Pottinger Wind Farm

This project is an environmental disaster.

This project is not for the greater good. The public wants access to cheap abundant electricity 24/7. The volume of monstrous turbines in this area will only produce expensive intermittent energy at great cost to the environment. Stay away from agricultural land and put these turbines in the city where people believe this "renewable" rubbish. Stop filling our land with cement and imported unrecyclable toxic waste.

I am writing to express my endorsement for wind farms, specifically in the Riverina region, which I find to be an appropriate location. However, it is essential to safeguard the scenic view from the Cobb Highway that overlooks the Hay Plains. After reviewing projects within the SW REZ and observing the high demand anticipated for future access tenders, I am confident that the Pottinger Project is strategically located. Positioned sufficiently away from the Cobb Highway, it ensures the preservation of the breathtaking landscape that defines the Hay Plains. This meticulous planning showcases a conscientious effort to harmonize development with the area's natural beauty.

I would like to support the Pottinger Wind Farm
Development as it will provide a secure, renewable and environmentally acceptable way of delivering power to thousands of Australians.
Being provided by an Australian Company guarantees a quality installation, providing safe working conditions for all the people involved in the project and a secure future for its ongoing success from people who live in Australia. These factors provide enormous confidence to the community that not only will see this project installed correctly, but easily maintained, as is necessary in the future.
When one looks to the future, one is hopefully guided by the past, having learnt from years of experience of generations that have gone before us. By naming this wind farm after the Pottinger Family and by consulting the local Aboriginal Community, shows sensitivity to the local history of all Australians who occupy this part of our land. This is a project that satisfies the needs of all, while respecting their individual histories.
I sincerely hope the Pottinger Wind Farm goes ahead, providing a secure future of electricity for generations to come, in a clean, safe and sustainable way.
Yours sincerely and faithfully,
Robyn Pfeiffer.

This project possess an unacceptable fire risk. Also the risk to fire fighters when a fire starts will require them to stay away from the site of the fire and therefore the fire will take hold and will be more difficult to contain. One partial solution would be to ban the operation of the turbines on High Fire danger days.

The issue of remediation and rehabilitation does not address sufficiently the remediation that will be required following the operation of the turbines shedding toxic chemicals along with contamination from turbine fires. The developer and operator should be required to lodge a security bond with the NSW Government to cover the future cost of remediation and rehabilitation, the same that is required for other industrial uses of land such as mining.

Strongly object to all wind/solar farm projects
- Not viable for our area.
- Environmentally disruptive
- Fire risk
- Disruption to farming practices

The people of NSW and indeed Australia cannot possibly make an informed decision when the Federal government itself is not being transparent. AEMO’s plan itself does not cater for what happens of 82% is not met by 2030. We need transparent dialogue with experts from all sides of coal, nuclear and wind, solar, hydro, hydrogen, and battery. People I speak to in my electorate where these industrial factories are being built have major concerns. We need reliable, affordable, secure, commercially visible (ie what happens when the subsidies are gone), and environmentally friendly and sustainable as well as safe solutions. The government does not have a mandate for our energy. China manufacturers many of the products and have in the past placed sanctions and high tariffs on our commodities. What’s to say this won’t happen again in a very uncertain geopolitical environment?

There is no we don’t know and much more we need to know. Pause these rollouts until such time we are categorically certain we have a solid energy base load replacement.

As a business owner in the community, I fully support the Pottinger Energy Park wind farm. This project promises to stimulate our local economy by creating jobs and increasing demand for local services. The dedicated efforts to enhance our infrastructure and the Benefits Sharing Program are exactly what we need to keep our community thriving. This is a golden opportunity for economic growth that we should all get behind.

Wind & Solar so called ‘farms’ do not provide a reliable energy source.
They destroy the natural environment & in the nuclear age in the near future they will become detritus & will have to be removed at great expense to the Local Community, with the toxic Wind Turbine Blades not being able to be recycled.

These Wind ‘farms’ may appear to be of financial benefit to those who accommodate them but they risk being responsible for their extremely costly removal.
Hundreds of others will be negatively affected with pylons & cables criss-crossing adjacent lands.
The destruction of the environment will be significant & our iconic landscapes will be destroyed.

