Homebush Battery Energy Storage System

This isn’t a green solution – it’s not a solution at all!
Homebush BESS is nothing but a Purveyor of Toxic Poisons - life-threatening, forever chemicals & Bis-FASI PFAS.

This is what we expect from this seriously dangerous Homebush BESS ->

**Disaster at Moss Landing: The Risk of Battery Storage - YouTube - 16/1/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuTaZFQA18E

**Massive Green Battery Plant Catches on Fire Again
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/20/massive-green-battery-plant-catches-on-fire-again-weeks-after-major-toxic-blaze

Battery recycling plant explodes - twice. (What it means for you.) | Auto Expert John Cadogan - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-nzOJ01Fkc

https://localnewsmatters.org/2025/02/13/environmental-tests-reveal-elevated-levels-of-toxic-metals-since-moss-landing-battery-fire/

https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/environmental-tests-reveal-battery-metals-around-20163514.php

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/elevated-levels-heavy-metals-elkhorn-slough-lithium-battery-facility-fire/

**’Forever chemicals’ used in lithium ion batteries threaten environment, research finds | Lithium-ion batteries | The Guardian 14/7/24
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/14/forever-chemicals-lithium-ion-batteries-environment

**Safety of Grid Scale Lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems
“The scale of Li-ion BESS energy storage envisioned at “mega scale” energy farms is unprecedented and requires urgent review. The explosion potential and the lack of engineering standards to prevent thermal runaway may put control of “battery fires” beyond the knowledge, experience and capabilities of local Fire and Rescue Services.
BESS present special hazards to fire-fighters….”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352158070_Safety_of_Grid_Scale_Lithium-ion_Battery_Energy_Storage_Systems

**Grid Scale Batteries & Fire Risk
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/656f411497ae14084ad8d03a/t/66fd2383b56dbc6906390297/1727865736681/Fannon-Batteries.pdf

**NSW Fire & Rescue - SARET Research say:
“There is a general lack of guidance and provisions in building codes, standards, and legislation in relation to safety to address the potential risks from these emerging technologies.
Part of the problem is that we do not yet know enough about their probability of failure, their mechanisms of failure and potential consequences of failure.”

Lithium-ion BESS are unacceptably reliant on unethical supply chains ->

**THE DISTURBING REALITY OF COBALT MINING FOR RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES.
“CLEAN COBALT IS A FICTION – THERE IS NO CLEAN COBALT - IT'S ALL MARKETING!”
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining/harvard-professor-explains-heartwrenching-source-of-electric-vehicle-iphone-batteries/news-story/db881f47c76db89581409c092a740c4c
Joe Rogan exposes sad truth about cobalt used in electric vehicle, iPhone batteries |news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site.
Cobalt is in all iPhones, tablets & crucially EV's - it maximises charge & stability.
Before anyone knew what was happening the Chinese Government & Chinese companies took control of almost all of the big mines in the Congo, with the local population displaced & the Congolese people under duress - digging in subhuman, gut wrenching conditions - using all raw human force - clanking the cobalt out of the ground!
Throughout the whole history of slavery, never has there been more suffering that generated more profit than was linked to more lives of people around the world than what is happening today in the Congo - mining cobalt in appalling, heart wrenching & dangerous conditions.

This diabolical plan is part of the whole Fake Green RenewaBULL Swindle & predatory TransGrid Nightmare - nothing but a TROJAN HORSE for the CCP CONTROLLING ASEAN POWER GRID - GLOBAL ELECTRIFICATION AGENDA - A SABOTAGING NATIONAL SECURITY DISASTER FOR AUSTRALIA.

