Liverpool Range Quarry

SOS objects to this quarry as it adds to more destruction of our rural environment to support the costly, unreliable and environmentally destructive transition to Ruinables (wind, solar, BESS and transmission lines). As the recent advisory Frontier Economics research paper reveals, the true cost for Australians to have no effect on the climate is over $520 billion more than that proposed by the Federal Government. This implies electricity cost will have to be multiple times more than the already damaging retail price rises to date. We already have lost manufacturing, have record business failures that relied on reliable and plentiful electricity, households unable to afford power bills even after cutting usage. This can only worsen as a result of this quarry project. Thus, this proposed quarry project will not be in the public interest and would facilitate even more environmental destruction and economic vandalism.

We support the proposed development of the Liverpool Range Quarry as a business.
There is the potential for our services of drilling and blasting to be required in its operation.
If the proposal was to proceed, there could be full time work over some years for a number of our employees as well as sub contractors we engage to carry out our works.
As a regular user of the Golden Highway, having fewer gravel trucks servicing this project from outside would be much safer, as there is already a constant stream of heavy vehicles travelling along this road.
Our workers would require accomodation, food, fuels and mechanical services, all available in nearby local towns. This would see economic benefit to local businesses and families.

The quarry is inside the project which will cut travel time and the amount of trucks on the road and reduce the impact on local roads , the quarry has high quality materials which is good for the the construction of roads.

The proposed quarry would provide a local supply of high-quality quarry products for construction of the Liverpool Range Windfarm Project (LRWF) project and therefore not cause any extra haulage truck movements to the local and regional road network. It will only load construction materials to haulage trucks already approved under the LRWF project and will reduce construction traffic on the public road network associated with the LRWF project as construction haulage distances would be reduced. Consequently, the reduction in haulage truck movements would also reduce road safely risks, a reduction in road maintenance costs and produce lower greenhouse gas emissions.

I support the Liverpool Range Quarry Project as, if approved, the Project would provide a critical source of construction materials to support the construction of the Liverpool Range Wind Farm - all within the footprint of the wind farm. This would significantly reduce the total haulage distance that heavy vehicles associated with the wind farm would need to travel on the local and regional road network if construction materials were to be sourced and transported from distant commercial quarries (most located 100-150 km from the wind farm). The quarry project provides an excellent opportunity for haulage distances to be reduced by in excess of 17 million kilometers if construction materials are sourced from the proposed quarry. A reduction in heavy vehicle haulage has flow on benefits to community amenity, improved road safety, reduction in road degradation and maintenance costs, and will improve the greenhouse gas footprint of the wind farm.