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South Coree Battery Energy Storage System

Berrigan Shire

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The construction, operation and decommissioning of a battery energy storage system with a capacity of 80 MW / 320 MWh, and associated infrastructure.

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Name Withheld
Object
Kepnock , Queensland
Message
Samsung C&T’s CCP reliant BESS disaster is totally incompatible with the Riverina’s essential, irreplaceable food production and Australia’s national interest.

It embeds foreign-dependent technology, filthy, high risk and extremely poisonous, life threatening, Lithium-ion chemical structures, as well as destabilising the grid through CCP control of intermittent inputs which massively increase electricity prices.

Australia already possesses naturally plentiful, reliable, affordable and secure, 24/7 base-load Coal power resources that stable nations like ours must rely on.

This project is not for the greater good as it actively moves us away from essential energy security, food security and national security.
Name Withheld
Object
GRIFFITH , New South Wales
Message
Samsung C&T’s toxic proposal is obscene as it sacrifices essential, irreplaceable Riverina land and water security to host a life-threatening catastrophe that cannot deliver base-load power reliably on demand, affordably or securely.

Global data shows BESS sites have caused fires, mass evacuations, and significant contamination.

Australia must immediately strengthen its sovereign energy systems, not expose communities to hazardous imported, CCP reliant junk.
Name Withheld
Object
Springfield , New South Wales
Message
Samsung C&T’s BESS disaster introduces unacceptable toxic risks to the Riverina: hazardous battery fires, poisonous emissions, heavy-metal leakage, and structural instability during fault conditions.

Fake Green, Energy Depriving, Industrialised Solar/Wind Electricity Generating Works & manipulative BESS like this taxpayer/consumer rip-off requires massive subsidies while driving energy poverty.

Australia’s future depends on our own, stable, independent base-load Coal generation — not the CCP’s fragile, hazardous, intermittent and sabotaging rubbish!
Save Our Surroundings Hay
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Hay , New South Wales
Message
Samsung C&T’s POISONOUS BESS BOMB MUST NOT BE APPROVED IN OUR FOOD PRODUCING RIVERINA because industrial battery storage greatly increases the risk of highly toxic plume incidents, poisonous runoff, irreversible ecological damage and public health and safety disasters.

Multiple international reviews show that fragile, weather dependent, intermittent ‘renewable’ - battery grids correlate with declining industrial output including the demise of whole industries as well as skyrocketing household energy costs that we are already unjustly suffering hardship from.

Australia’s sovereign, base-load Coal Power and a future Nuclear industry is the only rational direction.
Name Withheld
Object
Hay , New South Wales
Message
I completely reject this dangerous and illogical proposal for our healthy and productive Riverina as it greatly compromises public safety through the introduction of highly reactive lithium-based battery systems that carry highly toxic, substantial fire and explosion potential.

Incapable, intermittent ‘renewables’ that depend on the weather and Communist China’s production and control are inherently unreliable, insecure and extensively weaken Australia’s energy independence and security.

Our own plentiful and efficient Coal and Nuclear power is essential to provide national - energy security and far safer, more stable, and more economical energy outcomes.
Name Withheld
Object
LEETON , New South Wales
Message
This toxic Samsung C&T plan threatens the Riverina’s long-term viability by industrialising precious rural land and contaminating vital water systems with extremely hazardous compounds that degrade ecosystems, weaken grid security, and undermine economic resilience.

Independent evidence shows intermittent systems destabilise markets and cause the demise of countries.

Why is the authoritarian Australian Government so determined to harm us by depriving us of our own, well proven, sovereign power resources - which must remain the anchor of our national stability.
Name Withheld
Object
LEETON , New South Wales
Message
I object to Samsung C&T’s unethical, core components being typically sourced through slave labour supply chains that carries seriously detrimental geopolitical, environmental, and ethical consequences.

Industrial lithium-ion BESS introduce persistent pollution, fire hazards, and highly toxic, irrreversible residue for the vital water sources and food growing land in the Riverina.

