Comet Park Battery Energy Storage System

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Contamination and Waste Management are issues that are being swept under the carpet. It’s time government stop putting renewable energy targets ahead of the nation’s public health and food security. Please refer to attachment for details:

The comet battery development is not fit for purpose in this or any other setting.
1. It is a development that can potentially pollute or irrigation system that will in turn contaminate a large area of our irrigation area causing farmers to fail and land and water to be contaminated. If the installation burns and polluted the atmosphere as well, the installation could result in a catastrophic cluster of health conditions in the Yanco area. R.E Hunter’s Hill NSW in the 1980’s with the cancer cluster caused by byproducts from a factory used in the road base. That took about 10year’s to become apparent that it had contaminated people living in the area. I bet they said “We didn’t know that would happen “ It did. At least the people who approve this will have been aware of the consequences for potential contamination of our community food and water.

I am a resident of the Narrandera Shire but live in the Euroley area which borders onto Yanco. I am aware of the location of the proposed Comet Park BESS. It is notably close to the main canal which is only a few hundred metres from the proposed site. The canal runs from Narrandera through Yanco, onto Leeton and Griffith. It is the main canal for irrigation for farmers from Yanco onwards to Griffith.
There would a risk attached to the nearby Comet Park BESS- possible contamination of the main water supply and a risk to the nearby community of Yanco through fire risk and toxicity of the BESS components.
The location of the BESS is also within a short distance to nearby citrus farms, grain storage and silos and the Murrumbidgee Valley National Park. The BESS includes other infrastructure including further high voltage lines.
The associated risks of fire, from thermal runaway, toxic gas emissions which pose a danger to nearby residents and communities and first responders. Off gassing of failed or failing batteries, electric shock and arc flash from high voltage transmission lines which generate heat and further risk of fire are important to acknowledge. The Comet Park is in close proximity to high risk resources in the community. Any danger to water and the environment shouldn't be dismissed. These risks could lead to significant financial losses in agriculture and to the local community.

I object that the assessment does not address the full lifecycle risks associated with lithium-ion battery materials, chemical breakdown products and poisonous releases during fire, failure or disposal.

These risks require essential, reputable, independent research and transparent assessment rather than reliance solely on modelling, assumptions and propaganda.

This is a Fake Green UNclean, UNregulated, UNreliable, UNethical, UNeconomical, INsecure Scam designed to make Australia weak and China ever stronger. Nothing but a TROJAN HORSE FOR COMMUNISM!

Where serious or potentially irreversible harm cannot be ruled out, the precautionary principle requires decision-makers to demand stronger evidence before planning such ecocidal, China CONtrolling rubbish!

We fiercely object to this filthy BESS scam as we are extremely alarmed about lethal gas plumes, toxic hydrofluoric acid, accidental releases, firewater runoff, damaged equipment and long-term degradation and leakage that will create contamination pathways affecting soil, waterways, surrounding land uses and the public.

The assessment of this toxic disaster must require prior independent risk research and only after that proof of public health and safety as well as demonstrating robust prevention, monitoring and remediation measures as contamination pathways have not even been addressed.

Bis-FASI PFAS, Hydrofluoric Acid and Hydrogen Fluoride Gas Plumes, etc. require diligent and independent risk research prior to any of these life-threatening Lithium-ion BESS being planned let alone assessed.

To date there has been a catastrophic failure by the NSW Government to address the facts.
Instead, they’re relying on garbage-in, garbage-out, fake green modelling that ignores electrical engineering facts, scientific rigour, integrity and ethics.

As various types of PFAS are now BANNED in Australia due to this high-risk, unhealthy, forever chemical group - further assurance is required that imported components, operation and disposal will not poison the public and create unacceptable environmental liabilities.

There is a complete failure to consider toxic contamination of the land and water during operational life of this hazardous BESS as well as to deal with the long- term toxic waste liabilities.

Insufficient certainty has been provided regarding end-of-life management of lithium-ion batteries and associated equipment.

