Bullawah Wind Farm

Why are we allowing international organisations to control our power supply? Why are we giving such organisations millions of our money in subsidies? Why are we destroying our farming land to house such infrastructure? Why are we allowing our environment to suffer as a result? Why are we destroying the nature and wildlife so such infrastructure can be built?

Fancy trying to destroy the environment in order to save it. Where is the logic in this? There is no logic to these projects and as such, I object.

There is too much research coming out now outlining the dangers this infrastructure has on the health and safety of not only humans, but our animals and environment.
Our government must put a stop to this before it is too late.

I object to the destruction these projects place on regional communities, local economy, the environment, and farming land.

Stop destroying primary farming land for unreliable and intermittent forms of energy.
The destruction to farming land, the environment and rural communities by renewable infrastructure will be absolutely disastrous and irreversible.
Stop this nonsense now before it is too late.

Covering all the arable land in turbine and there associated structure is just lunacy. This land with never be fit again the grow food. the 1200tonnes of cement at the base of every one will never be removed. What plan does the company have in place to return the land to once they found it.

I object to the Bullawah Wind Factory, food producing agricultural land should not be destroyed for unreliable energy production. Its against the 2015 Paris Agreement- 'in a manner that does not threaten food production'

This wind farm, Bullawah, has unacceptable ecological impacts, as it is located right next door to Oolambeyan National Park, and has impacts on many native species including the Plains Wanderer which is CRITICALLY ENDANGERED. The impact area is huge - 5800ha with a project area of 30 000 hectares. No feasibility studies in terms of reductions of emissions of this project have been conducted and certainly there has been no consideration of emissions due to fragmentation & destruction of ecosystems and native vegetation, which can be considerable even when grassland is involved due to the large area of disturbance. Such carbon accounting should also include the emissions of required infrastructure, storage, and overbuild necessary, leading to reduction of effective capacity factor and therefore increased emissions. There has not been an honest case presented for reduction of emissions including all sources of emissions for this wind farm. As stated above there are also unacceptable impacts on native wildlife including migratory species such as white-throated needle tails, as well as raptors & insectivorous bats. This wind farm needs to be rejected on ecological & climate criteria.

This proposal will put a massive strain on the community. There are many people to frighten to speak up . They worry what the future hold for them. With all this construction all around them. The turbines will be massive and many. They are concerned about infrasound and contamination.

I am very concerned about these turbines causing fire in an already prone fire area. If a grass fire was ti start it will burn for kilometres. What levies will the company pay to the fire service. How many people will the company provide to fight the fire started by the turbines. Who will be responsible for damages.

The turbine blade suffer from leading edge erosion. The chemical Bisphonal A has been ban in Australia since 2012. I'm concerned about this entering the river systems. What measure will the company put in place to stop this?

Wind turbine developments will never be decommissioned? There's no compulsory Decommissioning Legislation to accomplish that? There's plenty of factual evidence to tell us so-called renewables aren't cheap dollar wise? They run on taxpayer funded subsidies and cannot provide base power due to their inherent intermittent generatoon nature? The heavy metals associated with the wind turbine controls and magnets leach into the earth below each tower? Causing the soil to never to be productive in agriculture ever again?

I disagree with this project. The Bisphenol A is a Neuro toxin. How is the company proposing to stop the spread on land. I'm worried about the children that will be exposed the this chemical.

Landowner Hosts – Caveat Emptor
This is an assembly of information for Landowners who are contemplating entering into agreements to lease their land to the developers of wind projects, solar projects and battery storage projects.
Projects – Modus Operandi
The Applicant Company (Lessee) enters into a leasing agreement with the host/landowner (Lessor) to enable construction of wind turbines, solar panels and/or batteries on the host/landowners property. The Applicant company is beneficially owned by a Holding Company.

Without a Demolition or Rehabilitation Bond there is no incentive for the Applicant company to demolish and remove the wind turbines and/or batteries and rehabilitate the land to its original condition. The present-day cost of demolition of one now larger wind turbines has been estimated by law firm, McCullough and Robertson, to be between $450,000 and $600,000 (Weekly Times – 9 August 2924).

NSW Planning draft wind turbine decommissioning and demolition calculator, in their example, estimates the cost per turbine at $259,493. For the proposed 143 turbine Bullawah Wind Project the total demolition and rehabilitation cost would be $37,107,499! Using the McCullough and Robertson lower per turbine figure of $450,000, for 143 turbines the total demolition and rehabilitation cost would be, $64,350,000. At $600,000 per turbine the cost would be, $85,800,000.

