Jupiter Wind Farm

This wind farm is been placed to close to family's houses and the village. This is not something we should have to look at on a daily basis . They r a monstrosity huge!!! And will have a big impact on our village and surround lives. Please read consider where u r placing these huge turbines australia is a massive country I'm sure there is somewhere where these turbines could go that wouldn't effect Anyone!!!
Have some consideration

23/12 2016

I'm against the jupiter wind farm.
I'm a volunteer fire fighter with the Boro/Mount Fairy bush fire brigade.
Last week there was a fire on Lower Boro Road near to where the proposed wind farm is to be built.
The fire was about 493Ha in size .It was an extremely scary fire.
In the EIS its mentioned "the most effective way to manage fire incidence is to use ground based resources ".
Try to tell the volunteer fire fighters who were doing their best over a few days and not getting the fire put out that. "The Southern Belle" (DC10 fire fighting plane ) flying over at about 70 metres above the ground dropped 44000 litres of fire retardant and got the fire under control in a few minutes, is less effective .The DC10 , water bombing helicopters and spotter helicopters (used by the RFS to work out the size of the fire and how to attack it ) would not be able to fly anywhere near the fire if wind turbines were in the area .Putting me and my friends in the bush fire brigade under more stress ,spending more time on the fireground, ( which is not one of my favourite places to be) and in more danger than is necessary.

I OPPOSE the Jupiter Wind Farm being built near our
R U R A L-R E S I D E N T I A L properties
because Wind Farms are INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES and need to be placed away from R U R A L-R E S I D E N T I A L properties, where they are NOT impacting
P E O P L E who have specifically chosen to live in this environment of rural harmony.

I have nothing against renewable energy, indeed we are off the grid with a passive solar house, solar panels & batteries.

I OPPOSE the Jupiter Wind Farm being built near our
R U R A L-R E S I D E N T I A L properties.

I object to the Jupiter windfarm, there are too many houses in this area being alot of hobby farm rural residential style subdivisions and its about time the department realize they need to reconsider allowing windfarms in areas that are not majority primary production, these areas are being populated by working families for the sole purpose of being in a quiet area with no industry & views of the countryside. Tarago is becoming the dumping ground for the department with the 2 existing windfarms, the mine & further mining expected & the veiolia garbage stench, with no real benefit to the community at all, there is more growth througg hobby farm subdivision. Move these turbines out of this area.

I believe this project should proceed for the following reasons.

It will bring valuable economic benefit to the Tarago and greater region.
It will contribute to the national renewable energy target as well as NSW net 0 emissions by 2050.
During construction the project would help most of the near by towns/townships/ localities with increased revenue.
It is also good to know the proponent has allowed the community the opportunity to benefit from the project via its benefit sharing program.
This is separate to the community enhancement fund which allow the broader community to also benefit. From the CCC minutes EPYC has committed to helping the broader region by speaking with telecommunication providers to help the rural residents with mobile reception. I could not imagine living in the country with no mobile reception.

I support this project and believe it should proceed for the following reasons:-

It will contribute to the current RET and any future targets sets by government.
NSW has set an ambitious net 0 emissions target by 2050. Such an ambitious statement needs to be backed up by the NSW renewable energy plan. NSW on a per capita basis is last for renewable energy when compared with other states.
Paris agreement is now a commitment. Lets See NSW commit to the progressing of this project and future renewable energy projects to lead the way to achieve its ambition.
The project benefits far outweigh any environmental impacts of the project.

I object to the development on three grounds. First, the Tarago district has already been burdened with the Capital Wind Farm and the Woodlawn Bioreactor which have adversely affected the amenity of the area. To add another major infrastructure project in an area which is increasingly residential is unfair, unwelcome and an expression of utter indifference to the views and aspirations of the people of the district. Second, the proposed development involves too many wind turbines in too small an area impacting too many homes. The development is far too dense and will harm the interests of those who are non-hosting properties. Third, the company has not consulted with the community in an open and honest way. It has made false claims about the disruption to amenity that will flow from the development and it has made exaggerated claims about the benefits to the community. The financial position of the company, its corporate governance, its risk mitigation strategies have not been shown to the community. This is not a company that can be trusted to adequately communicate with the community on any matter of substance. In sum, the community does not have any confidence in the professional competence of the company, including its ability to complete the development within the Department's guidelines.