Why would the present NSW Government cling to such a flawed, anti-Australian, ‘NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap’ that can only be described by the most credible of experts as SHAMBOLIC POLICY MAKING, DANGEROUS TO GRID OPERATION & TOTALLY MAD - orchestrated by the now delusional Climate Change Authority Chair, assisted by his previous delusional bureaucrat who soon began setting Australia’s Electricity Rules for the NON- independent AEMC Regulator, as well as his delusional Energy Policy Director who has now snared a position on the NEM Expert Panel.
Well, well, well, you really have to wonder how this Fake Green Vested Interest, Parasitic Swamp continues to get away with such clear conflicts of interest, jobs for the boys & outrageous rip-off of the public & our children’s future as these shysters WRECK AUSTRALIA WITH THEIR ECOCIDAL, ENERGY POVERTY TRANSITION TO EXTINCTION & TREACHEROUSLY SELL US ALL OUT TO THE CCP!

**Rogue Communication Devices Found in Chinese Inverters
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/

**Beautifully Hackable - Irina Slav on Energy - 12/8/24
https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/beautifully-hackable?utm_campaign=email-post&utm_source=substack

**U.S Blacklists Chinese Battery Giant
“These batteries are used in electric vehicles here in Australia,” Mr Danby said.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/us-military-is-concerned-america-blacklists-chinese-battery-giant-over-military-links/video/765e12fec5e3b837a5e606e40371a7f9

**Australia’s Climate Ambitions have a Modern Slavery Problem - ASPI
Editors' picks for 2024: 'Australia’s climate ambitions have a modern slavery problem: examining the origins of our big batteries'
aspistrategist.org.au

Homebush BESS is part of an imploding RenewaBULL Disaster as SYNCHRONOUS INERTIA - - ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO STABILISE THE GRID - is only provided effortlessly & affordably by FAR SUPERIOR, AUSTRALIAN 24/7 COAL POWER that WORKS ON DEMAND ->
"With sufficient synchronous inertia in place, as used to be the case before the advent of “renewables”, then the impact of large-scale system disturbances, such as a generator outage or the collapse of a transmission line, is absorbed, to the extent that the grid operator is given valuable time to deal with such events.

Take away the all-important synchronous inertia, by, for example, allowing over 60% of the power to come from non-synchronous generators, such as solar or wind generators, then that grid has no means to delay the impact of any form of large-scale disturbance.

In that circumstance, the grid operator has mere seconds at most to deal with disturbances. As already stated, we know that this level of renewables penetration was the case at the time of the recent failure in Spain.

The importance of the presence of synchronous inertia to grid operational stability has long been known to electrical engineers and its use is a routine part of grid control.

Comments then, from some quarters, about some presumed lack of transmission infrastructure to solar generation as being the likely cause of the blackouts in Spain can therefore be seen to be entirely spurious. On a grid lacking sufficient synchronous inertia, ANY system disturbance  is going to be a candidate to cause system collapse." Paul Miskelly - 3/5/25

**AEMO CEO Must Be Sacked For Failing To Ensure Affordable, Secure And Reliable Energy Supply - 15th Dec 2023
https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/aemo-ceo-must-be-sacked-for-failing-to-ensure-affordable-secure-and-reliable-energy-supply

NSW cannot possibly afford to continue to destroy Australia’s economic prosperity & productivity - with such fraudulent RenewaBULL plans that continue to DEFY:->
•Every Aspect of the NEL Objective
•All Principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development
•Australian Drinking Water 💦 Guidelines
•COMMONWEALTH PFAS BAN
PFAS (PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS) from 1 July 2025.
•Stockholm Convention
•The WHO
•Modern Slavery Condition

**NATIONAL ELECTRICITY LAW OBJECTIVE
‘The objective of the National Electricity Law is to promote efficient investment in, & efficient operation and use of, electricity services for the long term interests of consumers with respect to:-
(a) price, quality, safety, reliability and security of supply of electricity; 
and
(b) the reliability, safety and security of the national electricity system; 
and 
(c) the achievement of targets set by a participating jurisdiction 
(i) for reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions; or 
(ii)that are likely to contribute to reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.’

AEMO, AER, AEMC, Energy Ministers, Networks, Generators & everyone in 'authority', place primacy on emissions target rather than the other requirements of the NEL. 
The emissions requirement was only added to the NEL in Sep 2023, and the NSW Emissions Reduction Act 2023 was only passed in Nov 23 (other states were similarly tardy to legislate any targets),  - so on what basis did any Gov act prior to that to impose all this on us?   Yet they all did, and still emphasise emissions over other objectives.   NEL is made in the SA Parliament, and in the 2nd reading, the Minister there also reiterated that ALL OBJECTIVES ARE EQUAL.

