Hunter Transmission Project

This totally unnecessary, ruinous plan is Economic Suicide by Design.
It doesn’t just fail to help the economy—it will destroy jobs, cripple industry, bankrupt households, and fuel energy poverty across regional and urban Australia.

This is CCP Engineered Collapse of our Electricity Grid!
With no engineering rigour, no scientific justification, and no functioning economic model, this is a planned collapse of grid stability and energy self-sufficiency.

No Consent, No Social Licence, No Legitimacy!
This is a predatory bully bulldozing through NSW with zero social licence, ignoring public outrage, expert opposition, and basic democratic process—authoritarian dictators working for the CCP & the demise of Australia’s electricity grid.

Disgraceful Greenwashing by crooked, predatory ENERGY CO - promulgating false climate narrative, using "renewables" as a smokescreen for industrial-scale land theft, ecosystem destruction, and wealth transfer to the CCP.

Please see attached submission regarding our objection to the HTP running through the Millfield valley. Please don't let this happen to us, this place is our life and it is beautiful. The long term impacts on the community will far outweigh any short term cost savings EnergyCo are hell bent on achieving by building a completely new corridoor because its easy for their trucks, rather than using existing small lines that could more cost effectively be widened to achieve the same goal. thank you.

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This transmission project is an unforgivable betrayal—driven by foreign-compromised profiteers, destroying landscapes, defiling precious biodiversity including Littlejohn's Tree Frog, wrecking Intergenerational Equity and eroding every pillar of national sovereignty.

To whom it may concern
I live in millfield where the proposed project is ment to be taken place.
First off this is a small town and so is its roads which are barely drivable with just car traffic let alone heavy equipment being haul over it.
The proposed sites across from the school will effect drop off and pick ups and effect children learning as well as health concers from dust which will be caused by earth works.
This will also bring children safety into question with the increase traffic burden placed around the school area.
Such a project will also effect the native wild life in the area which supports many endangered species.
There are 3 road giving access to millfield one from wollimbi which has worse roads than us the other sand creek road which is more of a goat track or access from cessnock.
Now access from cesnock which all ready has significant road works taking place also has a bridge which is called the pinch. Heavy machinery being haul though this area will more than likely cause a accident or damage the bridge it self.
A better plan is need here the damage to roads children safety and environmental impact will be significant.

Dear sir. I am making a submission regarding the 500kV high tension power lines suspended between towers of 85 m high passing within the take off and landing corridor of the runways at the Warkworth airfield in the north Hunter region of NSW. These lines and towers are a dangerous obstacle for glider pilots flying from the Warkworth airfield. They will intrude into the take off and landing corridor causing inexperienced pilots like myself to rather not fly from the airfield and remove another field from the options available to me. I can only imagine the danger and difficulty of returning from a cross country flight low and be faced with a cage of high tension cables threatening to electrocute me, or being aero towed by a tug experiencing engine problems and not climbing and flying directly into the cables. These risks are not acceptable when they encroach on a currently safe airfield turning it into a marginal airfield. Something can be done about this unsatisfactory state of affair's and I appeal to your good judgement.

I appeal to the designers of this project to move the track of these cables sufficiently away from the Warkworth airfield to remove the extreme danger that they present.

Thank you for your attention.

Shaun McMenamin
0479 198 704.

I object to the project. Please see attached letter.

I object to the application SSI-7061045 for the reasons set out in the attached.

Dear Sir/Madam
Re: Submission in response to Hunter Transmission Project Environmental Impact Statement
Upon review of the above mentioned EIS prepared by EnergyCo on behalf of the NSW Government. I have found the document is severely lacking detail in regarding the cumulative impacts that the project presents to the local residents who will be negatively impacted by the proposed development through the construction phase and operational phase. The community although being consulted throughout the planning process has had very little influence on conveying their concerns throughout this document and have been consistently overlooked through the planning process. The following impacts of traffic, social/economic and visual need further investigation as there are likely to be serve negative impacts for local community.
Traffic/ Roads Impact
HTP will have a negative impact on the local road network as it will be a traffic generating development. Local roads in their current condition are unsafe, increased traffic including construction and oversized loads during the construction of the project putting road users lives at risk. My main concern is Pokolbin Mountain Road a narrow winding road that links bitumen roads with the Pokolbin State Forest (HTP Central). Suggested mitigation measure would be to undertake road widening, bitumen to minimise dust and erosion potential, increase the number of under road drains to allow water off road network and provide funding to local council to maintain the road once the project reaches operational phase.
Social/Economic Impact
HTP will have a serve negative social/economic impact for my family living at 340 Pokolbin Mountains Road, Pokolbin. The project during the construction phase will dramatically increase construction in the early hours of the morning resulting in sleep interruptions for residents and guests on the property. Upgrades and widening of Pokolbin Mountain Road is likely to cause long delays to commute a recent example of this was battering repairs to the road resulting in wait times greater than 45mins for a journey that normally takes 5mins to complete. My family have a tourism accommodation business on their property where guests pay to stay at peaceful location away from this kind of disruption and will be impacted negatively by the proposed development. Suggested mitigation measures compensation to business owners who will impacted by the development HTP rents the tourist accommodation during the construction as compensation for loss of income.
Visual Impact
Viewpoint reference PR-C19 is incorrectly referenced as 340 Pokolbin Mountain Road, Pokolbin in this report. The correct reference for PR-C19 is 1384 Wollombi Road, Millfield. The development looking from the Eastern Boundary looking West will have a significant visual impact on the sunset vista. HTP will detract from the natural landscape through clearing of transmission line and construction of towers an unnatural/ industrial vista in a scenic rural landscape impacting amenity of area and detracting from future property value. Suggested mitigation is compensation for the projects loss of view. Secondary mitigation on property tree planting to provide a vegetation screen from the proposed development.
There are many more issues with this development that have been raised by the Pokolbin Mountain Road Action group that need further investigation.
I look forward to hearing your response and encourage any questions you may have in relation to my submission.