To the Department of planning
I was raised on Boro Road at our family home. I had hoped to return and live there permanently in the future, but I have a new baby and I am very concerned that the environment may now be bad for him, if the wind farm is built. I am especially worried about the night time noise, and its effect on his learning and schooling. If it can make grown- ups miss sleep and make them feel sick then what will it do to babies and toddlers!
Also if all the big trucks are going up and down the road to build the wind farm it will be dangerous to drive on, I have heard stories about this from the locals at Gullen range.
I think a lot of people would probably move away, but it will be hard to sell for a reasonable price with so many turbines surrounding Boro Road, and they will be so big and close. It is very unfair that the person who puts the turbines on their land gets some money while all their neighbours have their homes and lives damaged. I don't think anyone else would move out to Boro if Jupiter is ever built. It will be a mess with giant turbines everywhere and a big substation just down the road.
The lovely rural views I love will be destroyed and it will feel like an industrial area. I am worried that it will be hard to sleep because of the noise, especially my child. Kids need their sleep. I have heard that there are still studies being done about the impact of the noise on people's health. How can you approve new wind farms until this is finished? What if it turns out to harm children? Who will take responsibility then?
There have always been a lot of eagles and bats at our place at Boro, I think that they will be all killed when the turbines spin.
I went to the meeting of the community in Tarago where local people were very upset. The wind farm company just tries to keep everything secret and won't tell local people anything, I don't trust them at all, and they seem to be bullies.
My family has worked hard and spent their lives building a home at Boro, it's just not fair to destroy all that. If it does get built then EPYC should have to buy Boro people out, so they aren't trapped there and can make a new start somewhere else.
I object to Jupiter wind farm and I think the department of planning should just reject it completely.
Charlotte Johnson,
Narooma NSW

Re Jupiter Wind farm- I have no objection to green power .
We purchased this land at Tarago 100 acres in 2008 to retire on and there was no indication the area was set aside for a massive wind farm project !! Very disappointing.
This wind farm project will destroy the countryside and have a significant impact on the value of the land . Surely there are other location that do not impact so many people , approx 5000 in the district I believe . Please do something to stop this development . Regards James Stanistreet Tarago NSW .

Submission to the department of planning 29/12/2017

I am writing to say that I oppose Jupiter wind farm. It should not be built.
My in family own land on Boro Road and I always enjoy the tranquillity and lovely scenery out there. We visit regularly and love the wildlife and environment. The Eagles and Black cockatoos soar around and I like to show these to my son. I think most of these will be killed by the turbines.
I have helped to work and build at the family home. My family has worked hard and spent all their savings to build their home and so have a lot of other families, it is not right that this wind farm should go ahead so close to homes. There are people living all around the area and I don't know anyone who wants the wind farm. Everyone is very upset with the company and the stress has gone on for years now.
There are already too many turbines around the place and people will avoid the area if Jupiter goes ahead. It must also devalue home prices for the people already there, it only makes sense. As my friend recently said "it looks like Mars around Bungendore already". Who wants to take out their mortgage to live on Mars?
I am worried about the visual effects and the noise at night, on my family, myself and my young son when visiting. I hear that people have trouble sleeping near wind farms. If this goes ahead we will have to reconsider our plan to move to the farm one day. I would like to live in the in the bush eventually but we certainly don't want to live near wind turbines.


Regards
Andrew Deighton
Narooma NSW

I object to the installation of the wind turbines being installed above the Tarago East Hills. I have invested all my retirement savings into my land and property and believe that the development of these turbines directly in front of my property, will devalue my land and home leading to me and my wife to being financially disadvantaged.

Additionally, I breed young race horses and they are severely impacted by the shadows that are cast across the paddocks by the turbines. These shadows will spook my horses causing them to possibly injure themselves. If this occurs I will financially impacted by approximately $20,000 if they can not race.

My wife and I bought this land specifically for the landscape, we do not wish to be looking at large turbines directly in front of our home.

