MOD 3 - Additional Adit

DCCEEW - BCS Advice

Submission is attached.

I feel wind turbine corporations, AEMO, AER, NEM are a financial scam where Australians are not being told the truth because Jim Chalmers is refusing to publicly reveal the corruption findings that were discovered under his predecessor, Josh Frydenberg (https://theklaxon.com.au/chalmers-gives-frydenberg-free-pass-over-asic-report-stitch-up/). Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who promised transparency in his government is not doing anything about these ASIC (Australian Securities and Investment Commissioner) corruption findings. (https://www.sydneysun.com/news/274402407/albanese-government-covers-for-coalition-in-asic-corruption-probe) Therefore, because wind turbine corporations, AEMO, AER, NEM AND Marinus Link are all under ASIC, wind turbines and Marinus Links are FINANCIAL products rather than "energy" products that will NOT do what the wind turbine corporations, Marinus Link, local Councils, State and Federal Government say they will do. See the below links:

https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?id=47630194562 - Marinus Link
https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=94072010327- AEMO
https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=73102579788 - NEM
https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=82629939224 - AER
https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=99094836263 - Renewable Energy Company Pty Ltd (just one example of an "energy" corporation under ASIC (Australian Securities and Investment Commission), which again, makes wind turbines a FINANCIAL product rather than an "energy" product and nothing more than an extremely dodgy scam that is NOT good for Australia or Australian constituents who are being forced to pay for this SCAM against their will. https://drive.proton.me/urls/PBF6F01YT4#KFBhKnUpaSeX

https://podcasts.musixmatch.com/podcast/ben-fordham-live-on-2gb-breakfast-01hrxx3csmf1sz48j67gyataf6/episode/saturday-bureaucrats-using-dodgy-accounting-to-help-
01j49snnc0sez90jb5b4g7yy72

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H0GCeS65uc Environmental impacts of renewables in Queensland by Steven Nowakowski and Jeanette Kemp

"Taxpayers are entitled to know they are getting value for money from the billions of dollars being spent on projects to enable a transition to lower-emissions energy. Those responsible must not be allowed to write their own rules or forgo the widest possible consultation with those who represent the electricity users and taxpayers who ultimately must pay the bill. This is why FOI documents that detail the extent to which energy planners will go to shape how projects are scrutinised make sobering reading. The Australian Energy Market Operator has sought permission to break the rules and modify outside scrutiny for two crucial transmission line assets, the HumeLink and VNI West projects." Weekend Australian Editorial, More scrutiny, not less on power 31 January 2024
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/more-scrutiny-not-less-on-power/news-story/7d0da9122f82e29aae9f7487b1ec670c

https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/labors-new-disinformation-campaign-backfires-after-people-submit-their-own-ads-for-factchecking-via-online-form/news-story/a9024371d5e2e3399d70ac4a0307b4c4

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/08/29/hidden-wind-turbine-decommissioning-costs-a-risk-for-farmers/

https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/opinion/bowens-strategy-to-reduce-bills-hides-360-billion-in-costs-by-2050/

https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/opinion/energy-ministers-nuclear-arguments-riddled-with-errors/

https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/video/more-misinformation-from-csiro-on-nuclear/

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/submission-to-draft-2024-integrated-system-plan/

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/how-to-build-low-cost-nuclear-lessons-from-the-world/

https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/podcast/how-to-build-low-cost-nuclear-lessons-from-the-world-2/

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/submission-to-draft-2023-24-gencost/

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/submission-to-humelink-mcc-assessment/

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/submission-to-humelink-contingent-project-application-stage-2/

https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/opinion/the-smart-energy-council-makes-two-basic-mistakes/

https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/video/australia-quietly-snuck-in-a-shadow-carbon-price/

https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/woke_act_labor_greens_government_fights_against_renewables?sfnsn=mo

This does not even include the fact that wind turbines and their too high voltage transmission lines are such a fire hazard that firefighters will NOT go near the wind turbines or the transmission lines to put out the fires that start on them because they are too dangerous. (https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-06-19/cfa-renewables-protest-volunteer-firefighters-transmission-lines/103995318)

Or the fact that wind turbines are extremely harmful to biodiversity and and refugia areas - https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/08/05/environmentalists-call-out-double-standards-between-farmers-and-wind-farms/

Or the fact that wind turbines cause negative health effects and suffering due to infrasound noise:
https://stopthesethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/schmidt-klokker-wtn-health-effects-2014.pdf
https://docs.wind-watch.org/Schmidt-Klokker-Tables.html

Wind turbines also cause crashes with small aircraft: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/620bb596e90e0710aa4b69f3/Piper_PA-22-150_G-ARDS_03-22.pdf

I also object because these wind turbines are being forced upon Australian constituents in numerous communities against their will, even though they have very clearly and soundly said NO! to wind turbines AND to Marinus Link:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/PBF6F01YT4#KFBhKnUpaSeX
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/landholders-blocking-transgrids-humelink-transmission-line-receive-ultimatum-as-forced-land-acquisitions-loom/news-story/36a6218781f3ed4c5eac498318a88d38

Therefore, I DO NOT CONSENT to this wind turbine project or ANY other wind turbine project ANYWHERE in Australia.