CCP reliant batteries weaken Australia - sabotaging
our electricity grid and depriving us of national security.
Name Withheld
Object
Cunninyeuk , New South Wales
Message
This toxic contaminating Samsung C&T BESS plan does not belong anywhere in the Riverina - let alone midst food production and vital water supplies.

This highly poisonous facility threatens community health, agricultural land, and ecological integrity through its concentration of volatile chemicals and fire-prone materials.

Intermittent Solar, Wind generation with incapable, bankruptingly costly batteries is incompatible with the needs of industry, hospitals, and essential services.

Australia must immediately strengthen — not weaken — its own baseload coal power foundation before the CCP flicks the switch on their ruinable rort that’s wrecking Australia’s Grid, our irreplaceable soil and water, precious ecology and economic prosperity.
Name Withheld
Object
CUNNINYEUK , New South Wales
Message
Samsung C&T’s South Coree BESS offers no long-term benefit.
It introduces fire risk, highly toxic contamination pathway and dangerous waste dumps for our Riverina food bowl, as well as extreme dependency on insecure, hostile CCP supply chains that enable remote disablement and sabotage.

Industrialised RUINABLES are a complete failure - unable to provide stable power and ultimately lead to ever higher costs and economic suicide.
Reliable 24/7 baseload power from our plentiful coal resources is essential to maintain food security, restore energy security and urgent national security.
Name Withheld
Object
Swan Hill , Victoria
Message
South Coree BESS planned by shonky Samsung C&T is an unacceptable threat to public safety, agricultural integrity, biodiversity, national sovereignty, and economic stability.
Its toxic waste, fire risks, contamination potential, and reliance on intermittent solar input are incompatible with a strong, prosperous Australia.
Our nation must prioritise Australia’s dependable coal and future nuclear power — not incapable and hazardous industrial battery compounds reliant on the hostile CCP.
Name Withheld
Object
MOULAMEIN , New South Wales
Message
NO WAY is menacing Samsung C&T’s Toxic South Coree Battery dump or any other industrialised RenewaBULL junk welcome anywhere in the SW.
WE DO NOT CONSENT to this energy depriving, environmentally destructive, highly toxic poisoning of our Riverina land, our essential water and us - the people!
Putting Fire hazardous BESS within 500 m of Mulwala Canal is totally irresponsible and nonsensical!
Our children and grandchildren’s Intergenerational Equity is being gutted by greedy, money hungry carpetbaggers & pariah hosts who are selling us all out to CCP control and servitude.
Save Our Surroundings Redbank Plains
Object
Redbank Plains , Queensland
Message
We oppose this South Coree BESS in the Riverina’s food bowl on the grounds that its operational risks — including thermal runaway, gas venting, and toxic extinguishing chemicals — are incompatible with community safety.

Renewable-battery grids require constant backup and inflate electricity costs.

Returning to reliance on Australia’s base-load coal power capabilities offer far superior reliability and protection of biodiversity as well as security from hostile actors.
Name Withheld
Object
LAKE ALBERT , New South Wales
Message
The Filthy, FIRE Hazardous South Coree BESS BOMB planned by Samsung C&T has toxic, life-threatening implications, irreversible contaminating impacts for this productive RU1 land, vital water sources, biodiversity and the public - the antithesis of Protecting Nature/Caring for Country & is ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

Contaminating BESS are totally inappropriate for the Riverina - well known for it’s great, healthy produce - grown on uncontaminated RU1 land like this irreplaceable site - which has been irrigated & used for cropping for at least the last 100 years.