As previously stated, there is no incentive for the Applicant Company to demolish and remove wind turbines, solar panels or batteries. It is plausible that the Applicant Company would pay dividends to the beneficial owner, the Holding Company, from the income generated by the Applicant Company during the operational life of the project such that at the end of operational life of the project, the Applicant Company (Lessee) would not have the financial capability to demolish and remove the 143 wind turbines and would be liquidated, thus leaving the host/landowner (Lessor) with 143 wind turbines on their land and the cost of demolishing and removing them. The Holding Company, not being a party to the Lease Agreement, would have no responsibility for the demolition and removal of the 96 wind turbines.
Decommissioning Calculations based on NSW Planning and Environment Calculator for Wind Projects
Examples:
143 Turbine Wind Energy Decommissioning and Demolition Calculation
143 turbine wind project x $259,493 per turbine (cost as at February 2024) = $37,107,499

I see load of the turbine being built. How are they all going to be connect? What is the strategy for connection. There is many many turbine. The country will be covered in lines like spider webs. I do not agree will this.

Please don't little my world with junk. I don't want forever junk on the land and junk everywhere, left to rot. I saw the news and it was scary to think someone could be hurt.

The plains are the largest 360' flat plan in the northern hemisphere. There are many unique animal and birds that roam the plains. props they will find the night parrot here too. The Swift Parrot is on the endanger list as is The Plains Wander. If the infrasound affect humans. Will this noise affect birds too. Interrupt there ability to call and mate?
In the news recently the blade had pieces flung off on surrounding land.
Will this be possible here too?
Where are the blades made?
Will they come from the same supplier and be dodge too, with a potential to harm?

Submission that the Bullawah Wind Farm be declared a controlled action, be denied a planning permit and NEVER be constructed

1. The Bullawah Wind Farm will slaughter iconic birds and bats, over a 50 km area, 24 hours a day. It will be very detrimental to the local ecology. Particularly decimate protected Wedge Tail Eagles.
An example: (The Australian 10/7/24) According to the EPA, the proponent St Patricks Plains Wind Farm, Tasmania owned by Korea Zinc, estimates the blades will kill on average two eagles a year, or 41 to 81 eagles across the farm’s 30-year lifespan, based on mitigation reducing 58.5 per cent of collisions. It is estimated only 220 Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle breeding pairs remain, and there are fewer than 1,000 birds overall.
Experts warn there is insufficient consideration for the cumulative impact of multiple wind farms and fear Tasmania’s “wind rush” poses a “major threat” to the species’ survival.
THIS EQUALLY APPLIES TO NEW SOUTH WALES.
2. The spreading of thousands of Wind Turbines across rural New South Wales, will end up creating the great danger, of having horrendous bushfires on an Annual basis.

Rural New South Wales is known as one of the most bushfire prone areas on Earth. Scattering tens of thousands of wind turbines (individually known to catch fire occasionally and the older they get the more likely it is to happen) on 250m high towers across the Countryside. This must increase the risk of a fire starting from a Wind Turbine100,000 times. The risk will encompass all rural landholders, country towns and rural cities. Everybody will be in danger and on tenterhooks, every Total Fire Ban Day. The danger of a fire reaching serious proportions, is greatly increased as the Wind Turbines, physical height, (250m), blade diameter and created wind turbulence, stops any arial water bombers operating within 5km to 10km of any Wind Farm. This would mean any fire started by malfunctioning wind turbine, would reach major proportions before any attempt could be made to control it. The loss of life, loss of livestock, wildlife and property has potential to be huge. The presence of the wind turbines will greatly endanger all residents, livestock, wildlife and the property of Rural Australia See wind turbines when they burn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVHzfUWul2Y

3. I believe that the Bullah Wind Farm relies on the Medieval technology of Wind Turbines, powered by a weather fuel the Wind. Are totally inefficient, unreliable and totally uneconomic and should never be considered as being suitable to provide baseload electricity 24/7 to a modern society.

This is because Wind turbines can only produce electricity, when the wind speed is between 12kms/hr and 90kms/hr. As a result, Wind turbines are reported to produce electricity on average for only 30% of their rated capacity or on average for eight hours per day, this leads to random periods of hours, WITHOUT ANY ELECTRICITY BEING PRODUCED, (occasionally in some calm periods, wind turbines produce NO electricity for days at a time. These random calm or gale force periods of zero electricity production, has to be provided to the consumer by a second, standby, backup electricity generator either coal or gas, which makes the cost to the consumer, unnecessarily high.


4. When all the processes that go into the construction of Wind Turbines. A. mining. B. Transport. C. Manufacture. D. Transport. E. Site preparation and construction. E. Operation. F. Dismantling and restoration. G. Transport. Disposal of Waste to landfill.. When all these procedures are taken into account, there is a strong possibility that more so call Green House gases will have been produced, than saved by the intermittent production of the Bullawah Wind Farm.

For all these reasons I believe the Bullawah Wind Farm should not be given a permit and never be constructed.

I object to this proposal due to the harm to our wildlife, heating effects and bird collision.