Jupiter submission, Lee Edwards
Tarago is the wrong place for a wind farm and too many people will be affected. It should not be approved. If Jupiter is built our home will very close to turbines, just over 1000m, and they will be all around us.
We have worked hard for decades to build our home in the country. We did this for the peace and quiet and the lovely landscape. This will all be ruined if the wind farm goes ahead. We will have turbines all around us and very close. I think our sleep will be interrupted by night time noise, the flashing beacons and infra sound. This will affect our health in the long run.
A lot of local people are already planning to get out of the area while they can, but no one is sure what's going on yet. Everyone has been stressed out by this for years now. People have their building plans on hold, waiting to see if it's worth continuing, or whether they should use their savings to move away. We don't want to live in a wind farm but I think our house will be almost impossible to sell if Jupiter is built. No one will want to drive all this way to commute to Canberra or Goulburn and then live surrounded by giant spinning turbines.
This whole area is getting a name as a wind farm zone and people do not trust to buy land around here anymore. Even if you can't see the turbines from a property at the moment, you can never be sure that Jupiter's second stage won't be added later. All the other wind farms around here add more stages and bigger blades once they are approved.
There is no question that this is completely the wrong place for a wind farm, but if it does go ahead then my partner and I want to leave our home and live somewhere else. This would be a heartbreaking decision, as we have worked so hard and spent heavily on our home, but it would be better than living in a wind farm. Because it will be so hard to sell once the project is approved, we would like EPYC to at least offer to acquire our property, so we can get away and live in peace. This seems pretty fair, from what I hear EPYC will be making an absolute fortune from the tax payer subsidies.
Grid powerlines are not available on a lot of Boro Road so we and many other people have already paid a lot of money to install our own stand- alone solar power systems. So we are already doing the right thing and have spent a lot of money minimising our C02 footprint, and the reward is to have a giant wind farm forced on us for the benefit of city people on the grid.
As far as work goes I don't think any locals would really benefit from the wind farm. There might be some specialist work for big companies during construction but not much after it's built. Before Jupiter came along the area was picking up and plenty of people were happy to build homes and move out. Local businesses need a growing population and it would be better if new homes were built in the area again, and not the wind farm.
All the residents on the road have been observing the bush fires during December. The fire might have gotten away if it were not for the numerous helicopters and the DC 10. None of these could have been used if Jupiter was already built, the fire would have been in amongst the turbines. It will make the whole place much more dangerous to live in if Jupiter is approved, we won't be able to rely on water bombing.
The idea that EPYC will plant even more trees and brush near homes to screen the view is stupid; this is a fire prone area. Did they even think about that? They should visit during the fires, no one could have watched that and still say planting near homes is the solution, not even EPYC. Any way screening a window is useless. People out here spend their time outdoors working.
From looking at the maps I think our property is (). We have only been given a moderate/low rating for mitigated visual impact but our neighbour is moderate/high. We are only about 600meters apart and at the same height, the only difference is that we have some pines planted near the house. And these are old trees that we intend to remove to reduce fire danger! How can a just few trees make such a difference in the way that we are assessed? It's pretty hopeful to say have a low impact when we are only about 1000m from the nearest turbine! These ratings are ridiculous and misleading.
We see Corellas, little bats, Eagles and Glossy black cockies around here all the time and I expect that they will all die or leave if the turbines go up. It really wont be the same.
Also the soils along Boro creek are very unstable and erosion is always a big problem for stock owners around here. The local soils wash away as soon as they are disturbed and it's hard to get it to stop. They form deep gullies down to the bedrock very fast. The sediment from the wind farm earth works , concrete plants and roads will go straight down the creek, killing the animals and plants in it, and then into the Sydney water supply.
Jupiter wind farm is in the wrong place and just should not be approved.

Regards

Boro NSW

I am in disbelief that people today are more concerned with their 'view' rather than the environment. How long has the general public being complaining of climate change? What is the biggest cause? Burning coal. The government needs to take a stand and start creating a more sustainable country and stop allowing a small minority dictating how the country should operate. Wind turbines have been operating in European countries for years, as well as the USA. These countries are leading the way in renewable energy, something our country should be excelling in. If people area posed to wind turbine generated electricity, what do they suggest the country does? Do we continue with coal or God forbid, do we use nuclear power? People need power and governments need to make the right decision for the environment. This government is always concerned about being popular. How about we start with a long term plan and think about the next generation and the mess we are making of the environment. People who don't want wind turbines, let's charge them an extra surcharge, environmental cleanup and see if they like paying. Stop wasting time, think of the environment and get the wind turbines. I bet if the company paid everyone who opposes the turbines a fee for being disadvantaged, I'm sure they would support them. Money talks!!,
Get the wind turbines, ignore the screamers and start with the renewable energy.

In the current fiscal environment, country towns (Tarago) need an injection from any industries that have the potential to provide employment opportunities. Initial employment through construction and then ongoing employment in servicing and /maintenance of any infrastructure. This may provide opportunities for local persons to be employed locally as employment in their country areas is getting harder and harder to find.
Further, whilst sustainable energy is a political hot potato at the moment, demand on governments to reduce carbon in the atmosphere will increase and therefore the demand for such sustainable energies will increase.
This opportunity needs to be embraced now for the benefit of
future generations.