I am concerned about a renewable energy project taking priority of biodiversity. Environmental concerns including endangered vegetation and habitat destruction , threatened species including the swift parrot , regent honey eater, green and golden bell frog, Littlejohns tree frog and landscape and visual impacts.

I object because the HTP’s route crosses multiple sensitive waterways and farmland that are not expendable. The argument that we need a 500 kV ring “for the grid backbone” is unconvincing when existing infrastructure could be repurposed or strengthened. The visual, environmental and agricultural disruption is far too great. Transmission lines at this voltage present severe safety risks: they can spark, arc, breakdown insulation; during storms or bushfires, parts may fail. Aerial suppression is restricted around transmission lines, limiting firefighting. Worldwide, when lines fail, the costs are enormous in human life, property, ecosystem destruction. If this line is critical, why is there no comprehensive cost‐benefit comparison with alternatives (underground, reroute, strengthen existing towers) in terms of safety, environmental, agricultural, fire risk?

I object to the impacts on waterways from this proposed transmission line. The plan fails to adequately assess run‐off, sediment, and chemical contamination that occurs during construction and maintenance near streams and wetlands. Also the new infrastructure across farmland places residents at increased risk: transmission towers and lines are potential ignition sources in periods of drought or heatwave. Aerial firefighting may be impeded by electromagnetic fields, conductor height, operational safety limits. The EIS does not convincingly show that risk is negligible. There are countless precedents where lines have caused devastating fires because maintenance was insufficient. If this overhead line is approved, what binding operational guarantees and monitoring will ensure that waterway health and fire suppression capacity are not compromised?

As a landowner in the path of HTP, I strongly oppose the overhead 500 kV line cutting across my farmland. This new corridor threatens waterways—creeks and drainage lines—that are essential for irrigation, stock water and biodiversity. The project claims to “unlock renewables” but that does not justify destroying farmland or water quality when existing lines could be upgraded or underground options considered. Moreover, aerial firefighting efforts will be impeded: high voltage lines force aircraft to stay back, reducing ability to drop retardants or do patrols. Internationally, transmission line failures have started catastrophic bushfires (e.g. in CA, USA). What provisions will compensate for loss of pasture, crop yield, and water contamination if these incidents occur and aerial suppression is prohibited by voltage hazards?

I object to the Hunter Transmission Project (HTP) on the grounds that this new overhead 500 kV double circuit line is not necessary. Existing transmission corridors already run through the Upper to Lower Hunter; why must a brand‐new 110 km overhead line bisect prime farmland when capacity could be increased on those lines already present? The proposed route is dangerously close to waterways (rivers, creeks, wetlands) which will suffer habitat disruption, erosion, siltation and water pollution. Overhead lines also pose a grave fire hazard: faults, arcing or component failure during extreme heat could spark fires that cannot be suppressed from the air due to danger of flying aircraft into high voltage zones. Global case studies show transmission disasters where wells, livestock, homes and ecosystems were destroyed. If this project proceeds, what guarantee is there that fires will be suppressed when aerial firefighting becomes impossible under or near the lines during severe bushfires, high winds or smoke?

The transmission lines that are proposed have a negative effect on the airstrip owned by Hunter Valley Gliding Club. These lines will restrict flying and reduce safety for all those using the airstrip.

This reduction in safety and flying will force members to move to other areas to fly, which will be a loss to the Hunter Valley. There are members that travel over four or more hours to fly gliders at Warkworth Airstrip.

Should pilots be required to fly in low due to many reasons these powerlines will be a hazard with the potential of crashes with injuries and deaths.

I would recommend there be more discussions with the Hunter Valley Gliding Club to review the options for reducing the effect of these powerlines. It is important that this new infrastructure does not reduce safety or flying operations to this important Gliding club.

I vigorously oppose the Hunter Transmission Project due to its permanent detrimental impact on strategic agricultural land and farming enterprises.

I object about thr planned path through millfield.
Not only will it destroy its natural beauty, natural animal habitats, but also affect future house sales prices.
There are other more sensible paths away from millfield that can be used.
Stop destroying small towns we want to keep our tree lines, not sights of powerlines