Winterbourne Wind Farm

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*Factually outline the Engineering Facts of how this plan meets all the Objectives Equally - of the National Electricity Law:-
Not just Targets for reducing/ likely to contribute to reducing GHG Emissions but Price, Quality, Safety, Reliability & Security of Supply of Electricity & the Reliability, Safety & Security of the National Electricity System.

As we have seen proven at Broken Hill “Wind and Solar are worse than useless in a crisis like this, because it’s detrimental to having a consistent power supply,” Mayor Tom Kennedy said.
“I’d hate to see what happens in the capital cities in a similar crisis.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/650m-in-renewable-energy-didnt-save-broken-hill-from-days-of-blackouts-after-a-storm-islanded-it/

*Provide a thorough, independent analysis of GENUINE SOCIAL LICENCE including all Rural NSW/Australians

Community Impact Survey: April-May 2024 – Property Rights Australia
https://propertyrightsaustralia.org.au/community-impact-survey-april-may-2024/

*Abide by Australian and International Environmental Standards:-
AS/NZS ISO/IEC 17021.2:2013 [ISO/IEC TS 17021-2 :2012] Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems. Part 2: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of environmental management systems

AS/NZS ISO/IEC 17021.2:2013 Clause 6.7 regarding Use of Space/Physical Attributes (Clause 6.7)
Requires knowledge of:
a. the interactions of the physical attributes (size, shape and colour) of buildings, structures and equipment with the local environment (eg, man-made structures that detract from natural ambience, nature, flora and fauna, and natural settings of the environment in which they have been placed);
b. Operational controls and techniques to manage physical attributes, such as planning and design, landscaping, use of colour to reduce intrusive impact on the environment; and
c. the monitoring of spatial planning, building and equipment requirements as well as maintenance systems and landscaping

*Biodiversity Offsets are a damaging environmental scam - becoming a trading market with no successful outcomes.
We need real transparency & demonstrative environmental benefits. The proponent can not be allowed to self-refer at any Government level.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/18/biodiversity-offsets-scheme-crisis/
Biodiversity offsets

*Prove Consistency with National Koala Recovery Plan.
The Federal Minister for Environment must STOP 🛑 approving ‘renewable’ projects that are inconsistent with the National Koala Recovery Plan.
👉Halt further destruction of endangered koala habitat. You can download a copy of the Guide here. https://tinyurl.com/5y9ddm24
👉To read the National Koala Recovery Plan, see National Recovery Plan for the Koala Phascolarctos cinereus (combined populations of Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory) (dcceew.gov.au)

*Address National Security Risks - Foreign Ownership of Critical Energy
Infrastructure

The Government has no measures to protect new energy sources from malicious actors!
https://www.senatorpaterson.com.au/news/chinas-spy-threat-to-energy-supplies

Beautifully Hackable - Irina Slav on Energy - 12/8/24
https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/beautifully-hackable?utm_campaign=email-post&utm_source=substack

"In July, Transgrid struck a deal with China’s ZTT International for the delivery of more than 17,500 kilometres of high-voltage conductors to get ahead on HumeLink and VNI West." 4th Dec 2023
https://reneweconomy.com.au/transgrid-hands-out-multi-billion-dollar-contracts-for-controversial-humelink-build/m

*Include Accurate Independent Analysis & Truthful Comparison of all Sources of Power for Reliability, Security, Affordability, Emissions, Toxic Waste Reduction & Minimal Environmental Footprint.

The 'Sunk Cost' Trickery That Makes Renewables Seem Cheaper Than They Are - 23rd July 2023.
https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/the-sunk-cost-trickery-that-makes?utm_medium=web

Energy Transition Masquerade: The $360 Billion You Pay - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0NKDozvO58

Nuclear VS Renewables: What Will It Cost? | Zoe Hiltonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw_AX9WaJ08

*Include the Proponent’s & Consultant’s Commitment to Integrity & Ethical Behaviour & their Knowledge of the Legal Consequences for any lies or deceit - ie. “confection ….. made up evidence - so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed on it”

I object to Vestas’ atrocious 118 Toxic Contaminating, Bird/Bat Torturing Winterbourne Wind Turbine Monstrosities & Filthy, FIRE 🔥 Hazardous, Incapable Battery Energy Storage System that will cause Toxic PFAS Contamination, as nobody wants this ECOCIDAL GARBAGE dumped in Australia - let alone Walcha & Uralla Shires who’ll be cursed FOREVER by these Public Health & Safety Disasters of Air, Land & Water Contaminating/Polluting Microplastics - including Bisphenol A (lethal to young children - as toxic as Blue Asbestos) shedding from Turbine Blades in a matter of only a few years, dangerous shards of sharp plastic flying off blades ensuring gullible pariah hosts & neighbouring family victims need to wear helmets on their properties for protection & children are constantly tortured - forced to endure wearing earmuffs in order to sleep.

