Bundaberg community to meet AGL Action Rescue Team
13 May 2009
AGL Energy Ltd (AGL), Australia’s largest integrated renewable energy company, will host the Bundaberg launch of the AGL Action Rescue Helicopter service on May 18, celebrating a new partnership between AGL and the Sunshine Coast Helicopter Rescue Service.
The special community event at the Hinkler Central Shopping Centre will give members of the public the opportunity to view the AGL Action Rescue Helicopters up close.
AGL Retail Sales and Marketing General Manager David Hamilton, said the event at the Hinkler Central Shopping Centre reflected the spirit of the new partnership.
“We are celebrating the past and the future by acknowledging the long history of the service and its new beginnings as AGL Action Rescue,” Mr Hamilton said.
“Our sponsorship has secured the ongoing operations of the rescue service which undertakes over 900 critical rescue, medical and search missions throughout south east Queensland each year.”
The helicopters have recently received a face lift after AGL became the new naming sponsor on 1 April. The helicopters now sport a striking new AGL blue and orange livery and carry the name “AGL Action Rescue”.
AGL Action Rescue Chairman, Don Moffatt, believed the local community would quickly connect the new livery and name ‘AGL Action Rescue’ with the timely, safe and reliable Helicopter Service.
“We conduct over 900 missions every year including rescues and life saving patient transfers to hospitals primarily throughout the Queensland region,” Mr Moffatt said.
“By July the fleet will include three Kawasaki BK117 twin engine helicopters capable of flying from Bundaberg to Brisbane in just 75 minutes.”
AGL Action Rescue will continue to service Queensland communities primarily from Brisbane north to Miriam Vale and west through the Wide Bay and Burnett regions, with some tasks extending to Northern NSW and west to Miles and Goondiwindi.
The free public event will be held at the Hinkler Central Shopping Centre topside carpark, 16 Maryborough Street from 9:00am to 11:00am on Monday May 18.
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Further enquires:
Giselle Pethard, AGL Publicity Manager
Direct: + 61 3 8633 6115
Mobile: + 61 (0) 414 299 658
e-mail: gpethard@agl.com.au
Andrew Scannell, AGL Head of Media
Direct: + 61 3 8633 6167
Mobile: + 61 (0) 407 290 658
e-mail: ascannell@agl.com.au
Colin Brown - AGL Action Rescue
Direct: 07 5458 8740
Mobile: 07 0400 819 855
e-mail: colin.brown@actionrescue.com.au
About AGL Action Rescue
AGL Action Rescue is owned and operated by The Sunshine Coast Helicopter Rescue Service. It is a non-profit organisation, which undertakes vital rescue, medical and search missions throughout south east Queensland. The service is staffed by volunteers, emergency doctors, nurses and paramedics, who supplement the service's full-time staff. Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the service is involved in over 900 rescue or patient transfers in any one year.
About AGL
AGL is Australia’s largest integrated renewable energy company and is taking action toward creating a sustainable energy future for our investors, communities and customers. Drawing on over 170 years of experience, AGL operates retail and merchant energy businesses, power generation assets and an upstream gas portfolio. AGL has Australia's largest retail energy and dual fuel customer base. AGL has a diverse power generation portfolio including base, peaking and intermediate generation plants, spread across traditional thermal generation as well as renewable sources including hydro, wind, landfill gas and biomass. AGL is Australia's largest private owner and operator of renewable energy assets and is looking to further expand this position by exploring a suite of low emission and renewable energy generation development opportunities.