Dangerous BESS chemicals like Hydrofluoric Acid & Bis-FASI PFAS will have irreversible toxic smoke and residue impacts - POISONING THE MULWALA CANAL which facilitates this productive area & runs to the western & northern sides of the BESS site - within ONLY 500 m.
This would be such an extensive disaster as the Mulwala Canal is the largest irrigation canal in the Southern Hemisphere & supplies the southern Riverina towns of Berrigan, Finley, Bunnaloo & Wakool.
Poisonous impacts would also extend to the connected RAMSAR BARMAH-MILLEWA WETLAND, the onsite farm dam and MURRAY DARLING BASIN - with seriously detrimental consequences for all biodiversity & human beings.

Despite the fact that the cumulative impacts are terrible & completely unacceptable with two other BESS projects proposed in close proximity, namely the Finley BESS & the Berrigan BESS - as well as the Toxic Contaminating, Heavy-Metal leaching, PFOS coated Finley Solar Electricity Generating Works only 1 km north east - there is a plethora of RUIN-A-BULL JUNK being fast tracked for the Riverina/SW as if the health and welfare of rural human beings/families doesn’t matter one bit.
It actually appears that the irresponsible authorities are deliberately trying to eliminate our agricultural livelihoods & us!

As Samsung C&T’s South Coree BESS shows “a lack of care that demonstrates reckless disregard for the safety or lives of others, which is so great it appears to be a conscious violation of other people's rights to safety” - NONE of these poisonous & astronomically costly, incapable BESS BOMBS should EVER be approved!

The greedy desire of generators and networks to rip off energy consumers by manipulating the market & the controlling CCP to harm and supplant Australia - are both being fulfilled by a complicit Regulator who’s ignoring Engineering Facts & just parroting the delusional Energy Minister’s RenewaBULL Swindle & Interconnector Nightmare.

There has been a total lack of adequate surveys regarding EPBC Listed Threatened Species/MNES - with none at all carried out by the proponent for the present Endangered Sloanes Froglet or Fish

HYDROLOGY & RAMSAR WETLAND:
BARMAH-MILLEWA WETLAND (the largest river red gum forest in the world which makes a significant contribution to biodiversity) is connected to the vital MULWALA IRRIGATION CANAL which plays a crucial role in the wider MURRAY-DARLING BASIN ECOSYSTEM & PRODUCTIVITY OF THIS AREA.

THREATENED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES:
Native Grassland, Rytidosperma & Vittadinia Forbs, Western Grey Box Tall Grassy Woodland.

THREATENED EPBC LISTED FLORA SPECIES:
•Spear Grass (Austrostipa wakoolica)- Endangered
•Slender Darling Pea (Swainsona murrayana)- Vulnerable

THREATENED EPBC LISTED FAUNA SPECIES:
•Sloanes Froglet (Crinia sloanei)- Endangered
•Corben's Long-eared Bat (Nyctophilus corbeni)- Vulnerable
•Nunivak Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) - Vulnerable

THREATENED EPBC LISTED FISH SPECIES:
•Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii)- Vulnerable

MIGRATORY SPECIES:
•Australian Painted Snipe - Endangered, Migratory
Usually found in shallow inland wetlands like the significant Barmah-Millewa Wetland connected to the vital Mulwala irrigation Canal which plays a crucial role in the wider Murray-Darling Basin ecosystem & productivity of this area.
•Latham’s Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) - Migratory, Vulnerable
•Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)- Migratory

Detrimental Impacts include:
•Clearing for construction - habitat loss, trampling, loss of individuals
•Reduction in threatened community - extent & integrity
•displacement
•Injury or mortality
•key threatening processes from the proposal include soil and water contamination, invasion of key emerging weeds, creation of barriers to fauna movement & the generation of excessive dust, light, noise, etc.

FILTHY, TOXIC CONTAMINATING, FIRE HAZARDOUS. INCAPABLE, WEATHER DEPENDENT SOUTH COREE BESS BOMB WILL NEVER FULFIL ITS CLAIMS TO:
*Provide new industries and opportunities to Finley and the broader region.
*Facilitate energy shifting or level out the imbalances between supply demand, especially during peak demand periods.
*Improve voltage support and improved power quality.
*Provide stored electricity, to supply the Australian grid closer to main consumption areas.
*Better integrate the contribution of renewables.
*Reduce energy wastage (curtailment.)
ALL LIES & DECEPTION!