This proposal has severely damaged my family's financial and emotional wellbeing. We unsuccessfully attempted to sell our family home located < 2km from a proposed turbine and a stone's throw further from several more. This was despite it being aggressively marketed through the region's two best agents and at a significantly reduced price in the final stage of our failed attempt to protect something of our financial worth. Not only could we not sell it, we could not elicit a single offer. Not. A. Single. Offer. Life has taken our family elsewhere and we are now forced to rent in our new location while servicing the mortgage on our Boro property; we cannot buy without the money we thought was wisely invested there. To say this is frustrating, stressful and downright annoying is an understatement. This proposal has destroyed a dream and has the potential to do worse. Our family is in many ways in limbo. We have to wait an eternity for a final outcome. And longer if the proposal is approved and we hope to go down the voluntary acquisition avenue. This proposal impacts on families. The environment is a rural-residential community. This proposal absolutely obliterates the amenity, lifestyle and viability of such a community. Families, such as ours, within the community are hurting. End our pain.

First of all the towers are a monstrosity and I don't like the look of them and why I should not be able to sit on my veranda and see a country setting instead of these towers. We bought in this area as it was a quiet country setting.. Since then outsiders have ruined our local pub and now some of the locals want to ruin the rest of the area by turning it into a noisy ugly in-efficient power supply for the ACT..
If this goes ahead it will just be another in a long line of NSW govt sell outs BUT this time not to the Chinese but the Spanish who will take the governments money and run away as they have done all over the world.. It sucks

I object to the Jupiter Wind Farm Project. The proposed area is too populated an does not warrant such a large scale industrial development. The amended guidelines do not account for the size and scale of the proposed turbines.
Consultation with the community has lacked any sincerity and the newsletters generated by EPYC contain false and misleading information.
The visual impact of this project will be immense and affect upward of 540 homes. There is huge community concern and objection to the project and this has to taken into account by the dept of planning.

Dear Sir/Madam

I am opposed to the Jupiter wind farm for numerous reasons.

* Wind Farms are unsightly
* Health Implications
* Devalue property
* Makes land and homes unsaleable.
* Ruin rural landscape and views.
* No aerial firefighting can occur.
* Impact on wildlife and birds.

The Jupiter proposal is for some of the largest wind turbines ever built, to be constructed amongst a highly populated rural community, centrally located between Canberra and Sydney.
Turbines are ineffective, only working a third of the time and requiring 100% back up from sources such as coal or other forms of reliable power generation. They are not being built on economic principles. They may have a place in the overall scheme, but do not meet the needs of society as subsidies are to high both when generating power and more perverse when not producing power. They are extremely expensive to build for their limited lifespan of only twenty five years.

Wind energy is intermittent and unreliable. It will generate electricity on its schedule and not when it is needed by the electric grid.

The local roads were severely damaged when the Woodlawn turbines were constructed. This has resulted in the local ratepayers paying to have the roads reconstructed and maintained for many years after the Woodlawn wind farm was constructed. I am referring to the major road works needed to repair the damage to the edges of the roads due to the heavy wide loaded trucks needed to transport turbine components.

EPYC has failed to consult with the community in any effective way and has produced an EIS that is flawed in many respects. As such I don't believe this project should be approved.

Robert Brown

Dear Sir/Madam

I believe wind turbines are inefficient and unsightly and are completely inappropriate in a populated rural environment.

Industrial scale turbines disadvantage surrounding communities (especially close neighbours) in terms of visual impact, noise and vibration, flickering and shadowing, health concerns, tourism and local businesses.

Turbines definitely damage the local landscape quality and devalue property. The visual, noise and health impacts are very disturbing.
There is an undeniable profit motive for individual landowners ( that don't normally live on their properties ) and no-one can blame them for maximizing their income. However wind turbines are not an effective solution to our "green" energy needs and that because of the costs( visual, noise, health,wildlife) the Jupiter needs to be stopped and efforts put into more effective viable alternatives.

I am totally opposed to the Jupiter wind farm development planned for Tarago and surrounding areas.

This area is highly populated and will result in many households being affected by the proposed wind turbines.
It is reported that there are many and varied health problems including stress and insomnia. There will be an incredible number of people effected if this proposal is approved.

The proposed turbines will be some of the largest proposed in Australia to date completely destroying the natural beauty of the landscape. Local roads will be destroyed as has occurred at other wind farm projects in our area due to the size and weight of turbine components manufactured abroad and delivered to the project area. I for one do not want unsightly 55 story high industrial structures in my view.

Our land will be significantly devalued according to a real estate agent in the Yass region who has conducted a comprehensive study into land devaluation associated with wind farms in the area, and that is if we can sell at all, nobody wants to live next to an industrial wind complex.

We are currently blessed with beautiful countryside, very central location to two major cities being Canberra and Sydney.

I believe they are astonishingly expensive and supremely inefficient waste of time while decimating our landscape without any benefit to reducing CO2 for which they were supposedly produced.

Kylie Glasglow