Future generations should never inherit unresolved waste streams, contamination risks or expensive remediation obligations and Wagga Wagga is certainly dead against that disgusting lithium-ion battery recycling facility the Authoritarian Government and Rotten Wagga Council are trying to force in their midst.

I Object on the following grounds:
• It is destructive to native flora and fauna and harmful to the public;
• Construction will leave a legacy of land destruction that is unlikely to be rectified by the builder;
• It is an abomination on the natural landscape;
• It is part of a system that costs billions, does not work reliably and attempts to solve a problem that does not exist, in other words useless and irresponsible use of public funds;
• All such infrastructures should be built at developer’s expense, NOT on public funds. We are told wind and solar are the cheapest, well prove it, remove all subsidises - do not build this system on public funds;
• The TOTAL cost has not been verified by independent experts;
• There is NO verified scientific basis for reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere so this project is a total waste of public money, along with all other such projects.  There is in fact reliable verifiable scientific proof that CO2 is beneficial to plant life and by extension to human life on earth.

We object to this non-sensical, unclean, unethical and totally irresponsible proposal as it fails to protect Intergenerational Equity and adhere to the Precautionary Principle.

Current decisions must protect environmental quality for future generations.
Long-term, irreversible toxic impacts, liabilities and irreversible changes to land use have not been factually considered.

I object to the toxic battery energy storage system in our area because these batteries contain forever chemicals and if caught on fire with high temperatures in our area the fire burns for days and all the pollutants will cover homes and farmland for miles with toxic filth filling our air and earth for generations to come. Causing future cancer and disease.

This project is wholly owned by a South Korean multinational. Where will they be when the project needs to be decommissioned? What landfill will be used for BESS components? What funds is this Foreign owned multinational receiving from Australian Taxpayers to build this hazardous and toxic BESS? This project is not in the Public Interest.

The Agricultural and regional character assassination this filthy BESS would cause is disgusting!
Nobody wants predatory parasites dumping their POISONOUS RUIN-A-BULL JUNK everywhere!

The community must not be expected to absorb such horrendous landscape changes and contamination disasters like this when it’s all pain and no gain - with no public benefit.

This obnoxious BESS plan totally lacks reputable, independent verification of the proponent’s claims.

We object that reliance on consultant reports commissioned by the proponent does not provide adequate community confidence where significant risks have not been diligently researched at all.

Independent Expert Peer Review must be required for critical safety, environmental and emergency management matters.

Foreign owned, foreign controlled, taxpayer funded and never able to be fully decommissioned or components fully recycled.
Risks include thermal runaway - resulting a fire that cannot be extinguished. During a fire toxic gas will engulf the community. Local Firefighters are volunteers: not equipped, trained or paid to deal with this hazard. Stop destroying the environment!

This project is only for the benefit of the foreign owned developer. Stop spending our money building toxic waste in our environment that enables the developer to game the electricity market at OUR expense.

This project will lead to water contamination, persistent noise pollution, loss of agricultural land, strain volunteer emergency services, increase fire risk, thermal runaway, and increase toxic land fill.

The whole RenewaBULL SWINDLE including this Ticking Time Bomb BESS ignores Grid Security and National Energy Resilience.

We object that there has been no due diligence and no thorough examination of the plethora of life threatening risks by the authoritarian government.

Reliance on incapable, insecure, China reliant large-scale battery infrastructure introduces extreme system vulnerabilities.

Critical Electricity infrastructure requires immediate assessment by ASIO of National Security risks and independent expert analysis of multiple failure scenarios, very real threats to human life, bad actor replacement requirements and long-term resilience.

When will the NSW Government prioritise the electricity consumer and the environment over foreign developers? Is the plan to rubber stamp the development now and then manage the harms later? Or not at all?

There will be no direct financial relief for locals or indeed any electricity consumer in NSW. This project enables the developer to access taxpayer funded subsidies and then game the electricity market for profit. Being a foreign company the profit does not get taxed in Australia. There is zero benefit to Australians, let alone the community, for this project.

This project will be lucky to last 10 years, yet the toxic legacy will remain in perpetuity. Unrecyclable components, toxic runoff to soil and waterways, toxic air in the event of a thermal runaway event.