References:
**’Coastal Wetland Deposition of Cathode Metals From the World’s Largest Lithium-ion Battery Fire.’
(Moss Landing Fire)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25972-8#Tab1

**👉🏻See the SOCIAL LICENCE LAUNDERING - all the LIES & PROPAGANDA FROM THE SOLAR/WIND INDUSTRY ITSELF = 👉🏻NOT SO CLEAN👈’CLEAN ENERGY COUNCIL’ in their totally disingenuous
‘CLEAN ENERGY CHARTER’
See the List of Companies - the Horsepower Behind all the Toxic Contamination & Environmental Destruction!
https://cleanenergycouncil.org.au/getmedia/38729138-a3dd-4fc2-b761-73c31ab55ba3/best-practice-charter_summary-report_2025.pdf
Save Our Surroundings Riverina
Object
Lake Albert , New South Wales
Message
WE OBJECT TO NON-LOCAL, NON-AUSTRALIAN SAMSUNG C&T’s SOUTH COREE BESS BOMB & the CUMULATIVE IMPACTS of the whole FAKE GREEN, RUIN-A-BULL RORT that’s nothing but an ENERGY DEPRIVING, ECOCIDAL DISASTER for the RIVERINA - POISONING☠️the PUBLIC, OUR LAND, WATER AND BIODIVERSITY.

Are the Government & Vested Interests DELIBERATELY trying to kill us?☠️

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/asbestos-wind-turbine-renewable-energy-health-safety-goldwind/106032506

Stay safe and leave it to the experts this National Asbestos Awareness Week | SafeWork NSW  24/11/2025
https://www.safework.nsw.gov.au/news/safework-media-releases/stay-safe-and-leave-it-to-the-experts-this-national-asbestos-awareness-week

Second company confirms asbestos present in imported lift brake pads at wind farm - ABC News - 27/11/2025
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-27/asbestos-wind-turbines-renewables-import-goldwind/106058220

Andrew Weiderman - Steve Price - Sky News - Google Search 27/11/2025
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=andrew+weiderman+-+steve+price+-+Sky+News&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-au&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:32b6e5d3,vid:OnsZ55Nq4AQ,st:0

Third renewable energy company discovers asbestos in wind farm turbine lifts - ABC News - 28/11/2025
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/call-for-border-force-review-asbestos-in-imported-products/106076286

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/andrew-twiggy-forrests-1bn-wind-farm-confirms-asbestos-found-in-new-turbines/news-story/f8f4e5818f915b543d8a2b999284632f

🛑STOP🛑THE GOVERNMENT’S WAR ON FARMERS!!

Not only will Samsung C&T’s reckless Lithium-ion BESS BOMB’s THERMAL RUNAWAY inevitably cause irreversible, life-threatening, hazardous smoke billowing for days over the Riverina’s highly productive RU1 Agricultural land & vital Mulwala Canal, but dangerous residue laden with highly toxic chemicals - including poisonous Bis-FASI PFAS Forever Chemical & Hydrofluoric Acid will also consequentially & irreversibly result.

Devastating CUMULATIVE IMPACTS are already approved & planned to extensively CURSE the Riverina area everywhere WITHOUT SOCIAL LICENCE - AGAINST OUR WILL - WITH NO CONSENT.

This is just the beginning of the NEVER-ENDING, FAKE GREEN GRAVY TRAIN with a multitude of greedy, ‘political’ shills - including ex P.Ms - feeding at this bottomless, Taxpayer funded, Vested Interest trough of the RenewaBULL Energy Poverty Grift & Ponzi Scam.

