I support the workers camp being on farming land as it creates less impact on housing in Jerilderie.
Being situated well out of town is a good idea. The support will give the town a much needed boost creating jobs.

I believe the project will be better for the land to generate electricity than a coal mine. Coal mines rear up large chunks of land where Turbines are spread at quite a distance from each turbine and the land can still be used for farming.
Thank you

I support the project

The project is a welcome relief to the local communities of Jerilderie and surrounding towns, that have been shrinking for decades. The local primary school has under 20 kids once had over 100.
These projects enable local business and community services to stay open in the future.
Thank you

I support the Yanko Delta Wind Farm project. I personally know one of the farmers involved and understand how important opportunities like this can be for local farming families and small rural communities.
Farming can be unpredictable, and projects like wind farms help provide a stable additional income that allows farmers to keep their land productive and continue supporting their families. It also helps keep farms in local hands instead of being sold off when times get tough.
Developments like this also bring jobs and spending into small towns, which supports local businesses and services. Rural communities often miss out on large investments, so projects like the Yanko Delta Wind Farm can make a real difference.
At the same time, wind energy is an important part of creating cleaner electricity for the future. Supporting projects like this helps both regional communities and the broader transition to renewable energy.
For these reasons, I believe the Yanko Delta Wind Farm should be supported.

We object to Origin’s Toxic Contaminating and irreversibly destructive Yanco Delta Bird/Bat Blender.
This proposed Swindle Factory is an environmental time bomb.
208 turbines, BESS facilities, and 33,000 hectares of industrialisation will contaminate life-sustaining soil and water with Bisphenol A, PFAS, and asbestos.
Origin claim “minimal impact,” yet these chemicals are persistent, bioaccumulative, and irreversible.
The local rivers, irrigation systems, and groundwater face permanent PFAS, BPA, Hydrofluoric Acid, Asbestos and Heavy Metal contamination.
This is unclean, unsustainable, toxic contaminating industrialisation of prime agricultural land under the guise of fake green “renewables.”

I support all the the modifications. The Yanco Delta Wind Farm will provide a welcome boost to the local economy. When the project is built and operational it will provide 30 permanent staff jobs. Our local schools have had declining numbers of students attending for many years. Jerilderie will welcome the additional student numbers.
The camp will host and provide essential onsite worker accomodation for 850/895 people building the Yanco Delta Wind Farm. The surrounding towns have very little available accomodation. Without the onsite worker camp site the project would not function efficiently.

Origin used to be trustworthy & credible until they went WOKE & totally disingenuous.
They know full well that Eraring COAL is essential and financially viable.
They also know that Yanco Delta Swindle Factory is totally disingenuous, the antithesis of clean, cheap, reliable and secure energy - a total rip-off of electricity consumers and absolute curse to the SW FARRER Electorate who’ll be voting for ONE NATION because the Climate Change Department and Swindle Factories are on their hit list!👏

We categorically reject and condemn Origin Energy’s Yanco Delta Wind SWINDLE FACTORY – Modification 2
This project is a toxic, predatory industrial incursion into productive rural communities that flagrantly prioritises corporate gain over human, environmental, and national interests.

1. NSW Planning Failure & Regulatory Negligence
NSW planners have never set foot on the site, failing basic due diligence while approving industrial-scale wind and battery infrastructure on prime agricultural land.
Predatory TransGrid and ACEREZ operations, including worker camps are receiving unlimited diesel, water, and aggregate under emergency services priority, while local food producers and communities are unjustly rationed and deprived.
This constitutes systemic mistreatment of rural NSW/Australia.
The NSW Energy Minister’s disgraceful mockery of upfront Decommissioning/Remediation Bonds as a “tax on renewables” demonstrates willful avoidance of responsibility for the inevitable environmental catastrophe.

