Sundown Solar Farm

I wish to object to Application SSD-8911. Swan Vale is prime agricultural land and I feel this project has the potential to be disruptive in many ways. The first is the proposed road usage. Spring Mountain and Sturmans Roads are the main access routes for the local Swan Vale community. They connect the residents to the two main town centres and also serve to move cattle and livestock. These are quiet rural roadways, I am not confident they will cope with the extreme increase in traffic, but mostly I am concerned the heavy traffic required for construction will negatively impact the health, wellbeing and the livelihoods of the local community. This significant increase in noise and dust well as the safety implications of a country road not built for the heavy usage should not be overlooked. Secondly, I am concerned about the possible environmental implications of this project. The Swan Vale area is classified RU1 Primary Production, and Sundown Solar covers over 2000 hectares of this fertile farming land. The large scale clearing for such a project does threaten the local biodiversity and as such, I question the location choice for this solar farm.

"I strongly object to this development on prime food producing land. These companies have no right to build these types of factories in the middle of our farm land. When will governments wake up to the toxic contamination that is going to make our ability to produce food for ourselves. All of this type of power generation does not work on a large scale as has been proven overseas."