla
and Yuleba,
if they work
at the Reedy
Creek
facility).
• A financial
contribution
from APLNG
The next General Meeting of the Yuleba Development
until the
Group will be held:
agreed
Tuesday
number of
th
February
2020
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workers are
at 6 pm
converted to