Just imagine all the National Security risks associated with this Trojan Horse of pathetically fragile, incapable, CCP reliant JUNK strewn all around Australia - especially as the PREDATORY TransGrid/ElectraNet combo ‘Project Energy Connect’ SABOTAGES THE GRID BY PLUGGING US INTO THE STATE GRID OF CHINA🇨🇳 - the CCP’s🇨🇳ASEAN POWER GRID AGENDA.
One flick of the switch = GRID LOCK!!😳

Of course, considering the CLIMATE CHANGE AUTHORITY CHAIR’s RECKLESS, NSW ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE GOAT TRACK’S A TOTAL SHAMBLES - it’s unsurprising considering environmental vandals are running this experimental show - with dominating & destructive Cheung Kong Infrastructure spin-off Spark Infrastructure & Predatory TransGrid controlling dodgy EnergyCo!

Whilst the most credible, independent Experts have long exposed Predatory TransGrid & the complicit Regulator’s debunked ISP & related ongoing failures - the very pertinent DISPUTE FILED WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ENERGY REGULATOR AGAINST PREDATORY TRANSGRID is a breath of fresh air for all of us being ripped off & tortured by this untrustworthy, out of control, self-serving Network operator ->

“On 13 August 2025, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) received a notice of dispute from the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) disputing the conclusions of Transgrid’s Meeting system strength requirements in NSW Project Assessment Conclusions Report (PACR). 

The PACR was published on 14 July 2025, for the Meeting system strength requirements in NSW Regulatory Test for Transmission (RIT-T). The notice of dispute contends that Transgrid has not correctly applied the RIT-T in that it has not complied with the National Electricity Rules (NER) clause 5.15.2 in identifying credible options.”

No wonder the NON-independent, complicit Regulator - who relentlessly parrots ideological propaganda directly from delusional Energy Ministers - is in a twist - taking extra time to manufacture yet another Garbage In Garbage Out excuse to weasel out of the cold hard facts of Electrical Engineering reality:

“On 8 September 2025 the AER extended the time to make a dispute resolution determination by 60 days under clause 5.16B(d) of the NER, because of the complexity of the issues involved.”

Predatory TransGrid’s diabolical, Vested Interest Experimentation on the public - enabled by the complicit Regulator - at the behest of idiotic Energy Minister ideologues - led to the extended Broken Hill Blackout Disaster - with the same outcome for all of NSW just an accident waiting to happen.

Whilst the Greens/Labor members of the recent Senate Witch Hunt - ‘Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy’ strangely tried to criticise our use of AI whilst DCCEEW make it very clear that they themselves use it, and totally wasted their time trying to dishonestly smear rural communities & independent ‘Expert’ truth tellers instead of seeking factual information for their Inquiry, these Senators have disgraced themselves with their brazen deception, vile manner & rudeness in relentlessly targeting & falsely labelling the RenewaBULL Energy objecting witnesses with all manner of name calling & unjustified condemnation.

The propaganda unit of ABC Riverina certainly deserved a grilling as they relentlessly disseminate Fake Green propaganda/misinformation on behalf of the CCP, the gullible, pariah Hosts & complicit Councils as well as advocating at Taxpayer expense for all the greedy Vested Interests & the deluge of well funded pro-‘renewable’ bodies so disingenuously claiming to represent rural communities.

With ‘Secret Energy Business” deliberately excluding the public - being orchestrated by THE ENEMY🤢🤑🤮 our Social Licence & Voice is being usurped by the likes of HAY & Edward River Council, RE-Alliance, Regional Development Australia Riverina, Energy Charter, Farmers for Climate Action, Community Power Agency, Riverina Murray Energy Accord (claiming “to get a fairer deal for community,”) Doctors for the Environment, ‘Right to Host RE’ NSW Farmers hierarchy, Woke CWA hierarchy, NFF (Not for Family Farmers,) Grattan Institute, NEXT Economy, CEC, Smart Energy Council, IEEFA Australia, etc., etc. - all given primacy by complicit mainstream media.
Worst of all in the Riverina has been the insufferably biased, Fake News ABC Riverina/NSW Country Hour with Hay’s developer prioritising Riverine Grazier also omitting & curtailing vital community awareness about the Reckless RenewaBULL Rort & TransGrid’s seriously detrimental Nightmare that the locals & all Australians deserve to be made fully aware of.

