Homebush Battery Energy Storage System

Ausgrid’s Homebush BESS is Environmental Hypocrisy!
How can Ausgrid claim environmental stewardship while deploying toxic-laden lithium BESS with cobalt and nickel mined through slave labour, later burned into our atmosphere through uncontainable fires?

This incapable, filthy, seriously toxic Homebush BESS plan completely ignores the lessons from the Victorian BESS Fire & numerous others elsewhere!

The 2021 Victorian Big Battery Fire burned for 3 days and released toxic smoke across many kilometres.
This is the same technology, same manufacturer, same container design…….

Is our irresponsible Government so captured by the CCP and Vested Interests that they’re determined to keep repeating that catastrophic mistake in the middle of Sydney?

Homebush BESS is a massive hazard with ZERO benefit.

This BESS offers no new electricity generation, no local backup, and no benefits to Australia - only astronomically costly, environmentally disastrous, economically insane, energy insecurity and national insecurity crisis impacts.

This plan merely exploits local land to support grid-wide treachery - while pushing health and safety risks onto nearby communities and burdening us all with exorbitant, unjust electricity costs and a CCP controlling, anti-Australian, ASEAN POWER GRID GLOBAL ELECTRIFICATION AGENDA .

STOP DELIBERATELY WRECKING AUSTRALIA!!

Extremely toxic, Fire hazardous Homebush Lithium-ion BESS is incapable junk with a multitude of detrimental impacts.
This Bis-FASI contaminant does not belong anywhere - let alone in the vicinity of homes, schools, workplaces and major traffic routes.

Thousands of people live, work, drive and attend school near this site.
No lithium-ion battery facility should be placed near urban centres or in rural Australia as Lithium-ion BESS fires are so poisonous to human beings, stock, wildlife, for our soil and water - releasing gases for days that billow over and evacuate entire towns.
That’s not a “low-risk” installation; that’s an alarming Public Health and Safety Disaster and HUGE scale evacuation zone!

Although still unacceptable and inadequate - even the Woke UK has a 15 Km Exclusion Zone!

This battery is all about deliberate price engineering.
It won’t ever lower prices as it’s designed to profit from the artificial scarcity it helps create by hoarding energy until peak pricing hits.

Australian consumers, businesses and industry will suffer greatly and shoulder these unnecessary, unjust, elevated costs for decades - just so the greedy vested interests can make a motzer by ripping us off with their fake green scam.

This short-term Lithium-ion Battery would cause irreversible, long-term damage and never generate any power.

The publicly subsidised Homebush $30+ Million BESS rip-off has a lifespan of just 8–12 years—after which it becomes hazardous e-waste.

The environmental and financial cost of decommissioning, toxic residue cleanup, and replacement is prohibitively costly and unaccounted for in Ausgrid's PR spin.

Homebush BESS plan ensures cyber warfare in urban Sydney.
With hostile foreign entities dominating the BESS supply chain, the risk of embedded sabotage—remote overheating, shutdown, or data extraction—is very real.
This is critical infrastructure likely to be weaponised on our own soil.

It’s totally illogical & foolhardy to plan a big BESS Fire Hazard next to fuel and freight corridors - unless of course this is designed to deliberately harm Australia - which the whole ‘renewable’ CON treacherously appears to be!

This facility sits near major fuel transport corridors, and containerized BESS fires have already burned uncontrollably for days in other jurisdictions.

A flashover event here would cause chaos, shut down the M4, and endanger thousands.

It’s totally unethical & wrong that the RUIN-A-BULL SWINDLE is reliant on hostile supply chains & is complicit in the abuse of little children as young as 6 years old - forced to mine with their bare hands in toxic & torturous conditions under the control of the CCP in the Congo & elsewhere.

How come the Government are so addicted to these unethical practices & why do they disingenuously pretend they are virtuous when filthy Lithium-ion BESS are SO dangerous, hazardous and poisonous?

Building a BESS here would make us complicit in child labour, resource imperialism, and foreign economic coercion.

Homebush BESS is nothing but a $30 Million market manipulation device.
This isn’t clean energy—it’s a glorified arbitrage machine, charging off cheap coal or solar and reselling during artificial peaks.
The public pays higher electricity rates while Ausgrid profits off scarcity that it helps engineer.

Homebush BESS is an inexcusable Public Health gamble!
This BESS would emit deadly fluorinated gases during fires, known to cause irreversible respiratory and neurological damage.
For Ausgrid to site this in a populated, high-traffic region is a reckless assault on public health under the guise of "green infrastructure."

This is an Explosion Hazard in a densely populated zone & an Energy Poverty - National Security Disaster - with NO benefits whatsoever to Australia.
Why are Authorities so desperate to ensure harm to Australians - illogically depriving us of our own FAR SUPERIOR, RELIABLE, AFFORDABLE, SECURE, 24/7 AUSTRALIAN POWER & so keen to ensure our Electricity Grid is CONtaminated with & CONtrolled by the CCP - our most hostile enemy’s FAKE GREEN SWINDLE FACTORIES??

Installing a known fire- and explosion-prone lithium-ion battery system near businesses, homes, and major traffic corridors is grossly negligent.
In the event of thermal runaway, life-threatening toxic smoke could blanket nearby suburbs, while fire suppression is virtually impossible.

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

I would like further details on what happens during Australian summer heat with lithium batteries and fires/ fallout from fires or explosions they may cause. I have seen first hand a tiny lithium battery explosion and it caused toxic smoke, what happens in a mega sized facility such as this.

Also how will you guarantee jobs for locals being affected, what actual percentage of the local community get jobs is it 1 percent or 99 percent etc.

I would also like to know how this well effect during construction time an already bad traffic flow on a3 near m4, some traffic adds hours there.

Batteries in a city are particularly problematic as they are made with PFAS. They have an elevated fire risk. Fires cannot be extinguished with water and will produce a toxic smoke plume exceeding 10 kilometers until it burns itself out.

I object to the proposed Homebush BESS Works in this project because there are still so many unresolved concerns about risks and issues involved with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), for instance:
1. Lack of research into the life-cycle of BESS
2. Resource intensive requirements
3. Involves slavery in mining and production
4. Environmentally damaging
5. Fire starting risks increased
6. Fire-fighting dangers increased
7. Local fire risks considerably increased
8. Expensive
9. Short life-span
10. Variable operation
11. Very little Australian content
12. Increased energy and sovereign risks
13. Roads and road travel are impacted
14. Electricity charging and air-conditioning requirements are high
15. Classed as hazardous goods
16. No certainty at end of the short life of a BESS or frequent battery/inverter replacements
17. Increased dependency on intermittent electricity generation
18. Poor viability
19. Increase retail electricity prices.

Despite decades of rolling out wind and solar plants in many countries the CO2 emissions still rise every year. Wind and solar projects, including this proposed stand alone BESS project, just make no difference. This BESS will increase atmospheric CO2 and increase our NEM electricity system costs to me and other end consumers. I object to any project that costs me heaps for no benefit at all. Don't approve this useless project!
I oppose this project because the supply chain involves the use of slave labour. Cobalt and copper artisanal mining relies in slave labour in the DRC and the production of components in China uses slave labour. Stop these degrading projects.

Please refer to the attachment.

Please refer the attached letter on behalf of DFO Homebush- Vicinity Centres