If we are to do away with Coal & Gas, the only reliable energy source is Nuclear.
When the powers that be realise that we are living in the Nuclear age & wish to remain an advanced country, much of what is planned for Hay & other districts will become obsolete.
The district will be stuck with the environmental vandalism caused by Government (taxpayer’s) heavily subsidised ‘renewable’ energy installations.

I am writing this submission to express my support for the Pottinger Energy Park, having visited the Booroorban area for both recreation and work. The development of renewable energy resources is important for environmental sustainability into the future, and this project will deliver benefits by reducing our reliance on coal and other less environmentally friendly sources of energy. The setback from the highway ensures that there is little visual impact on the landscape, yet will still allow important economic activity and job creation, as well as providing support to family farms by allowing them to diversify their income streams.

Strongly object to the project.
Stop making life harder for farmers! All the proposed projects around the area are putting extra strain on farming families.
- Too weather dependent
- Environmentally destructive
- Fire risk
- Massive, unplanned for, Toxic Waste Burden

I object to the Pottinger Wind Electricity Generating Works proposed for the Hay Plains. The Hay Plains are well known for their undisturbed views of the horizon for as far as the eye can see. The immediate environmental impacts of implementation and construction of the turbines as well as the ongoing impacts year on year will be devastating for the area, let alone destroying the well known views of the Hay Plains. Therefore, I do not wish for the 247 turbines to be constructed in the proposed area, or any area within the surrounds of the Hay Plains.

There are two general objections to all proposals to build wind and solar facilities to inject intermittent energy into the grid.

One. The ABC of intermittent energy explains that the transition to wind and solar power is impossible with current storage technology. Consequently we are approaching a tipping point when coal capacity runs down to the point where there is not be enough dispatchable capacity to meet demand on windless nights.

See attached file.

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/

The collected briefing notes that were sent to 800 state and federal pollies between 2020 and 2022.

Two .Protecting farmland.

THE PARIS AGREEMENT - 2015
Article 2
1. This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by:
b. Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production;

That means no solar projects, no wind projects, no battery projects on rural land.

It is estimated that all existing NSW coal-fired power plants will be retired by 2040. Hay has the wind resources to help the transition from fossil fuels. Great to also see that the wind farm would be Australian-owned.

"As a business owner in the community, I fully support the Pottinger Energy Park wind farm. This project promises to stimulate our local economy by creating jobs and increasing demand for local services. The dedicated efforts to enhance our infrastructure and the Benefits Sharing Program are exactly what we need to keep our community thriving. This is a golden opportunity for economic growth that we should all get behind."

I strongly endorse the Pottinger Energy Park wind farm as a project that demonstrates significant commitment to environmental conservation and offers immense potential to reduce our carbon footprint by approximately 2.8 million tonnes annually. We have a responsibility to take meaningful action to build a future powered by clean energy and this initiative not only represents a major step forward but also aligns perfectly with our community’s goals and sustainable environmental practices.

This is another Prime, example of renewable taking up prime farming land ,At the cost of the community in surrounding areas
These Wind Farms come, at a great cost to the tax payer , What are they gonna do with all these turbines? When they have completed their lifespan landfill that never will be usable again
It’s about time all governments, authorities started looking at nuclear as a positive electricity supply and stop destroying our natural landscapes and the communities around these Renewable energy eyesores

The location of the project is sensible and is in cooperation with a landholder(s). This project will attract significant investment very much needed for regional Australia. It will also have ongoing financial input to the local economy. Renewable projects should be part of our energy requirements mix and will compliment base load power generation in whichever form that takes into the future to ultimately make energy reliable and affordable

I object to this project for a number of reasons:
- environmental impact to the migrating birds in this area with birds traveling south to Yanga National Park and the rice fields. The Australasian Bittern is one such bird that is endangered and will be affected by this.
- the harvesting of wind in this area is very intermittent. Having lived in the area for more than 40 years and having researched ways of going off grid you definitely wouldn't pick it as a reliable power source.
- power should be generated much closer to the people requiring it. The cost of transmitting power great distances is enormous.

I support Pottinger Wind Farm given its location has a minimal impact from both an environmental & visual amenitily perspective.
Combined with being in the renewable energy zone and adjacent to the existing transmission network the location makes it perfect to build new generation capacity as our nation transitions from existing non renewable energy generation.

This project is a necessary project to deliver NSW and Australian objectives at decarbonising the energy grid. It is proposed in an ideal location, and should proceed as proposed.