Liverpool Range Quarry

The Liverpool Range Wind/Transmission/Quarry represents an increase of 287% in traffic movements each day along Vinegaroy Road, a small rural road that is not fit for this traffic load. 287%! The impacts on regular traffic & on the people who live in this area cannot be overstated.
There no consideration of the environment & natural heritage or biodiversity when construction relates to a wind turbine project & its destructive components? Why? A massive quarry will impact the landscape, bird & animal habitat & the Talbragar River.
Why does the Quarry EIS make no mention of cumulative impact?
During operations, this giant hole in the ground will be an eyesore & a dust hazard & contribute to noise pollution.

We wish to take this opportunity to notify the developer that we are a specialist supplier of biodiversity credits for projects within and throughout NSW.

The NSW government has dismissed environmental & cultural heritage issues and net zero targets to build the Liverpool Range wind farm. This quarry is a continuation of that along with the following considerations;
Traffic on the Vinegaroy Road will increase by 287% compared to surveyed traffic results in 2023
The quarry EIS does not take into account cumulative impact.
Once the quarry is there, the land owner can sell this resource to multiple other projects & the land will never be rehabilitated.
What impacts will this quarry have on the Talbragar River?
As the quarry material is required for roads, turbine foundations etc., the heavy traffic should be directed through the wind project boundaries & through the properties of those who elected to participate.
This quarry will be another blight on our rural landscape brought about by this Liverpool Plains Wind Project. This is unacceptable to the people who live nearby.

Noise, dust, air, water pollution

I am mostly concerned with the big increase of traffic, particularly heavy vehicles, that will be using Vinegaroy Rd. It is a narrow, winding, hilly road and having lots of trucks on it is going to be extremely dangerous. There are limited passing opportunities so people will take risks. Not to mention meeting a truck on one of the bends. It will be an accident waiting to happen.

We don't want this project. We don't want the Tilt project. We don't want to be in a Renewable Energy Zone.

Nobody consulted us. Nobody even told us we were in a Renewable Energy Zone. Stop wrecking our homes.

This and the associated project are going to permanently damage our environment. All for the financial benefit of the foreign owned TILT. As for the landowner hosting this project....what are you doing?????

Not a quarry but an open cut mine!

Locals and current heavy vehicle transport drivers will be at greater risk of accidents. Where are the nearest emergency services? Are they volunteers? Is there a well equipped and well staffed local hospital?

Stop wrecking rural communities.

I feel sorry for the people who are trying to live and work in this community.

The traffic from this project and all the other projects in the area will create havoc on the local roads. Truck drivers are in short supply, where are all the drivers of these heavy vehicles coming from?

Will they be experienced drivers or will they be rushed through the licencing process in order to drive all these heavy vehicles. We've already seen multiple accidents caused by heavy vehicle drivers who are unfamiliar with local conditions and inexperienced in heavy vehicle transport. Review the heavy vehicle accident in April this year when 3 people died as 2 trucks collided in South Australia.

What assurances can you give the local community that a repeat of this accident is not about to be replayed in their community?

This is obviously not a quarry...this is an open cut mine!

How is this environmental? The results will be depletion of groundwater, loss of habitat, extensive land clearing, contamination of the Talbragar River, noise and dust pollution, extensive use of earthmoving equipment to dig up non renewable resources to make cement and build roads in what is currently grassy timbered landscape.

I am against the development of this gigantic quarry for many reasons, not least of which being yet another permanent disfigurement of our landscape. It seems to me that once the already wealthy landowner has made all he can out of the wind “farmers”, no doubt he’ll go on ripping up the land to sell to others. Then when all that can be taken from it has been and there is nothing left but a giant hole I wonder what will happen to it. My suspicion is that it will be considered a great place to dump all your poisonous and non-recyclable, broken down turbines, solar panels etc., as is already happening in Queensland. First you will rip our country apart and then you will poison it, despite all the evidence of the stupidity of it all.

I wish to go on record as strongly objecting to this project. With the plan being to increase traffic on the already barely trafficable Vinegaroy Road by 287 (almost 300)%, the people who actually pay their rates in this area will be unacceptably inconvenienced, if not outright endangered. School buses travel along this road. Are they now to have to negotiate between giant trucks and machinery as well as potholes and steep drop-offs along the edges of the road? Why are the majority of people, who do not want these monstrosities that are being foisted on them, now to be endangered by them? Why can the wind factories not transport their hideous loads through the lands of the people who have already sold out to them? Surely, this would give them a more direct route anyway.

I Vehemently Object to the Liverpool Range Wind Quarry.

