Bayswater Power Station - Turbine Upgrade

AGL must be required to fit best-practice pollution controls for SO2 and
NOx, this is surprisingly up to debate but should be a given.

The planning commission should also hold a public meeting to ensure
that residents of the valley and stakeholders can hear about the
impacts of this project and provide input from their perspective.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
I object to the proposed upgrade of the Bayswater power station
without mandatory upgrading of best practice pollution controls for
SO2 and NOx.
I believe that the NSW planning commission should hold a public
meeting to ensure that residents of the valley and stakeholders can
hear about the impacts of this project and provide input.

It is completely unacceptable that Bayswater has upgrades that do not
include the latest filtration and air pollution controls. This is
totally unacceptable for all who live in the area.

1) I strongly object to AGL's EIS and the development

2) AGL should be required to fit best practice controls for SO2 and
NOx

3) the planning commission should hold a public meeting to ensure that
residents of the valley and stakeholders can hear about the impacts of
this project and provide input.

Bayswater is the single largest source of fine particle emissions
(PM2.5), oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide in the Hunter Valley.

These pollutants regularly breach health guidelines in the Valley, and
are linked to elevated incidence of asthma, stroke and pre-term
births.

NSW Health found that power station air pollution causes 40 premature
deaths each year in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area.

Best practice technologies reduce toxic emissions of NOx and SO2 by
90% or more.

Both of these technologies (flue gas desulfurisation and selective
catalytic reduction) are obligatory in other countries such as the
USA, the EU, China and India.


I strongly suggest that if AGL want to upgrade their power station,
it's time that they were required to upgrade their pollution controls
and stop dumping their pollution on the residents of NSW.

I wish to lodge an objection to the proposal to upgrade the Bayswater
Power station turbine.
My reasons for this objection follow:
1. The Bayswater upgrade fails to include pollution control for high
levels of sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), nitrous oxides (NO x ) and fine
particle emissions (PM 2.5)
2. Bayswater is the single largest emitter of these pollutants in the
Hunter Region
3. Health guidelines for these pollutants are regularly exceeded in
Hunter
4. The project must be required to install world best practice
pollution controls to improve Hunter air quality
5. Community groups in the Hunter were not consulted or made aware
that this project was on exhibition

Yours faithfully,

Doug Williamson
B.Sc.; Dip.Ed.; M.Env.

NSW Planning Department,
Dear Ms Duncan,

REF: SSI 9234 Bayswater Power Station Turbine and Efficiency Upgrade

The Environment Council of Central Queensland (ECoCeQ) advocates for
the protection of our natural environment including air and climate,
waterways and oceans, land and habitat, and biodiversity.

Our organisation objects to the proposal by AGL to spend $200 million
to upgrade the facility at Bayswater. Carbon emissions from the plant
will further contribute to climate change and the proposal is not
consistent with Australia's commitment at the Paris agreement.

AGL must be required to fit best practice controls for pollutants such
as Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Bayswater is the single
largest contributor to these pollutants in the Hunter Valley, and NSW
health has acknowledged the significant health risks associated with
these toxic inhalants, including preterm births. Best practice
technologies for limiting pollution are obligatory in India, (imagine
that!) European Union, USA, and China. Retro-fitting best practice
technologies to existing infrastructure would be best use of the @200
million that AGL has available, and the NSW Planning Department should
require this.

The NSW Planning commission must arrange a public hearing to enable
residents and other stakeholders to hear of the impacts of the
proposal and have opportunity to provide input.

Sincerely,
Christine Carlisle
President
Environment Council of Central Queensland

I object to the development of the Bayswater Power Station upgrade:
1. AGL is polluting the environment with its emissions full of toxic
and health threatening chemicals and must be required to refit the
plant to prevent escaped noxious emissions from this outdated coal
fired power station.
2. In view of the fact that this upgrade is not widely advertised the
planning commission must hold a public meeting. The local residents
and other interested parties and stakeholders must be given the
opportunity to hear about the impacts of the proposed upgrade.

Please advise receipt of submission as soon as possible.
Many thanks, Jan Davis

As attached

Please see submission attached. Note that NCC requests to provide further
details at a later date.

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