It’s about time that the parasitic Solar/Wind Industry is called to account along with all their dodgy advocates & those who are approving the most egregious, underhanded & evil scandal of the century.
Of course, Renew Economy - the chief of adnauseam swill - is frequently whipping up misinformation & relaying false accusations - like a protection racket for the dodgy Developers, big CONservation Foundations & Fake Green Pariah Hosts - seemingly designed to intimidate the objectors - who are simply exposing the truth that kindergarten children can easily comprehend & anyone with eyes can clearly see.

Let’s see the well funded Renew Economy provide credible, independent research - the peer reviewed scientific determination the Government has failed to do - ADDRESSING ASBESTOS & BISPHENOL A shedding from WIND TURBINES, TOXIC HEAVY METALS leaching into our FOOD BOWLS from PFOS COATED CHINESE SOLAR PANELS & HYDROFLUORIC ACID & Bis-FASI PFAS contaminating LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS - like this South Coree BESS ‘BOMB.’

Renew Economy should also make themselves relevant by providing ‘Documented Reassurance’ from their Solar/Wind Industry - of all their well compensated Hosts - including the confirmed details of their Upfront Decommissioning & Remediation Bond Payments held in Safe Trust to GUARANTEE that the Local Council/Community isn’t left in the lurch - bearing the RISKY MORAL HAZARD forced on them by the Government & complicit IPCN stooges - of irreversible Toxic Contamination - the POISONING☠️OF OUR LIFE-SUSTAINING LAND, VITAL WATER SYSTEMS, PRECIOUS BIODIVERSITY & THE PUBLIC from degraded, storm/FIRE🔥damaged & abandoned Swindle Factories.
☠️NO SOLAR/WIND/BESS HOST HAS THE RIGHT TO EVER DO THAT!☠️

REFERENCES:
**’Forever chemicals’ used in Lithium Ion Batteries Threaten Environment, Research Finds | Lithium-ion batteries | The Guardian 14/7/24
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/14/forever-chemicals-lithium-ion-batteries-environment

**Safety of Grid Scale Lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems
“The scale of Li-ion BESS energy storage envisioned at “mega scale” energy farms is unprecedented and requires urgent review. The explosion potential and the lack of engineering standards to prevent thermal runaway may put control of “battery fires” beyond the knowledge, experience and capabilities of local Fire and Rescue Services. 
BESS present special hazards to fire-fighters….”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352158070_Safety_of_Grid_Scale_Lithium-ion_Battery_Energy_Storage_Systems

**Grid Scale Batteries & Fire Risk
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/656f411497ae14084ad8d03a/t/66fd2383b56dbc6906390297/1727865736681/Fannon-Batteries.pdf

**Disaster at Moss Landing: The Risk of Battery Storage - YouTube - 16/1/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuTaZFQA18E
Save Our Surroundings Riverina
Object
Lake Albert , New South Wales
Message
p.2 References continued ->

**https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/20/massive-green-battery-plant-catches-on-fire-again-weeks-after-major-toxic-blaze/

**"Coastal wetland deposition of cathode metals from the world’s largest lithium-ion battery fire".
(Moss Landing BESS FIRE) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25972-8#Tab1

**https://localnewsmatters.org/2025/02/13/environmental-tests-reveal-elevated-levels-of-toxic-metals-since-moss-landing-battery-fire/

**https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/environmental-tests-reveal-battery-metals-around-20163514.php

**https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/elevated-levels-heavy-metals-elkhorn-slough-lithium-battery-facility-fire/

**Battery recycling plant explodes - twice. (What it means for you.) | Auto Expert John Cadogan - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-nzOJ01Fkc

**Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Risks & Extinguisher Limitations
1.CSIRO ActivFire® Advisory Note AN‑004
CSIRO explicitly states it "has not and will not certify … that any fire extinguisher can effectively extinguish a Li‑Ion battery fire."
Verification Services

**”There is a general lack of guidance and provisions in building codes, standards, and legislation in relation to safety to address the potential risks from these emerging technologies. Part of the problem is that we do not yet know enough about their probability of failure, their mechanisms of failure and potential consequences of failure.”
https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=9402

“PFAS Contamination is a Serious Issue that Needs Immediate Attention”.