A proposed hard rock quarry that would extract, process, and transport up to 700,000 tpa of hard rock material for the purpose of supporting the construction, operation and maintenance of the approved Liverpool Range Wind Farm (LRWF) Project (SSD-669) Cease and Desist Immediately.

Was this quarry offered as a Submission at the same time the Liverpool Range Wind Farm was ? It's a Significant Impact to Land area in the Liverpool Ranges. Are you knowing where you are on the Catchments Murray Darling Basin, Our Food Bowl Catchments ? No. Sadly. You don't farm. You won't be Impacted will you. Will you. No, of course not.

Of course not. You don't know what you're doing to Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments. Resign. Thank you.

Resign, thanks, you in gov.au and Including councils and Mayors Unaware.

The quarry has the potential to remove over 100,000 truck movements from the regional road network during the LRWF construction period, but still translates to significant Impacts to Catchments of the Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl, Cumulative NB.

I Do need a Royal Commission into Renewables Immediately. Projects get approved and are Still without Particular Information being Assessed as Part of a Wind Farm proposal ???

Comprehensive assessments of cumulative impacts from over 40 largescale wind, solar, and transmission projects within or near the REZ are NOT conducted and environmental, social, and economic costs are NOT researched nor assessed. I Demand an Inquiry Immediately. These projects are planned upon Australia's Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments. Do you understand ? Sadly, no.

Cease and Desist All Renewables On Country Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments Immediately Now.

Offer the Rooftops Only Option Now from Now.

Our Earth is a what to you ? What is it to you please ? Ask yourself, What is Earth ? What is it ? Do you know ? When will you know.

Wake Up and Care for Country Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments Australia, in the Wrong Hands, sadly.

Cumulative Impacts are To What please ? Not to you. Not to your Land. Hey.

Do you know something. One day you will be Responsible.

You are All Fully Responsible.

All of you as gov.au and Including Mayors of local councils.

One day maybe, maybe, maybe, you will be Awake and in a state of Shame Shame Shame for your part in enabling Cumulative Impacts from Renewables projects upon Our Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments No-one is assessing are they. How Dare you All. How Dare You All.

God Be In You.

Be In You.

Be You.

Awaken. Awaken. And Awaken.

Do please.

Land is Sacred you see. You have No Permission to do Anything to Liverpool Ranges Environment All On Country Environment Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments, but somehow you do get away with it, somehow.

In the Ranges is the Sacred.

Now under Threats Cumulative, Non-assessed and Why ? Answer me.

I do Demand an Immediate Moratorium on Renewables and associated activities as Cumulative Impacts unassessed, unassessed, upon Australia's Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments Immediately Now.

Use Rooftops Only for All Wind and solar projects to power " Homes" now from now.

Cease and Desist planning Cumulative Impacts Renewables projects upon Our Australian Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments.

You Don't own the Land a project is upon. Who do you think you are assessing Nothing really, hey. Benefits are to Who, hm ? Who receives the Benefits of projects Cumulative but NOT assessed as such. How Dare you All.

Shame on you All.

Especially councils. Dear God, you are Disgusting. Yes you are, you in Councils ignorant ignorant ignorant, Greedy for Money as you Waste it, Waste it, Waste it, as We Pay, Hey Hey Hey.

Cost is To Us Rate Payers and it needs an Inquiry it Does, the Renewables issues Harming Environments All On Country Environments whilst a Few receive Benefits, how come ? It's a Disgrace, the Renewables Issues, Cumulative, Cumulative, Yes, Cumulative. Don't you Care for Country and All On Country Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments, hm ? Obviously Not. It's Not Your place under Threat is it, hm ? You are All a Disgrace. A Disgrace. Hang your heads in Shame. Go on.

Where will our Wind go ? Ours. Yes, Ours. Top of the Range of the Great Divide Winds. Where Will they go ? Cumulative Impacts threaten our Wind on the Top of the Range Great Divide.

Where is Protection to Environment All On Country Environment these days. There isn't any is there.

You don't understand what you're doing to the Environment do you. But you Will be Responsible won't you. Yes. You are Deciding Our Future so therefore will be Responsible, will, will. Will.

Yes, you will. Yes, you, gov.au. How Dare You All.

Shame on you All.

One day it will not be the same here any more. Mother Earth will not be Her. After Billions and Billions and Billions of years of Nature Creation, Mother Earth will not be the same, due to the Ever Increasing Human planned, Human enacted Cumulative Impacts to Catchments Dry Continent Australia. Do you understand ? How Dare You All as gov.au think you can do as you please on Country Mother Earth, ever so Sacred, Yes.

