{"id":1406,"date":"2014-08-16T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2014-08-18T22:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T12:15:42","slug":"sos-planning-update-community-planning-groups-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2014\/08\/16\/sos-planning-update-community-planning-groups-august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"SOS Planning Update \u2013 Community Planning Groups, August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are several important events coming up that address the democratic planning and liveability of Melbourne.\u00a0Please let your members and friends know about these coming events:<\/p>\n

* “Power to the People \u00a0\u2013 reclaiming control of electricity in Victoria” –\u00a0Wednesday, Sept 3, 6.30-9pm\u00a0Brunswick Town Hall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>(see flyer\u00a0) Power to the People Flyer-2014-09-03<\/a><\/p>\n

Energy bills out of control.Power companies standing in the way of renewable energy.<\/p>\n

State and Federal Governments doing nothing to lead the climate change or energy debate.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for communities to demand reform of the energy sector and governments to take action\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a\u00a0public forum to learn about how consumers of electricity can reclaim control over their power bills, and more particularly, how the power companies are getting away with massive bill hikes every year. Expert speakers will outline how the current National Energy Rules are exploited for huge power company profits with little protection for the consumer. The myths around renewable energy solutions will be debunked, and the links between electricity supply\/demand and climate change explored.<\/p>\n

* The Great Population Debate –\u00a0between Kelvin Thomson (MP\u00a0for\u00a0Wills) & Robert Doyle (Lord Mayor of Melbourne), Mon. 13\u00a0Oct.\u00a0at\u00a05.30 \u2013 7pm,\u00a0Deakin Edge.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There are several important events coming up that address the democratic planning and liveability of Melbourne.\u00a0Please let your members and friends know about these coming events: * “Power to the People \u00a0\u2013 reclaiming control of electricity in Victoria” –\u00a0Wednesday, Sept 3, 6.30-9pm\u00a0Brunswick Town Hall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (see flyer\u00a0) Power to the People Flyer-2014-09-03 Energy bills out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters","category-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}