2. Environmental & Public Health Devastation
Biodiversity: 1,176+ hectares of native vegetation destroyed; threatened ecological communities and species permanently displaced.
Toxic contamination: Turbines she’d Bisphenol A, PFAS, asbestos, and BESS units leak toxic contaminants and releasing lethal hydrogen fluoride gas when they catch fire.
Wake effects dry out landscapes, increasing fire hazards.
Cumulative impacts: Yanco Delta + Dinawan Wind/Solar + Argoon Wind = irreversible contamination of soil, water, and biodiversity, including the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers, Yanco Creek, and numerous, essential irrigation channels.
No credible waste or recycling plan exists for turbine blades or lithium-ion batteries.

3. Social & Community Harm
Transient workforce influx from onsite Temporary Worker Accommodation (TWA) threatens the local community, public safety, and social infrastructure.
Visual, noise, and dust pollution disrupt local life—turbines visible from Jerilderie Racecourse are totally unacceptable let alone the seriously detrimental noise and infrasound health impacts for neighbouring families and agricultural workers in the vicinity.
Local consultation has been deceptive or absent, with claims of cheap, reliable energy entirely false.

4. Economic & Energy Security Failings
Intermittent wind power has an average capacity factor of a pathetic 30%, requiring 100% fossil fuel backup.
Promised economic benefits are illusory; more toxic contaminating, pathetically intermittent wind factories and incapable, filthy BESS do not ever lower electricity prices, as proven by independent experts.
Australia’s food security energy security and national security is being shockingly jeopardised, relying on China-dependent supply chains for turbines and BESS components that can be remotely disabled.

5. Legal, Strategic & Ethical Breaches
The project flouts the Four Principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development: precautionary principle ignored, intergenerational equity violated, biodiversity conservation dismissed, and resource efficiency misrepresented.
No independent oversight or lifecycle regulation exists for imported toxic materials.
Official correspondence from ABF/DCCEEW confirms high-risk chemicals are entering Australia without essential regulation and legislation - leaving communities at the mercy of corporate negligence.
The most credible, independent Expert Witnesses such as Professor Ivan Kennedy are relentlessly highlighting the unacceptable lack of risk research - confirming PFAS, Asbestos, BPA contamination risks and SF6 GHG leakage yet government agencies continue to fast-track approvals without any genuine safeguards.

How Much Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) is to be Installed by Origin Energy in the Bundure District - Jerilderie-Coleambally area from Yanco Delta Wind Swindle Factory?
As Professor Ivan Kennedy recently highlighted -->

“How Much Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) to be Installed at Dinawan, Bullawah and Walcha?
Can Planning Minister Paul Scully guarantee that almost five hundred 300-metre-high wind turbines proposed at Dinawan and Bullawah for the Riverina and at Walcha in the Northern Tablelands will be free of serious environmental consequences if fast track approved in his recently announced No-appeal Public Hearing?
In fact, he can't because there is a legally negligent lack of diligent independence by public authorities like the IPCN and financial promoters in conducting environmental risk research in hot, dry Australia.
What are the effects on production of food and fibre by our farming community?
Submissions 53 to the Senate Inquiry into Energy of December 2024 and to the cross-border Warracknabeal Victorian Planning Panel meeting on December 9 (46 and 150), 2025 show the turbulent wake of wind turbines is very likely drying landscapes, possibly increasing bushfire intensity and there are serious questions to answer about long term environmental impacts of PFAS and Bis-Phenol A (BPA).
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) recently drew attention to the need for prohibition of PFAS imports, recommending monitoring for long-lived PFAS used in turbine blades for tempering surfaces to limit corrosion of stressed longer blades.
Moreover, by 2027, both the EC and the UK intend to prohibit turbines lubricated internally with gaseous sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), 1 kilogram of which has greenhouse effects equivalent to 24.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide but a much longer lifetime of 3,200 years, so accumulating slowly from leakage.
It can also make toxic products if electrically arced.
Most turbines so far installed in Australia have at least 1 kg of SF6 and perhaps all of these should be dismantled now?
Mr Scully will also need to explain how these major Farrer Electorate installations and at Walcha will require farmers housing turbines to pay to clean up afterwards, just as our Premier, Chris Minns honestly explained recently about responsibility for decommissioning, possibly costing more than they will earn farmers leasing land while turbines operate.”
Ivan R. Kennedy
Professor Emeritus in Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry, University of Sydney Ph: 0413071796
Email: [email protected]

6. Total Lack of Social Licence
Local leaders, including Murrumbidgee Council’s Garry Stoll, state unequivocally: “There are no benefits – all pain and no gain. All social licence has been lost.”
The project continues to sacrifice productive land, water, biodiversity, and community wellbeing for the enrichment of predatory energy corporations.

