State Significant Development

Assessment

Griffith Battery Energy Storage System

Griffith City

Current Status: More Information Required

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  1. SEARs
  2. Prepare EIS
  3. Exhibition
  4. Collate Submissions
  5. Response to Submissions
  6. Assessment
  7. Recommendation
  8. Determination
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Development of a 100 MW / 1000 MWh battery storage system and associated infrastructure including grid connection.

Attachments & Resources

Notice of Exhibition (1)

Early Consultation (4)

Request for SEARs (1)

SEARs (3)

EIS (17)

Response to Submissions (11)

Agency Advice (33)

Additional Information (1)

Submissions

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Showing 21 - 40 of 74 submissions
Save Our Surroundings Lancefield
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Lancefield , Victoria
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Unacceptable, Unethical Modern Slavery is built into China’s BESS.
ASPI documents that large-scale batteries rely on forced labour, coercive mining, and human-rights abuses, undermining ethical claims.
ASPI Strategist, Editors’ Picks 2024
Save Our Surroundings Callide
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Goovigen , Queensland
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This horrible plan is all a lie! It’s fake green moral posturing masking unethical sourcing and poisonous consequences.

The plan claims environmental virtue while exporting human suffering and pollution to authoritarian regimes and wrecking Australia.
Name Withheld
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Redbank Plains , Queensland
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This BESS plan cannot be approved as it is a huge National Security Risk to Australia!
Any system capable of remote updates can also be remotely disabled or manipulated, including safety systems during conflict or coercion.
Save Our Surroundings Redbank Plains
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Redbank Plains , Queensland
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We completely object and do not consent to this evil, poisonous and treacherous plan that’s designed to rip off Australian people, contaminate our land/water /biodiversity/the public and enable our greatest enemy to control and harm us.
Name Withheld
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HAY , New South Wales
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We totally object to all this insecure, unethical, toxic, RUIN-A-BULL RUBBISH like this BESS, as it’s environmentally destructive, won’t work most of the time, is costing us $$$Billions of wasted public money and making Australia a weak vassal state for China.
STOP THIS NOW!
Name Withheld
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LEETON , New South Wales
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Destructive BESS plans like this pathetically incapable, purveyor of poison wrongly relies on heavy taxpayer subsidies - financially unsustainable without them - shifting risk from the fake green carpetbaggers to the public and locking in long-term fiscal exposure and economic suicide for Australia.
Name Withheld
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Swan Hill , Victoria
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The parasitic crooks pedalling and approving Intermittent, weather dependent Solar/Wind generation with bankruptingly costly BESS are completely failing the Australian people & irresponsibly destroying our country - which is blessed with far superior, natural energy resources that they are cruelly depriving us of.

Who is the enabler of this torturous prioritisation of CCP control of our electricity system and the deliberate sacrificing of our once energy independent, secure country?
Name Withheld
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Coolah , New South Wales
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This project is NOT in the public interest. This project will only benefit Macquarie Bank and their foreign joint venture partner. This project will ensure electricity consumers have unreliable, unaffordable electricity. Shipping containers filled with lithium ion batteries is not clean or green, it is unrecyclable toxic waste that will contribute to fire risk in this community and environmental destruction.
Name Withheld
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Horsham , Victoria
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The use of polyurethane insulation and panel materials in battery enclosures raises serious concerns, as polyurethane is combustible and releases highly toxic gases when exposed to fire.
Name Withheld
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Barham , New South Wales
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I object to this proposal because lithium-ion battery fires are known to enter thermal runaway, producing fires that are extremely difficult to extinguish and can continue or reignite long after initial suppression. How will this be addressed?
Name Withheld
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Cunninyeuk , New South Wales
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This hazardous, toxic contaminating BESS is nothing but a Ticking-Time-Bomb that will result in life-threatening, poisonous fallout from battery fires which threatens Public Health and Safety, seriously risks irreversible contamination of farmland, fisheries, and water catchments, with long-term consequences for generations to come.
Name Withheld
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CUNNINYEUK , New South Wales
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Australia’s manufacturing capacity has been sacrificed by the unreliable, unaffordable, weather dependent RUIN-A-BULL EXPERIMENT!

The collapse of Australia’s only battery manufacturer seemed designed to fail - leaving our nation fully dependent on imports - predominately from our most hostile enemy - wrecking our sovereignty and security.
Australian Financial Review, 2025
“Crying Shame: Inside the Demise of Australia’s Only Battery Maker”

THIS BESS IS OUR ENEMY!
Name Withheld
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Torque , Victoria
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Firefighting responses to battery energy storage fires often require large volumes of water, which can become contaminated with PFAS and other hazardous substances. Who will dispose of this waste?
Name Withheld
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BARHAM , New South Wales
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PFAS contamination from firefighting foams is persistent in the environment and poses a long-term risk to soil, groundwater, and agricultural land surrounding the site.
Name Withheld
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Swan Hill , Victoria
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Where’s the credible defence against BESS sabotage?
Government approvals of unethical, insecure CCP produced components shows no public threat modelling, no independent cyber testing, and no sovereign control requirements for BESS assets.
Name Withheld
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Moulamein , New South Wales
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Lithium-ion battery fires are documented to burn at very high temperatures, making conventional firefighting methods largely ineffective and placing emergency responders at risk.
Name Withheld
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Romsay , Victoria
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Battery fires produce toxic smoke plumes that may include fluorinated compounds, carbon monoxide, and fine particulates, which present a health risk to nearby residents.
Name Withheld
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Swan Hill , Victoria
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Repetitive, catastrophic BESS Thermal Runaway FIRES demonstrate systematic failure.
Multiple fires at the same facilities prove these events are not rare accidents, but predictable outcomes of flawed technology and weak regulation.
“Massive Green Battery Plant Catches on Fire Again”
Watts Up With That, 20 Feb 2025
Name Withheld
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Romsey , Victoria
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The long-term environmental consequences of PFAS entering soil or groundwater are significant, as these chemicals do not break down naturally and are extremely difficult to remediate.
Name Withheld
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Moulamein , New South Wales
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Lithium-ion battery fires are documented to burn at very high temperatures, making conventional firefighting methods largely ineffective and placing emergency responders at risk.

Project Details

Application Number
SSD-85372970
Assessment Type
State Significant Development
Development Type
Electricity supply
Local Government Areas
Griffith City

Contact Planner
Name
James Bellamy
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