DCCEEW - Water project advice

Please see attached submission

The assessment of impacts on hydrology and wetlands is inadequate

Snowy 2.0 Main Works - Modification 3

Thank you for the opportunity to comment. However, the combination of the brief exhibition period and the volume of documentation submitted by the applicant constrain the scope for meaningful comment. The SSI designation of the project also suggests it is highly unlikely that the applicant will be required to significantly modify the Mod3 proposals in the light of public submissions. That is deplorable.

The project proponent claims that the proposed Mod3 works will be undertaken within the approved construction envelope for the Main Works and that all surface disturbances will be “land formed and rehabilitated”. However, Mod3 would, if approved, still result in additional areas of disturbance than would otherwise have occurred within the construction envelope. It also fails to acknowledge that there will be additional medium or long-term impacts on the integrity of the Kosciuszko National Park (KNP), visitors to the park, fauna, flora and stygofauna, and Australian tax payers.

While the Mod3 proposals are portrayed as being incremental, the overall impacts of the poorly planned and managed project are cumulative and are significantly greater than the concept outlined in the exploratory works documentation in terms of costs and environmental disturbance. It could be likened to the proverbial death of a thousand cuts for the KNP. As as example, the groundwater impacts from works associated with the additional portal for TBM4 are estimated by the applicant to be relatively minor and over a restricted area. However, when added to the overall ground water impacts of the Snowy 2.0 works as a whole , the effects are considerable.

A “reformed and rehabilitated” landscape is not the same as the original and the clearing of additional vegetation, even within the construction envelope, will have medium to long-term impacts on flora and fauna. For example, the Mod3 works will result in destruction of important habitat for the Smoky Mouse (Pseudomys fumeus) and the Eastern Pygmy Possum (Cercartetus nanus), which are listed (respectively) as endangered and vulnerable species. That alone suggests construction of the additional tunnel portal and associated spoil dump should not be allowed to proceed.

Pump-storage hydro projects theoretically have the capacity to help meet Australia’s renewable energy targets. However Snowy 2.0 is not the project to do it. It is the wrong project (because of total projected costs, including connection to the grid, the horizontal distance between the upper and lower reservoirs, the lack of adequate project planning, implementation and procurement) in the wrong place (being in the centre of the largest and most iconic national park in NSW and given the long distance from major electricity demand centres).

It is instructive to read the pros and cons of the proposed new TBM4 compared to TBM1 (Kirsten) and TBM3 (Florence). Given that Florence first ran into difficulties when the when it was barely underground and was still close to the surface (a zone where ground conditions are commonly weak and unstable, due to sub-surface weathering), and that early borehole studies identified potentially difficult ground conditions in the area of the Long Plain Fault, it would seem that evaluation and procurement procedures for TBM3 should have taken into account the likelihood of encountering less than optimal ground conditions. That they were not suggest serious shortcomings in Snowy Hydro’s assessment and decision-making procedures. While recent and more detailed drilling has more clearly identified difficult ground conditions associated with the Long Plain Fault Zone, the differences are only incrementally so.

The time has come for this project to cease being a burden on tax-payers. Accordingly, Snowy Hydro should be required to either:
• persist with the original tunnelling project(s) as per the approved main works and current budget, using TBM Florence for the whole of the Head Race Tunnel, recognising there may be time delays because of the slower than anticipated rate of drilling
• immediately cancel the whole project and use funds not already spent for rehabilitation of disturbed sites and use the balance for more economically-viable clean energy projects that are closer to major eastern seaboard load centres.

STOP RIGHT NOW WASTING OUR PUBLIC MONEY ON IDIOTIC, ECOCIDAL, WHITE ELEPHANT SNOWY 2 !!
IT’S ALL ABOUT CORPORATE SUBSIDY MINING!
A FINANCIAL PRODUCT FOR THE FAKE GREEN RENEWABULL GRAVY TRAIN - DESIGNED TO MAKE AUSTRALIA WEAK & CHINA STRONG.

WHY is such a flawed project still continuing when it is such an environmental & energy poverty disaster?
The Kosciusko National Park & the Australian people are being unjustly mistreated & harmed by this terrible failure.

Please stop wasting our money on this destructive nonsense as we are all suffering from the Government’s Cost of Living Crisis.
We need 24/7 Australian power not this flop.

Pull the plug on this outrageous Snowy 2 catastrophe!
Totally useless!
Totally unsustainable!
Totally stupid!
Total rip-off!

Nothing about Snowy 2 makes any sense.
It’s well past time to end this destructive fiasco.
Please use our money for far superior Australian Coal & Nuclear Power instead.

Snowy 2 is NOT FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
It is active Environmental Vandalism - the Antithesis of Protecting Nature & Caring for Country.

Snowy 2 is causing extensive environmental harm for a useless, weather dependent plan that is a complete waste of taxpayer’s money.

Snowy 2 MUST STOP!
Nothing about this nonsensical plan benefits Australia at all.

I object to any further work on destructive Snowy 2 as it’s majorly wrecking the Kosciusko National Park, wasting eye-watering amounts of public money on a really dumb idea that will never work & we cannot afford.

Continuing Snowy 2 makes NO sense whatsoever!

Snowy 2 needs to be cancelled to save further harm to the environment & total waste of money for nothing.
I am very unhappy that there is no opportunity for open debate on this failed venture that will change the life of all Australians for the worse.
The fact is that ‘renewables’ will never bring enough energy to supply ordinary Australians.