The Liverpool Ranges are Sacred Sacred Sacred. You don't know that do you. Why ? You should know. You know, Cultural Heritage Values of Country are in EIS but aren't, hey. I Do Demand an Immediate Moratorium on Renewables Immediately Now. This Land is under Threats Unlike Ever before and Without Protection, Why ?

Net Zero is a Farce.

A Farce. Obvious.

Quite Obvious.

Why aren't Rooftops Only the Obvious Choice for Wind and Solar projects, And At Far Less Cost.

You Will Be Responsible for Cumulative Impacts to the State of NSW Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments, under Threats Unlike Ever before, Accumulating , rather than Decreasing, Decreasing, Decreasing to be in Alignment with Net Zero as a Less Less Less Impacts upon Earth focus, Rather than Impacts Increasing Increasing Increasing upon Mother Earth For NO Reason At All.

Wind generation infrastructure can be On Rooftops Only , alongside Solar, for Best Benefits to Environment All On Country Environment and the People of NSW, Without Without Without the Immense Impacts Cumulative now Planned for Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments unnecessarily.

I feel you will pay for what you are doing to Our Nation.

Yes you will pay, you will.

How ? You will be Fully Responsible and will.

And will.

I Demand All Wind generation Infrastructure be On Rooftops Only, alongside Solar, Now from Now.

Liverpool Range Wind Farm will Cease.

As will plans for a Quarry no longer needed.

Wake Up you there in our councils as gov.au. How Dare You All plan a High Impacts Future to the Australian Food Bowl Catchments that Grow Our Food, Food, Yes, Food, under Threats, Cumulative, Increasing Why, when All you have to do is Cease All Renewables projects On Country On Farmlands In Wilderness In Oceans and put them All, modified of course, upon Rooftops ONLY to serve the Homes of NSW with electricity, at Far Less Cost All Round, All Round.

Jesus Christ Awaken the Unaware please who plan a Hideous future without Awareness of Cumulative impacts to the Australian Food Bowl Catchments, the Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments, we All Depend on.

I Demand an Immediate Moratorium on Renewables On Country Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments NSW.

I Demand Wind and solar generation Infrastructure be upon Rooftops ONLY for a Better Outcome at much Lower Cost to All Concerned.

Cease and Desist Liverpool Range Quarry proposal Immediately Now. There is No use for it. There Won't be a Wind Farm will there. Wind and solar infrastructure will be On Rooftops Only Now From Now, won't they, to offer Benefits to us All On Country NSW Murray Darling Basin Food Bowl Catchments.

Council objects to the proposal.

The flood event of November 2021 was declared a Natural Disaster event on the Talbragar River and grants were made available for flood damage to infrastructure. Photos of High Water Level at the intersection of Cooinda Rd and Vinegaroy Rd - flooding through the night and other photos during the morning showing floodwater still over flats on Cooinda, adjacent to Tangaratta. Logs brought downstream from Tangaratta/Yarrawonga deposited on flats on Cooinda. Cattle stranded. Pump shed inundated.
EIS uses data from Dubbo "Blue Book" - 100km downstream from Deans Quarry project site - irrelevant to local conditions

‘Quarries are temporary, but their environmental impacts are forever.

Quarries are created by removing topsoil, followed by drilling and blasting to extract minerals and sedimentary rocks. Roads and other facilities are also created to support mining operations, such as transport. Every stage of a quarry’s life cycle comes at an enormous environmental cost: loss of natural carbon sinks, eradication of biodiversity, noise and air pollution, and disruption of natural streams and springs. And these losses can never be reversed, even after quarries are inevitably abandoned.

These harmful effects aren’t only felt by the local flora and fauna, but also by people. In certain cases, local populations have even been permanently displaced. After there is nothing left to be extracted, or extraction becomes unprofitable, quarries often become filled with rainwater – creating dangerous lakes with sharp rocks and cliffs – or, worse still, are used as landfills.’
ECOS, Environmental Coalition of Standards (an international NGO, based in Brussels, with a network of members & experts advocating for environmentally friendly technical standards, policies, & laws)

The planned quarry project has the potential to exacerbate climate change, biodiversity loss, & pollution.

The Coolah region is in the process of being negatively impacted by 333 wind turbines. Every basalt ridge around the small, lower socio-economic town of Coolah will be blasted in order to support 2 wind factories & 333 turbines.

TILT Renewables has approval to blast 5 ½ days a week without the need to notify the local population, unlike the mining industry in the Hunter region.

