Current Status: Determination
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Modification includes excavating an additional adit at Marica West to facilitate progression through the Long Plain Fault Zone.
Attachments & Resources
Notice of Exhibition (1)
Modification Application (7)
Response to Submissions (3)
Agency Advice (4)
Additional Information (12)
Determination (4)
Consolidated Approval (1)
Submissions
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Snowy Monaro Community Advocates
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Snowy Monaro Community Advocates
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Lorriane Cairnes
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Lorriane Cairnes
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Castlecrag
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New South Wales
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MOD-3 Submission – Snowy 2.0 Additional Adit
https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/projects/mod-3-additional-adit
I wish to make the following comments on the Snowy 2.0 MOD-3 proposal for an additional Adit.
INTRODUCTION
Snowy Hydro 2.0 has now placed yet another major “modification” (MOD-3) on public exhibition. It is another huge tunnel (“Adit”) and associated infrastructure within the Kosciuszko National Park.
INADEQUACY OF PUBLIC EXHIBITION PERIOD
- The Public has been given just 13 days to provide comments on this very complex proposal.
- The exhibition period is inadequate.
- The proposal should be re-exhibited for at least three months.
ADDITIONAL COSTS TO TAXPAYERS
- The purpose of this proposal seems to be to give Snowy Hydro a quick go-ahead to purchase yet another Tunnel Boring Machine at huge cost, to replace the failed “Florence” TBM.
- I can find nothing in the documentation which identifies the additional costs that this MOD-3 will incur. These should include construction costs, machinery purchase including the proposed new TBM, and the additional long term restoration costs.
- An approval would presumably enable Snowy Hydro Ltd to commit huge expenditure to commissioning another TBM. The past record of the Snowy Hydro’s TBMs is unimpressive.
IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO KOSCIUSZKO NATIONAL PARK
- The damage Snowy Hydro’s project has already done to the National Park and its natural landscapes and ecosystems is irreversible and cannot ever be restored.
- The new Adit proposed would further interfere with groundwater and unique natural surface features including wetlands.
- The supporting information is voluminous but inadequate and fails to explain the cumulative and compounding impacts that this new “Adit” would have on the Kosciuszko National Park’s ecosystems and landscapes.
- The resulting spoil would add to the huge pile of waste rock being dumped in the KNP, and the spoil proposal for this MOD-3 needs to be referenced against the Main Works EIS. Dumping of the excess spoil will permanently sterilize many hectares of undisturbed park.
- Nor is there a restoration plan to remedy the impacts that this proposal would have on the landscapes and ecosystems of Kosciuszko National Park.
- Snowy 2.0 makes no comment or acceptance of long-term impacts nor the compounding effects of this and other Snowy 2.0 works.
- One can only conclude that the great Kosciuszko National Park has become an engineers’ nightmare for Snowy Hydro’s unresolved projects with scant regard for the purpose and values of this National Park.
DRAINAGE OF WETLANDS:
- Despite the claims by Snowy 2.0 that the MOD3 works will occur in the existing project footprint there has been no recognition of drainage of wetlands in the surrounding areas on Kiandra Plain, on both sides of the Snowy Mountains Highway.
- The wetlands in this area include significant and unique string bogs, the subject of much past scientific research, and they are likely to be drained and irreversibly damaged.
- The largest of these bogs is south of the junction of the Coppermine firetrail and the Snowy Mtns Highway.
- This proposal must be reviewed by expert scientists with expertise in the hydrology and ecology of wetland bogs and mires, and a public report prepared.
FAILURE OF THE SH-2 PROJECT TO PRODUCE ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY
- This latest modification proposal to the Snowy Hydro 2 project further confirms that Snowy Hydro and its Government owners have no intention, and perhaps no capability, of producing ecologically sustainable renewable energy from this project.
-Permanent and deep damage is being done to the integrity of the landscapes and ecosystems of Kosciuszko National Park by every aspect of the Snowy Hydro 2.0, from the failed tunnelling to the above-ground transmission lines, plus the extensive infrastructure scars.
- There are many ways for Australia to produce renewable energy by ecologically sustainable means, and wrecking a great National Park is NOT one of them.
MOD-3 SHOULD BE REFUSED
- The MOD-3 proposal should be refused. No number of environmental conditions attached to an approval would justify the irreversible environmental damage which will be caused by proceeding with this proposal.
CONCLUSION
This whole SH 2 project should be put on hold and a Commission of Inquiry called to consider the environmental, economic and public policy justification for its continuation.
Lorraine Cairnes
Sydney NSW
3rd September 2024
https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/projects/mod-3-additional-adit
I wish to make the following comments on the Snowy 2.0 MOD-3 proposal for an additional Adit.
INTRODUCTION
Snowy Hydro 2.0 has now placed yet another major “modification” (MOD-3) on public exhibition. It is another huge tunnel (“Adit”) and associated infrastructure within the Kosciuszko National Park.
INADEQUACY OF PUBLIC EXHIBITION PERIOD
- The Public has been given just 13 days to provide comments on this very complex proposal.
- The exhibition period is inadequate.
- The proposal should be re-exhibited for at least three months.
ADDITIONAL COSTS TO TAXPAYERS
- The purpose of this proposal seems to be to give Snowy Hydro a quick go-ahead to purchase yet another Tunnel Boring Machine at huge cost, to replace the failed “Florence” TBM.
- I can find nothing in the documentation which identifies the additional costs that this MOD-3 will incur. These should include construction costs, machinery purchase including the proposed new TBM, and the additional long term restoration costs.
- An approval would presumably enable Snowy Hydro Ltd to commit huge expenditure to commissioning another TBM. The past record of the Snowy Hydro’s TBMs is unimpressive.
IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO KOSCIUSZKO NATIONAL PARK
- The damage Snowy Hydro’s project has already done to the National Park and its natural landscapes and ecosystems is irreversible and cannot ever be restored.
- The new Adit proposed would further interfere with groundwater and unique natural surface features including wetlands.
- The supporting information is voluminous but inadequate and fails to explain the cumulative and compounding impacts that this new “Adit” would have on the Kosciuszko National Park’s ecosystems and landscapes.
- The resulting spoil would add to the huge pile of waste rock being dumped in the KNP, and the spoil proposal for this MOD-3 needs to be referenced against the Main Works EIS. Dumping of the excess spoil will permanently sterilize many hectares of undisturbed park.
- Nor is there a restoration plan to remedy the impacts that this proposal would have on the landscapes and ecosystems of Kosciuszko National Park.
- Snowy 2.0 makes no comment or acceptance of long-term impacts nor the compounding effects of this and other Snowy 2.0 works.
- One can only conclude that the great Kosciuszko National Park has become an engineers’ nightmare for Snowy Hydro’s unresolved projects with scant regard for the purpose and values of this National Park.
DRAINAGE OF WETLANDS:
- Despite the claims by Snowy 2.0 that the MOD3 works will occur in the existing project footprint there has been no recognition of drainage of wetlands in the surrounding areas on Kiandra Plain, on both sides of the Snowy Mountains Highway.
- The wetlands in this area include significant and unique string bogs, the subject of much past scientific research, and they are likely to be drained and irreversibly damaged.
- The largest of these bogs is south of the junction of the Coppermine firetrail and the Snowy Mtns Highway.
- This proposal must be reviewed by expert scientists with expertise in the hydrology and ecology of wetland bogs and mires, and a public report prepared.
FAILURE OF THE SH-2 PROJECT TO PRODUCE ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY
- This latest modification proposal to the Snowy Hydro 2 project further confirms that Snowy Hydro and its Government owners have no intention, and perhaps no capability, of producing ecologically sustainable renewable energy from this project.
-Permanent and deep damage is being done to the integrity of the landscapes and ecosystems of Kosciuszko National Park by every aspect of the Snowy Hydro 2.0, from the failed tunnelling to the above-ground transmission lines, plus the extensive infrastructure scars.
- There are many ways for Australia to produce renewable energy by ecologically sustainable means, and wrecking a great National Park is NOT one of them.
MOD-3 SHOULD BE REFUSED
- The MOD-3 proposal should be refused. No number of environmental conditions attached to an approval would justify the irreversible environmental damage which will be caused by proceeding with this proposal.
CONCLUSION
This whole SH 2 project should be put on hold and a Commission of Inquiry called to consider the environmental, economic and public policy justification for its continuation.
Lorraine Cairnes
Sydney NSW
3rd September 2024
Ian Pulsford
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Ian Pulsford
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Redbank Plains
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Queensland
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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.
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.
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Hay
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New South Wales
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Continuing Snowy 2 makes NO sense whatsoever!
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Springfield
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Queensland
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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.
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Springfield
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New South Wales
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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.
It’s well past time to end this destructive fiasco.
Please use our money for far superior Australian Coal & Nuclear Power instead.
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Kepnock
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Queensland
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Snowy 2 MUST STOP!
Nothing about this nonsensical plan benefits Australia at all.
Nothing about this nonsensical plan benefits Australia at all.
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Harefield
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New South Wales
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Pull the plug on this outrageous Snowy 2 catastrophe!
Totally useless!
Totally unsustainable!
Totally stupid!
Total rip-off!
Totally useless!
Totally unsustainable!
Totally stupid!
Total rip-off!
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KOORINGAL
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New South Wales
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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.
We need 24/7 Australian power not this flop.
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GRIFFITH
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New South Wales
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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.
The Kosciusko National Park & the Australian people are being unjustly mistreated & harmed by this terrible failure.
Save Our Surroundings Murrumbidgee
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Save Our Surroundings Murrumbidgee
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Griffith
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New South Wales
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Snowy 2 is causing extensive environmental harm for a useless, weather dependent plan that is a complete waste of taxpayer’s money.
Save Our Surroundings Riverina
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Save Our Surroundings Riverina
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Lake Albert
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New South Wales
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Snowy 2 is NOT FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
It is active Environmental Vandalism - the Antithesis of Protecting Nature & Caring for Country.
It is active Environmental Vandalism - the Antithesis of Protecting Nature & Caring for Country.
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LAKE ALBERT
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New South Wales
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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.
IT’S ALL ABOUT CORPORATE SUBSIDY MINING!
A FINANCIAL PRODUCT FOR THE FAKE GREEN RENEWABULL GRAVY TRAIN - DESIGNED TO MAKE AUSTRALIA WEAK & CHINA STRONG.
John Brush
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John Brush
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wanniassa
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Australian Capital Territory
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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.
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.
Inland Rivers Network
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Inland Rivers Network
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Dubbo
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New South Wales
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The assessment of impacts on hydrology and wetlands is inadequate
Attachments
National Parks Association of NSW
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National Parks Association of NSW
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Pyrmont
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New South Wales
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Please see attached submission
Attachments
SNOWY MONARO REGIONAL COUNCIL
Comment
SNOWY MONARO REGIONAL COUNCIL
Comment
Carol-Ann Fletcher
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Carol-Ann Fletcher
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Somerset
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Tasmania
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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.
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.
Dianne Thompson
Object
Dianne Thompson
Object
Weston
,
Australian Capital Territory
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SSI-9687-Mod-3
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SSI-9687
Assessment Type
SSI Modifications
Development Type
Electricity Generation - Other
Local Government Areas
Snowy Valleys
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Approved
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Name
David
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