7. Conclusion & Demand
Yanco Delta Wind – Modification 2 is not a renewable energy project; it is a predatory, toxic, intermittent industrial experiment. It is:
Poisoning life-sustaining land and vital water sources
Destroying biodiversity and rural communities
Threatening national food and energy security
Imposing immense economic, social, and intergenerational costs
We demand:
Immediate halt to Yanco Delta Wind – Modification 2.
Full implementation of upfront decommissioning and remediation bonds.
Comprehensive, enforceable regulation of imported PFAS, BPA, asbestos, and SF6-containing components.
Recognition that essential 24/7 coal and future nuclear power must underpin food security, energy security and national security.
The project must be rejected outright to prevent irreversible harm to rural NSW, Australia’s environment, and its people.

Damage Bills Mount as Renewables Rollout Leaves Councils Feeling Powerless - ABC News* - 27/02/2026
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-27/road-damage-bills-mount-amid-renewable-energy-rollout/106385356

IMPACT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY ZONES (REZ) ON RURAL AND REGIONAL COMMUNITIES AND INDUSTRIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES - HAY - 18/02/2026
https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/transcripts/3736/Transcript%20-%20CORRECTED%20-%20PC4%20-%20Renewable%20Energy%20Zones%20(REZ)%20-%2018%20February%202026.pdf

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVNNTR5jxuV/

This is a comprehensive condemnation of Origin’s Yanco Delta SWINDLE FACTORY – Modification 2
208 Turbines - 1,500 MW
BESS 800 MW / 800 MWh
Footprint: 33,000 hectares
Location: Jerilderie–Coleambally
Edward River Council
SSD-41743746-Mod-2

This is no “renewable energy project.” It is a predatory industrial incursion into productive rural communities, masquerading as clean energy development, imposing massive, destructive infrastructure on unwilling landowners and residents.

1. Environmental Carnage
Biodiversity Devastation:
Direct removal of 1,176 hectares of native vegetation, including threatened ecological communities and habitats for threatened flora and fauna.
Biodiversity offsets proposed are farcical money-making exercises; there is no credible evidence that offsets will ever compensate for the permanent destruction of ancient ecosystems.
Cumulative impact with despicable Dinawan Wind/Solar and obnoxious Argoon Wind multiplies ecological destruction across the region.

Toxic Contamination & Fire Risk:
Turbines shed toxic Bisphenol A, PFAS, and asbestos.
BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems) pose catastrophic fire hazards and release lethal hydrogen fluoride gas when they typically explode in flames.
Wake effect of turbines dries out the landscape, further endangering fire-prone areas and biodiversity as well as reducing agricultural productivity.
Aircraft tankers required for emergency firefighting are unable to operate over the turbine fields—a risk entirely ignored by Origin and the Modification 2 Report.

Air, Water, and Soil Destruction:
Increased construction traffic and site works elevate sedimentation, soil compaction, and contamination risks.
Watercourses and groundwater are vulnerable to pollution from construction runoff, chemicals, and leachates.
Local soils and agricultural productivity are directly threatened—food security for the region will be jeopardised.

2. Social and Community Harm
Invasion of Rural Communities:
Temporary Workforce Accommodation (TWA) 10 km from Jerilderie imposes transient, largely male construction workforce on small towns.
Disruption to community cohesion, social infrastructure, and population composition is inevitable.
Roads, councils, and local infrastructure are ignored and decimated, leaving rural residents to bear the brunt of the destruction.