It will be similar for ACEN Valley of the Winds wind factory.

The two wind factories will support a FIFO population of approx. 1000+ workers.
The population of Coolah is approx. 1200 individuals. So in effect the two wind factories will double the population of our region.

The increase in FIFO population, with the accompanying increase in traffic, noise, light pollution, water contamination, pressure on existing services, pressure on roads & infrastructure, impact on agricultural activities has NOT been given proper & thorough consideration, especially considering the majority of the submissions for these two wind factories opposed these projects.

These two wind factories will impact the flora & fauna of the Coolah National Park & surrounds, with its critically endangered, endangered & vulnerable wildlife. The one road into the National Park will become a service road for TILT Renewables. It will be closed to the public during the construction phase & will have turbines on either side of it.

This is the degradation the Coolah region will experience. And federal & state governments are NOT taking into consideration the CUMULATIVE impact of localised renewable projects, including quarries. The proposed quarry will compound this degradation. The quarry EIS does NOT take into consideration this devastating CUMULATIVE impact.

International studies have found that the CUMULATIVE impact of wind factories, & associated activities including quarrying, have a deleterious impact on local environments & communities. These impacts include negative health issues, noise pollution (including infrasound), disruption to ecosystems, disruption to agriculture, warming of local environments, division & ill-feeling in rural families & communities. The cost being borne by the PEOPLE of the Coolah region is TOO GREAT. It is decidedly unfair, in a country that has always valued the concept of ‘Fair Go, Mate!’. It is also UNAUSTRALIAN as it is changing forever the rural way of life in the COOLAH region.

The proposed quarry will add to the environmental degradation & destruction. It will mean a 287% increase of traffic, trucks & lorries, along the Vinegaroy Rd, a quiet country road. It will mean, that once dug, quarrying will be ongoing, & be used for multiple additional projects. At decommissioning stage, the community will be left with a 25m gaping hole in the ground that could well be used for unrecyclable rubbish from the two wind factories, leading to contamination of local waterways, including the Talbragar River. The site will be unusable for any agricultural activities due to soil contamination.

This submission is being forwarded with the conviction that COOLAH citizens will NOT be heard or listened to, just as we have NOT been listened to or heard regarding the construction of 2 wind factories & 333 turbines on our basalt ridges. The COOLAH community opposed these, just as the COOLH community is opposing this quarry.

We want to retain our rural Australian way of life. We want a ‘Fair Go, Mate!’

The project overview is very misleading with regards to the "Project Life" and impact on the landscape and community. The 'Project Life' is stated as 3-4 years, however reading deeper into the document it states that the quarry will "remain operable" and remediation will not fully occur until the "closure and decommissioning of the LRWF Project" which is expected to have a lifespan of 20-25 years. Who is to be held accountable for the remediation if this company no longer exists? Is the money being held in trust by the Government for this remediation? The remediation also makes no mention of replanting trees, only pasture seeds. The designated area is populated with mature eucalypts, kurrajongs and other natives which should be reinstated. See attachment. Note in DSCF4798 - clearing has already commenced by the owner in preparation for the quarry.

A quarry is an open cut mine. This project is so vast it requires State Government Approval not council approval.

The proponent would like us to believe that the traffic on our local roads will be reduced given the pit location, this is deceptive.

According to the proponent there was an average of 443 vehicle movements per day in 2023 along Vinegaroy Road. Given the transmission, wind, and "Liverpool Range Quarry" projects vehicle movements on this road are expected to increase by 287%.

At no stage does the proponent consider the cumulative impact of traffic on the Vinegaroy Road.

All traffic associated with the "Liverpool Range Wind Farm" and the "Liverpool Range Quarry" should be restricted to the boundary of the "Liverpool Range Wind Farm". The resources from the "Liverpool Range Quarry" are to be used for roads within the"wind farm" project, turbine hardstands and cement production. This project is located on land within the "wind farm" that is hosting a large number of turbines. Therefore the project is well located to transport all materials through the land hosts. The environmental destruction to land within the "Liverpool Range Wind Farm" is significant, thousands of trees are being bulldozed and roads are being forced through land that currently has no roads. All these internal roads will have to accommodate heavy vehicles. Why transport the "quarry" materials along Vinegaroy Road?

You are putting the community at risk.

What's to stop the land owner repurposing this "quarry" as land fill for obsolete batteries, solar panels, turbine components?

Once approved this project will no doubt be extended then re issued for use by numerous other environmentally destructive projects in the so called "Central West Orana Renewable Energy Zone".