**COMMONWEALTH PFAS BAN
Some types have been found to be toxic to human health and the environment. In its most definitive regulatory action taken to date, the Commonwealth has effectively banned the import, use and manufacture of some of the more prominent types of PFAS (PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS) from 1 July 2025.
(21 Feb 2024)
Name Withheld
Object
Swan Hill , Victoria
Message
I completely reject Samsung C&T’s poisonous ‘ASBESTOS OF THE FUTURE’ Bis-FASI BESS plan because the RenewaBULL Rort is a ‘Law Unto Itself’ - reliant on unethically produced infrastructure that includes leaching toxic heavy metals, PFAS forever chemicals that are banned in Australia as well as dangerous hydrofluoric acid when burnt - which will destroy essential agricultural production and safe water quality that is the life blood of the Riverina.

Independent research consistently shows that battery energy storage sites create significant environmental and chemical liabilities while delivering unstable, intermittent output.

Australia already has the means to be a world leader in secure, efficient, well-proven coal power — whilst this stupid, China reliant plan defies all these essential qualities.
Name Withheld
Object
Swan Hill , Victoria
Message
Samsung C&T South Coree BESS plan is fundamentally unsafe due to the concentration of flammable materials, toxic coolants, and hazardous electrical systems which DO NOT BELONG IN OUR HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE, UNCONTAMINATED RIVERINA or anywhere else.
Why is the Government so determined to ruin Agriculture and destroy our soil heritage, life-sustaining water supplies and our children’s future - just so the evil vested interest carpetbaggers can rip everyone off so badly!

Intermittent solar, wind, battery swindle factories impose instability on the grid and cause skyrocketing energy bills and cost of living hardship.

Australians deserve new HELE Coal Power Stations ASAP for reliable, affordable, secure and clean, sovereign, base-load power instead of this CCP reliant, toxic disaster.
Name Withheld
Object
Tyntynder South , Victoria
Message
The RenewaBULL Rort is a complete scam that’s all about greed and control - the opposite to caring for the environment/the planet - nothing but widespread ecological destruction, a massive Land Grab and Blackout future as a vassal state for China.

All these parasites like Samsung C&T need
to get outa the Riverina/Australia - STOP deceiving the public and ripping us off with fake green subsidies for such diabolical plans that will cause catastrophic harm by poisoning our communities.

With the nearby Mulwala Canal being the largest irrigation canal in the Southern Hemisphere - which we all rely on for growing essential food for Australia and the world - South Coree BESS puts all that and our livelihoods at serious risk.
STOP THE GOVERNMENT’S WAR ON FARMERS!



largest irrigation canal in the Southern Hemisphere
Name Withheld
Object
Redbank Plains , Queensland
Message
South Coree BESS planned by parasitic Samsung C&T is totally unacceptable as it exposes the Riverina food producing region to hazardous materials, creates toxic waste liabilities, and undermines the stability of the national grid.
Countries reliant on battery-backed, intermittent solar/wind experience energy poverty and industrial decline as well as cyber security implications that arise from reliance on CCP produced components - which will cripple Australia.
Australia should not repeat their mistakes when better Australian power options like coal and future nuclear power exist.
Murray Irrigation
Comment
DENILIQUIN , New South Wales
Message
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Application Number
SSD-77238990
Assessment Type
State Significant Development
Development Type
Electricity Generation - Other
Local Government Areas
Berrigan Shire

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Name
Nicholas Kumar