It’s no surprise that the Fake Green RenewaBULL Solar/Wind Energy Poverty Grift & Ponzi Scheme/Scam is imploding with
Vestas struggling with their increased need for "repairs and upgrades" & Vestas saw their businesses upended by steeply rising costs for inputs like steel. In many cases, companies were left selling wind turbines at a loss, having locked in a price that was below the cost of producing and delivering the machines to customers (12/8/24.)
Shares in Vestas dropped sharply after the Danish wind turbine manufacturer narrowed its revenue and operational profitability guidance this year because of unexpected inflation and higher service business costs.
Vestas shares plunged after the outlook change was announced and ended down 7.76% (13/8/24.)

The Department & IPCN bureaucrats have scandalously NOT made any honest RenewaBULL Assessments or valid Approvals to date as they are intent on unjustly torturing rural families/communities with life threatening, toxic JUNK & destroying Agriculture by appeasing the Fake Green Carpetbaggers & Vested Interests.

Winterbourne Wind Electricity Generating Works + Battery Assessment Criteria fails to include the most basic essentials.
It is ESSENTIAL to include all of the following to be determined by REPUTABLE, PEER REVIEWED INDEPENDENT EXPERT EVIDENCE NOT the DEVELOPER VESTAS or WOKE BUREAUCRATS with VESTED INTERESTS.

Inclusion of Engineering Facts, Scientific Rigour, Integrity & Ethics for determinations is required NOT just trusting Greedy Developers & Ideologically Biased Approving Bodies.

*Determination of all Public Health & Safety Risks to Human Beings/Ecology/Ecosystems including:-
Electrical Force & Electromagnetic Radiation,
Toxic Bisphenol A (lethal to young children - as toxic as blue asbestos) shedding from Turbine Blades, Toxic Heavy Metals including Lead, Filthy BESS PFAS Contamination, Oil Leaks.
Include cumulative ‘renewable’ contamination impacts which will likely infiltrate the water table and local river systems, jeopardizing both our quality of life and broader water infrastructure.

*GROUND WATER SUPPLIES MUDDIED BY PILE DRIVING FOR THE MASSIVE WIND TURBINE BASES.
*Wind farm woes continue as Victorian turbines fail after only five years – www.cairnsnews.org - 11th April 2024
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/04/11/wind-farm-woes-continue-as-victorian-turbines-fail-after-only-five-years/

WIND TURBINES ARE A FAKE GREEN SCOURGE - SHEDDING TONNES OF MICROPLASTICS FROM WIND TURBINE BLADES (KNOWN AS ‘LEADING EDGE EROSION’) - AFTER ONLY A FEW YEARS OF OPERATION.

**Bisphenol A - a toxic chemical used in the epoxy resins that are used to make turbine blades. High speed spinning blades 300 KM/H collide with dust particles, rain and hail chipping off small particles of the resin coating.
The particles eroded from Wind Turbine blades includes epoxy resin which is 40% Bisphenol (BPA) - a frequently banned endocrine disrupter & neurotoxin” - equally as toxic as blue asbestos & lethal to young children. 11 Nov 2023

https://stopthesethings.com/category/bisphenol-a-wind-turbine-blades/

Will Bisphenol A be the PFOS of Wind Energy?
https://www.zeeland.nl/sites/default/files/digitaalarchief/IB23_b50318e9.pdf

https://bergensia.com/bisphenol-a-in-wind-turbines-damages-human-fertility/es-human-fertility/

’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-

*Factual Assessment of Increased🔥FIRE Risks, including evidence from the local Volunteer Fire Fighters, all landowners in the area, Rural Fire Fighting Pilots & Medical Experts.