Both projects: "Liverpool Range Quarry" and "Liverpool Range Wind Farm" will use vast amounts of ground water. This will undoubtedly impact on the ground water supplies for all users nearby. Exactly how many people and businesses will be impacted by this? Will the water in the local creeks and the Talbragar river be impacted by the "Liverpool Range Wind Farm" and the "Liverpool Range Quarry"?

Why is the NSW Government approving projects that use enormous amounts of water for dust suppression and cement production at the expense of the health of waterways and agricultural production?

Why is the NSW Government approving projects that are contributing to our greenhouse gas emissions?

Why is the NSW Government approving projects that carry out extensive land clearing?

Why is the NSW Government approving projects that risk further extinctions of vulnerable, threatened and protected native flora and fauna?

Deans Quarry Objection
The proponent claims the following benefits of the Quarry in Appendix 11:
‘a substantial reduction in heavy vehicle movements on the surrounding local and regional road network, which results in significant improvements to road safety and community amenity’ (pg.1)
As part of the Liverpool Range wind farm (LRWF) project, this quarry will contribute to an enormous increase in traffic on Vinegaroy Road, hugely increasing danger for users on the road and causing major disruption to the community.
Claiming reduced traffic by comparisons to hypothetical scenarios (Table 12) that do not currently exist is deceptive at the very least.
This proposed quarry is a critical component of the Liverpool Range wind farm (LRWF), and so forms part of the cumulative impacts that the entire development will have on the community and district, including road traffic.
This quarry is solely for the purpose of the LRWF, as specified in Appendix 11 – Traffic Impact Assessment:
‘the Quarry is solely for the purpose of the LRWF Project’ (pg.1)
This means that a realistic analysis of road traffic along Vinegaroy Road can only be made by comparing current traffic volume with predicted future volume under a LRWF-Quarry construction scenario.
The stakeholders most affected by the proposed LRWF-Quarry development are the landowners, residents and road users of key community access roads such as Vinegaroy Road. However, the LRWF-Quarry proponent implies (via Figure S2, pg. v) that the various stakeholders noted are equally affected by the LRWF-Quarry. To suggest that stakeholders such as local media and government agencies will be subject to the same personal danger and inconvenience as local residents who are forced to drive Vinegaroy Road for essential supplies is absurd and insulting.
Residents using Vinegaroy Road will be subject to an enormous increase in heavy and light vehicle traffic from the cumulative impacts of the LRWF, Quarry, EnergyCo and associated renewable developments.
According to the LRWF amendment report:
‘most if not all light and heavy vehicles will follow the Golden Highway and Vinegaroy Road to access the LRWF site’ (pg.10)
The traffic increase of EnergyCo must also be included, as without the LRWF proposal, EnergyCo would have no reason to be there constructing transmission infrastructure. The relevant traffic impact assessment of proponents states the following one-way daily traffic increases relevant to the LRWF development:
 EnergyCo - 337 vehicle movements per day
 Vinegaroy Road upgrades - 75 heavy vehicle movements per day
 LRWF – 225 vehicle movements per day
This means that the increase in traffic movements in both directions along Vinegaroy Road as a result of the LRWF development proposal will be approximately 1275 per day.
Clearly this represents a substantial increase in traffic, danger and inconvenience for affected residents. Based on data from Table 13: Existing Traffic Numbers, Vinegaroy Road had an average 443 vehicle movements per day in 2023.
The LRWF-Quarry-EnergyCo development therefore represents an increase of 287% in traffic movements per day along Vinegaroy Road. This is a substantial and significant increase in any real-world assessment. The separation of the Quarry into a separate development application is not relevant to the real world increase of 287% in traffic movements along Vinegaroy Road.

This is just another project railroading these communities for the net zero target. There is no consideration given to these communities that are getting walked all over. The environmental impact is far worse to this prime agricultural land than the benefits. I object to the proposal of this quarry, and all other projects planned for this entire area.
It’s time someone starts listening to the people living in these communities.

I object to the quarry & to all the renewable solar & wind farms that are being built!
Your solar panels & wind turbines that are going to be all over the beautiful landscape that we call home, now to add insult to injury you are wanting a quarry! There is already enough pollution without adding, dust, noise, traffic pollution to the mix.
We came out here for a peaceful lifestyle & beautiful views.
The centre of Australia has millions of acres of uninhabited land that could be used for all these so called renewable energy sources why put them on land in someone’s back yard.
What happens in 25 yrs when they are all at the end of their life span and none of it can be recycled, what happens to the hole in the ground?! You are so NOT burying all of it under our feet where the contamination will continue to wreak havoc on the environment for the next generations to come!