Bango Wind Farm

I strongly dissaprove of the costruction of the Bango Windfarm, NSW.

My concerns are as follows:

* Disturbance of large vehicles, on the small country roads, safety and noice an issue.

* Destruction of the natural habitat for wild life and birds.

* Movement of sheep and cattle on roads is essential ,and will be disrupted due to vehicles/trucks on roads.

* Large amount of bushland cleared resulting in big amounts of erosion in the area and surrounds.

* Fire control would not be as affective.

* There are 200 residents living in and around the village of Rye Park ,which I feel will affect there lifestyle/health which will be so heavely impacted from this construction.

* If the Bango Windfarm is constructed I beleive Rye Park as it is and always has been ,will ultimately be destroyed both physically and in spirit of a country village.

*The constructions of the Bango Windfarm is a disaster waiting to happen.

Dear Sir/Madam
I am in full support of the Bango Wind Farm and declare that along with my wife Sharon that we are involved landholders in the proposed project. I am a fifth generation farmer producing wool, meat and grain on our family farm.
The benefits of Renewable Energy of any form must be considered over fossil fuel use. Clean Energy is a must for our country, environment and future.
The turbines will allow us as Host landholders to invest in our farm with a flow on effect to the community, farmers are an aging part of the population, therefore it will be great to think the next generation will be able to take the farm over in a healthy state. Our own children have left the family farm for employment and their return is exciting for my family but it is also essential for the wider community that we have farmers. Employment during construction as well as operation will also boost opportunities in our community that have never existed before.
Our local community from farmers to businesses will benefit greatly from a wind farm and the Community Enhancement Fund will provide funds for essential local projects including schools, hospitals and Retirement services. Many of these services find it harder and harder to find these essential funds in order to continue.
Many think we are only in this for the money, however Climate Change is real and if nothing is done a rise of a few degrees in temperature could destroy much much more than a few turbines on our hills.
We have worked closely with the developers CWP and they have been assured us that the best practises will be put in place during construction and afterwards during operation.
This will insure that our farm and in particular the landscape will be protected and the interruption will be kept to a minimum so we are able to continue running our farm, producing top quality wool meat and grain.
Please consider my submission when determining your decision.
Regards
Thomas and Sharon McGrath

please see attached submission

I have concerns regarding the proposed wind turbines. One of these concerns relates to the cumulative effect of the trafficking of 2 different windfarm components and supporting vehicles along local roads.
We live 7km from the village of Rye Park along the Dalton Road. As such we will be affected by the multitude of vehicles travelling the Dalton Road if the building of the proposed Rye Park Wind turbines occurs. This will make travelling along the Dalton road, either to the north to Boorowa or south to Yass or Gunning, hazardous and access unreliable. If this is combined with approval of the `Bango' Windfarm, which will similarly affect the Wargeila and Rye Park Roads, described by the proponents as "temporary, short-term full road closures" (p236) producing "some delays to local traffic" (p 228) travel for business or appointments will be unpredictable and no alternate roads will be available to avoid this. Considering that the most optimistic prediction for building these structures is 2 years, this is a considerable amount of time for this situation to continue.
The damage to all these roads by the heavy, oversized vehicles will also make any trip dangerous.
The attached pdf file shows the current state of one of the roads (Tangmangaroo) following the recent rain. This will be travelled by the Bango loads. How then will it stand up to the over-size vehicles that will be using it during the building of this project? The Bango proponents state that "any damage resulting from construction traffic, except that resulting from normal wear and tear, would be repaired at the Proponent's cost" (p239). As the surface of the Rye Park Road is already very poor and much of the Wargeila Road is dirt and the table below is the proponent's estimate of the size and number of vehicles travelling the roads during the building phase, who will have the say in what is `normal wear and tear'? The EA estimates the components required to be transported including "the heaviest loads are expected to be the nacelles weighing up to around 125 tonnes" (page 233) requiring "122 over-size vehicles" to deliver these to site. "The longest loads will be for the blades, which will have trailer lengths up to 72 m long" (page 233) with "366 over-size vehicles" required. For the "towers 610 low-loader (over-mass) vehicles + 122 semi-trailer trucks". "The collector substation transformers would have a typical weight of up to 90 tonnes" needing "5 over-size (mass) vehicle + 10 semi-trailers of support equipment".

Total Estimated Vehicles
vpd - vehicles per day (i.e. two way trips) vph - vehicles per hour (peak hour)
moderate or average and a conservative or high estimate (in brackets)
Lachlan Valley Way Tangmangaroo
Road Rye Park Rd /
Hopefield Lane Yass Valley Way / Wargeila Road Rye Park-Dalton Road
vpd 96 (160) 34 (60) 88 (140) 96 (158) 60 (112)
vph 37 (59) 19 (28) 37 (59) 37 (59) 33 (53)


They state that "as a last resort, where other options are not feasible or practicable, consideration may be given to the replacement of the bridge / culvert with a structurally suitable permanent upgrade to support the projected component loads" (p240). Given the standard of most of the road surfaces this should surely be a minimum requirement before consent is given. Driving the roads used by Goldwind in constructing the Gullen Range turbines clearly demonstrated the deplorable state of the roads left by windfarm proponents.

I reserve the right to submit further submissions.

Objection to Bango Wind Farm
Details Attachment 1

wind farm submission uploaded as attachment

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this proposal. Please find my submission attached.

The VI Assessment submitted for the Bango wind farm:
* Is dramatically inconsistent with all published research on the height-distance-visibility relationship and thus massively underestimates visibility magnitude for affected residences and other viewpoints.
* Relies on photomontages to advance the developer's case while ignoring the consistent research evidence of the way that tends to under-represent visual impact.
* Substitutes the consultants' values for those of affected residents despite the research showing that to be completely inappropriate.
The document is consequently wholly unsuitable for the Department to evaluate actual visual impact from the Bango wind farm and needs to be rejected.

Please find attached our submission in response to the Bango Wind Power Development - Application number SSD 6686, along with a report from Australian Wildlife Services
-Charlie Arnott
Chair, Boorowa District Landscape Guardians

I am writing in support of the proposed wind farm.
For many years it has been reported that our reliance on fossil fuels is too great and a newer way of generating energy needs to be in place.
It is time for a shift in our reliance. I believe the shift to renewable energy is the answer for ours and future generations.
Coal is a finite resource, it's better we think about the next step now, rather than in the future, when we will inevitably be forced to turn to other means.
Here we have free energy we are able to harvest with negligible impact to the environment.