Deceptive Public Relations:
Local consultation has been superficial and misleading, with promises of cheap, clean, reliable energy being blatant lies.
The public is presented with propaganda while facing noise, dust, and visual blight. Turbines are sickeningly visible even from Jerilderie Racecourse!

3. Economic Absurdities and Energy Poverty
Intermittent, Inefficient Energy:
Wind capacity factor averages a pathetic 30%, insufficient to meet base load.
Requires 100% backup generation from fossil fuels, making claims of “reliable, efficient, affordable energy” entirely false.
Eye-wateringly expensive taxpayer subsidies and regulated returns for Sabotaging TransGrid and other predatory operators inflate electricity prices rather than reduce them.

Land Grab & Opportunity Costs:
33,000 hectares of productive agricultural land are being sacrificed for intermittent power that cannot ever reliably serve NSW communities.
Construction and operation of this ecocidal, fake green fraud will compromise food production, water access, and local employment in far superior, worthwhile industries.

Geopolitical & Supply Chain Risks:
Turbine and BESS components are China-reliant, threatening energy security and national security.
Vulnerable supply chains risk catastrophic outages, leaving the NSW public detrimentally exposed.

4. Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Failings
This is a controlled action under the EPBC Act, yet the project ignores core principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development:
Precautionary Principle: Ignored; toxic hazards and ecological risks are underestimated.
Intergenerational Equity: Promises of clean energy totally fail; soil, water, biodiversity and the public will be poisoned for future generations.

Conservation of Biological Diversity: Biodiversity destruction is rampant and irreversible.

Efficient Use of Resources:
Energy generation is intermittent and wasteful; blade and lithium-ion battery recycling is non-existent.
NSW and Federal Governments have prioritised industrial wind scams over citizen welfare, enabling predatory operators to extract resources while leaving communities like Bundure, Jerilderie and Coleambally exposed to ecological and economic ruin.

5. Cumulative Impacts: Regional Devastation
Disingenuous Origin’s ecocidal Yanco Delta 208 toxic turbines + filthy Fire hazardous BESS, combined with:
Despicable Dinawan Solar: 750,000–2,000,000 heavy-metal leaching, PFOS-coated panels + filthy Fire hazardous BESS
Diabolical Dinawan Wind: 200 toxic turbines + filthy Fire hazardous BESS
Ghastly Argoon Wind: 106 toxic turbines + filthy Fire hazardous BESS
Result: Permanent environmental contamination, toxic chemical exposure, fire hazards, and landscape destruction across the South West Renewable Energy Zone.

6. Strategic and National Security Threats
Wind and BESS are unreliable, intermittent, and unethical supply-chain dependent, threatening food security, energy reliability, and national sovereignty.
Essential services, including emergency firefighting and agricultural operations, are compromised by turbine placement.
This disastrous plan undermines Australia’s viability, independence and the stability of our critical electricity grid which requires far superior and sovereign 24/7 coal power and future nuclear power industry capability which only needs a minimal environmental footprint which is critical for retaining Australia’s essential life-sustaining, uncontaminated food resource land, for economic stability, benefiting all our livelihoods, our energy security and vital national security.

7. Conclusion: A Project of Ruin
The Yanco Delta Wind Modification 2 project is a predatory, toxic, socially destructive, economically ruinous, and strategically hazardous swindle.
It:
Invades and disrupts productive rural communities against their will.
Permanently destroys biodiversity and arable land.
Risks toxic contamination, fire hazards, and air/water/soil pollution.
Provides intermittent energy with false economic promises, forcing reliance on costly backup.
Exposes Australia to geopolitical and supply chain risks while ignoring energy sovereignty.
Ignores all principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development.
Defies all aspects of the National Electricity Law Objective.

In short, this is not a renewable energy project—it is a RenewaBULL swindle: a toxic, intermittent industrial experiment masquerading as green energy, devastating rural Australia, enriching predatory corporations, and sacrificing the public interest and future generations.
This plan must be rejected outright before it imposes irreparable harm on land, water, biodiversity, the public and the Australian energy system.