Rural roads suffer under heavy construction loads. Ratepayers often fund repairs indirectly. Will the proponent underwrite all long-term maintenance costs?

Forbes Solar will contaminate and permanently sterilise this RU1 site with further likely impacts for surrounding food growing land and vital water sources.

The entombment of 270ha of RU1 productive Ag land near Forbes permanently removes present food-producing capacity of “winter cropping & pasture grazing,” with toxic contamination and soil compaction risks from 248,000 heavy metal leaching PFOS coated solar panels and filthy, extremely hazardous Lithium-ion BESS.

Flood events in flat country may inundate electrical equipment. Climate variability increases unpredictability. What assurance exists that submerged batteries will not release contaminants?

Experience elsewhere shows battery noise and cooling systems operate continuously. Rural amenity depends upon quiet nights. What enforceable noise limits apply at property boundaries?

Lightning strikes are common in summer storms. Concentrated metal infrastructure may elevate strike probability. What modelling disproves this concern?

Security fencing across 270 hectares creates barriers to stock and wildlife movement. How will emergency egress function during a fast-moving grassfire?

Imported panels may embed significant carbon from overseas manufacturing. Lifecycle emissions are rarely transparent. Has a full cradle-to-grave audit been published?

Farmers in Victoria have objected to prime land being treated as vacant space for metropolitan energy demand. Regional equity demands restraint. Why must this shire bear disproportionate infrastructure?

Transmission infrastructure can fragment wildlife corridors and shelter belts vital for stock. How will habitat disruption be measured and mitigated over decades?

The misleading 166 MW headline figure disguises a pathetic average capacity factor below 20%, meaning this 270 ha industrial complex will frequently only deliver a fraction of its claimed output — and obviously zero at night — while still requiring full grid infrastructure and imposing outrageous cost blowouts on us mistreated electricity consumers - for unnecessary, CCP controlling transmission line interconnectors - that we absolutely 💯 object to.