**The Four Principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) are:
                •     The Precautionary Principle: When there is a threat of serious environmental damage, action should be taken to prevent it, even if there is not full scientific certainty. 

       • Intergenerational Equity: The current generation should take care of the environment so that future generations can benefit from it. 

• Conservation of Biological Diversity: The diversity of plants and animals should be preserved. 

•  Improved Valuation, Pricing, and Incentive Mechanisms: The costs of pollution and waste should be paid by those who cause them.

🛑STOP THE RENEWABULL SWINDLE FACTORIES!!

This Homebush BESS plan completely lacks independent oversight.
No reputable, independent, Electrical Engineering Expert would approve such an incapable and disingenuous plan.

The assessment of safety, economic justification, and fire suppression is largely self-regulated by Ausgrid and its contractors.

Where is the independent technical audit and risk modeling?

Toxic plumes released during lithium fires caused by BESS like this horrible plan - contain cancer-causing fluorine gases and metals.
THERE IS NO SAFE LEVEL OF EXPOSURE!

Nearby businesses, employees, residents and travellers on the road network will all be exposed to unsafe levels during even minor incidents.

I object to this dangerous, FIRE Hazardous plan with irreversible, toxic consequences.

The irreversible, forever chemical footprint of this BESS—fire risk, toxic metals, Bis-FASI PFAS —will far outlast its meager 10-year service life.

Ausgrid is ripping off electricity consumers, generating no power, gambling with poisoning the public and causing permanent environmental damage - just for profit.

Cease and Desist Homebush BESS
200MW/400MWh, Applicant: Ausgrid Operator Partnership Immediately. All of it.
Who are Ausgrid? Multinational. Hmmm.
Clean Up Homebush Bay Drive is the message is it, is it, is it? Filthy is it. Hmmm. You dirty filthy people as nsw.gov.au and gov.au.
You filthy people poison our Waterways over and over again and get away with it Don't you. We can't. But you can, hey. Hmmm...what do the locals think about Lithium Ion batteries right near their region.
I wonder what area on the coast Homebush Bay pipes enter? Bondi? Manly? Further out? Filthy filthy fifthly nsw.gov.au you are.
Stop BESS Now, Immediately Now.
In Your Very Own Backyards You Host these toxic Infrastructures, hey you in nsw.gov.au, Enabling toxic Infrastructures Unnecessarily all over NSW note note note.
Are all of you Aware ALL Australians have to pay for this Scam making a few very wealthy whilst the Australian People pay a High price for electricity which undermines Australia 's economy, at risk, yes, yes, at risk, and why ?
Who are gov.au?
That's a Question.
How dare gov.au waste Australia.
How dare nsw.gov.au waste Australia.
How dare gov.au waste energy. Should be a crime.
How dare nsw.gov.au waste energy. Should be a crime.
How dare gov.au poison Waterways.
How dare nsw.gov.au poison Waterways, and how do they get away with it if Australians can't do the same thing, because its illegal to poison Waterways yes, illegal, yes, yes, yes.
How dare gov.au give away our money as subsidies to Multinationals for No reason but a Scam named Net Zero causing harm and Loss worldwide but profiting multinationals absolutely.
How dare nsw.gov.au enable outrageous methods of energy storage as BESS, toxic to environment , correct, not needed in Australia with its abundance of Coal which is Sold Offshore note by the Australian Government suggesting we need to be Net Zero by the ever shifting target dates. What a Scam. A Scam. A Scam needing Investigation Immediately.
Why are Australians paying escalating power prices if the cheapest form of energy production is supposedly RE transition.
What do the locals think ?
BESS are Toxic Infrastructures.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/06/erin-brockovich-lawsuit-moss-landing-power-plant-fire/
What do the locals think ? What do you think ? Don't Care? Don't? We do.
We Care a Lot about Our Environment you as nsw.gov.au Harm and Cause Loss To Every Single Day over 4 decades back to 6 decades ago yet blame what - climate change, what, what, what.
You have No idea what you're doing to Our Nation, Ours, Australians Ours, and I Need you as nsw.gov.au under investigation I do. Hypocrits is one reason. Poisoning Environment is another. How Do you get away with it?
How Do you get away with it, eh, which includes Asian environments you don't give a damn about, do you.
Shame on you yes.
What are you?
That's a Question.
What do you think you're doing? Do you ever ask? No? Well, we suffer.
You will be fully responsible and fully accountable for what you're doing , nsw.gov.au.
That means All Ministers also.
That means all nsw.gov.au planners , ignorant sadly.
I don't know how you get away with it, nsw.gov.au, and Do, how? How?
https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/06/erin-brockovich-lawsuit-moss-landing-power-plant-fire/
How? How do you Get away with it, nsw.gov.au? Why don't you Care for your Fellow Australians? Why don't you? Why don't you? Who Are you ? We don't want you controlling Our Futures and All On Country Lands Waterways and Communities Australian and World's Futures.
You are despicable, nsw.gov.au.
How do you ever get away with it? We don't want you in control of Our Futures you see. You just Don't Care you see. You simply Don't Care. Don't Care gov.au Cease and Desist Now. If you do Care Cease and Desist BESS in NSW and Australia Immediately Immediately Immediately Now.