Wind Turbine Fire at Redhill - 7 February 2024 - CFS
The estimated damage amount of the impacted turbine is $2.2 million.
https://www.cfs.sa.gov.au/news-media/media-alerts/wind-turbine-fire-at-redhill-7-february-2024/

A Wind Turbine has Burst into Flames last night in Portland. The wind farm operator is investigating the cause of the fire. #7NEWS 29th June 2024
https://x.com/7NewsMelbourne/status/1806869935706231003

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352158070_Safety_of_Grid_Scale_Lithium-ion_Battery_Energy_Storage_Systems

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/656f411497ae14084ad8d03a/t/66fd2383b56dbc6906390297/1727865736681/Fannon-Batteries.pdf

Bouldercombe Battery🔥Fire sparks warning for residents in regional Queensland - 26/09/23
https://www.9news.com.au/national/bouldercombe-battery-fire-sparks-warning-for-residents-in-regional-queensland/b4b3058a-cb0b-4209-a02d-6b12d80c63ac

Gateway Energy Storage System🔥Fire: Otay Mesa, CA - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7UY4ioP4VQ

Add yet another Lithium Battery🔥FIRE - this one in Scotland - Lithium Battery Recycling Centre.
https://youtu.be/d-hvsz2tyhc?si=S16_g1LWETu1pj70.

*Clarify Vestas’ Guarantee to Ensure Clean Drinking Water & No Environmental Contamination as “We have a human right to clean drinking water and an environment free of toxic load,” Dr Stops said. “Dr Orellana reminded us that Australia has ratified the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2004

*The Full Life-Cycle Embedded Energy & all Emissions is required to be factually documented - from mining materials, processing, manufacturing, transportation, road works, construction, operation, recycling & waste disposal including all components used for all parts of the plan - Turbines, BESS, Substation, Transmission Lines, Quarrying, Cement, etc.

*Accurately Document the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas of all - SF6 Emissions from the full life-cycle of Wind Turbines & BESS, Switch Gear, Circuit Breakers, etc.

Wind turbines contain the worlds most powerful green house gas, SF6. - Bergensia
https://bergensia.com/wind-turbines-contains-the-worlds-most-powerful-green-house-gas-sf6/

Why Are Massive Amounts of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Being Ferried Out into the Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard? 28/6//24
https://lindabonvie.substack.com/p/why-will-thousands-of-pounds-of-the

*Upfront Decommissioning/Remediation Bond - to cover full costs (updated in real time)of independently calculated amount with full explanation & identification of where it will be securely held.
Engineer certified, full explanation of all practical actions required to guarantee immediate clean-up after Fires, Storm Damage, Degradation, etc. & return of the site to its uncontaminated, inherent, food producing capability, including identifying immediately present, ready access to recycling & toxic waste capability & capacity apart from local Council.

*Transparently confirm the plan to Indemnify Neighbours - due to inability of neighbours to acquire adequate Public Liability Insurance because of Hazardous ‘Renewable’ Industry

*Adherence to Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act so NO Components - including Cobalt for Wind Turbines & BESS are sourced from cruelly torturous Child Slave Labour Supply Chains in the Congo, etc.

*Adherence to Paris Agreement - Taking over farmland to build facilities to produce intermittent energy is a violation of Article 2, Section 1(b) of the Paris Agreement (2015).
Article 2 1(b) of the 2015 Paris Agreement states:
“This Agreement... 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”; See: https://unfccc.int/files/essential_background/convention/application/pdf/ english_paris_agreement.pdf .

*Factually Addressing & Assessing the Serious Health Impacts of Infrasound for people & animals - including low frequency Turbine sound interference with koala calls.
This includes sleep deprivation, and other physiological impacts as reported by some individuals globally. The increasing scale of wind turbines greatly increases the risk of significant and legally consequential human health impacts.

*Noise Nuisance - Acousticians Pledge
Ensure SLR acousticians are members of the Australian Acoustical Society fulfilling their pledge to ensure that the “welfare, health and safety of the community at all times takes precedence over sectional, professional and private interests”.
It is totally unacceptable, cruel torture that children in Australia are being forced to wear ear-muffs to bed in order to sleep because of wretched Wind Turbine Monstrosities!

*Independent clarification of the average Capacity Factor of the Wind Turbines & capability of the BESS is needed in order to satisfy the aim to “increase supply of reliable, renewable energy” & to prove the reliable powering of the numbers of households stated.
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I object to the Winterbourne Wind Farm Project

I object the Winterbourne Wind Farm Amendment Report

Please consider the attached submission.
I have also attached a relevant document from the New England biodiversity Reference Group which is referred to in the submission.
Thank you.
Kate Boyd

I 100% support the approval of the Winterbourne wind farm

I Support the approval of the Winterbourne windfarm in its entirety.

These projects are not only detrimental to our health, but also the health of livestock and wildlife.
These projects will make aerial firefighting impossible in the case of paddock / bush fires, thus endangering lives.

These will destroy the environment and landscapes.

These forms of energy are not proven; they are unreliable and intermittent.