It is completely inappropriate that there is NO Emergency Response capacity near this Homebush BESS site.
Strathfield’s emergency infrastructure is not equipped for multi-day chemical fires.
A BESS fire would require hazmat-trained crews and evacuation logistics that do not currently exist.

Why is the Government continually failing in their DUTY of CARE to the people of NSW - to recognise the life-threatening Public Health & Safety Disasters that ALL THEIR TOXIC, RUIN-A-BULL JUNK plans are - including this EXTREMELY FIRE HAZARDOUS HOMEBUSH BESS BOMB?

Are the Government really that stupid or are they only prioritising their money making mates or do they have very bad intentions to deliberately harm us - the people?

It’s VERY clear that this plan is nothing whatsoever to do with protecting nature or caring for country, nor about reliable affordable, efficient or secure power - so something else is driving this very dodgy and very wrong illogical madness.

It’s well past time that a Royal Commission finds out as HOMEBUSH BESS IS DEFINITELY NOT IN OUR BEST INTERESTS OF FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

This project is in opposition with the community of Kurnell and should not be going ahead. The environmental risk this causes is significant, along with the negative impact the proposal will have on the house prices in the area, causing young families to struggle even more in this already difficult financial climate. We oppose this completely and there has been no real consultation with Indigenous Elders or the community either.

What independent body will monitor ongoing safety and environmental impact once the BESS is operational?

Are there safer, more sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion battery storage that have been considered?

Has there been any consultation with Indigenous groups about the cultural impact of this installation?

Can residents expect any compensation or protections if the BESS causes damage to their homes or health?

If this project is so beneficial, why is there little effort to educate the public about it?
Why are these project 3 year in the planning before the public know?

How will the project address concerns of local schools worried about safety for children?
Have all local school in a 5 Kilometre radius been notfied of the proposed project?
Have the residents been notfied they will be living beside a health hazard?

What measures are in place to prevent unauthorised access or sabotage of this critical infrastructure?
Will the be an accessible a Defibrillator in the event of a break in and electrocution?

How much energy will be lost in the process of storing and releasing electricity from this BESS?
Where is the truth telling to support the expectations of this project.

Will this battery installation increase traffic and emissions from construction and maintenance vehicles in the area?

Is the local council more involved in the decision-making process for such a high-risk facility?

Has there been an independent risk assessment that includes worst-case scenarios like earthquakes or floods?

Can you guarantee the supply chain for these batteries doesn’t involve child labor or other human rights abuses?

Why isn’t there a community advisory panel involved in decisions about this installation?
Why are communities always the last to know?