As a very near Neighbour who will see turbines from my home. By 100% of object to the project for many reasons cited by neighbours. I particularly object to the inclusion of BESS batteries with every turbine. They are enormous fire hazards in a very high danger fire zone. This is prime farmland. There are enough renewable energy in this area and ready. This is not a governance sanctioned renewable area. Object to saying about my window. I have not been consulted in anyway or contacted or recompensed.

I wish to lodge a formal objection to the proposed modification to incorporate decentralised Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at the Coppabella Wind Farm location.

Our property is an active agricultural holding producing food for human consumption and livestock markets. The introduction of multiple industrial-scale BESS units (the size of shipping containers) in close proximity presents unacceptable and unquantified risks to agricultural production, community safety, and environmental health.

Bushfire & Emergency Response Risk
Lithium battery fires are resistant to conventional suppression and burn at extreme temperatures, producing toxic byproducts requiring large-scale exclusion zones. Local RFS brigades are primarily volunteer-based and not equipped for industrial lithium fire response on elevated terrain.

Contamination Risk to Food Production
A failure event may release heavy metals, fluorinated gases, and contaminated firewater runoff that could enter pasture, dams, soil and subsequently the human food chain. No evidence has been provided of independent agricultural impact modelling.

Land-Use Conflict
The introduction of industrial infrastructure into a rural food-producing landscape is inconsistent with the character and zoning of the region. The ongoing agricultural viability of surrounding land has not been assessed.

Decommissioning, Failure and Liability
There is insufficient detail on end-of-life disposal, remediation, and who bears liability should the operating entity become insolvent.

For these reasons, I request that the modification proposal be rejected until independent agricultural, fire safety, environmental and emergency-management studies are undertaken and publicly released.

Please see attached letter of objection to the proposed Modification.

This submission has been removed from publication due to inappropriate or potentially defamatory content. However the Department, in assessing and making any recommendations in relation to this application will take into consideration such of the submission’s content that is relevant. The submission will also still be counted for the purpose of identifying who can determine the application.

This BESS plan demonstrates reckless disregard for safety.
Proceeding despite known hazards as the DPHI and IPCN are irresponsibly doing - constitutes reckless disregard for human life, bordering on a conscious violation of safety rights.

Even Fire authorities acknowledge BESS standards and codes lag deployment, turning communities into unwilling test subjects for life threatening, dangerous experiments they don’t know how to handle.

I object and do NOT consent to this project for the following reasons:

The fact that this project and other similar renewable projects are connected to potentially flammable and dangerous high voltage transmission lines and towers. For example:

Just over sixteen years ago, on the 7th of February 2009, 6 out of the 11 Black Saturday fires that took 173 lives and did untold damage to property, livestock and wildlife, were started by high voltage transmission lines. This was such a devastating, large scale catastrophe that a Royal Commission was called to investigate why these fires happened and how they could be prevented in the future - VBRC_Summary_PF.pdf, Remembering Black Saturday - 15th anniversary | Emergency Victoria. 

Cameron Stuart of Brittanica.com on the 20th of January 2025 (Black Saturday bushfires | Causes, Deaths, Map, & Location | Britannica), described the horrific, catastrophic, devastating Black Saturday fires in detail:

"On February 7 Victorians were told to brace for the “worst day” in the state’s history: weather forecasters warned of a record heat wave with temperatures soaring to 115.5 °F (46.4 °C), combined with gale-force winds of up to 56 miles (90 km) per hour. That day more than 47 major fires erupted across the state, 14 of them claiming lives or causing significant damage. The most deadly conflagration, known as the Kilmore East fire, which claimed 121 lives, was sparked by a faulty power pole near the township of Kilmore East, 37 miles (60 km) north of Melbourne. The flames quickly jumped a major highway and roared into a forest, where they turned into a giant fireball, dwarfing the resources of local firefighters, who could only flee in its path. Aided by steep slopes and powerful winds, this fire raced through a series of townships, including Kinglake (where 38 people died), Strathewen (27 perished), and St. Andrews (12 were killed), catching residents by surprise and trapping many in their homes. Some sought to escape by car as the fires approached, but dozens died on the roads as they were overtaken by the fire, which leapt 330 feet (100 metres) above the tree line and was powerful enough to kill with radiant heat from nearly 1,000 feet

Late in the afternoon a sudden change in wind direction pushed the fire to the northeast, bringing new towns into its path. A parallel fire, known as the Murrindindi fire, also blew to the northeast, swallowing the unsuspecting tourist town of Marysville, where 34 people lost their lives. Fire experts said that these two fires alone released energy equivalent to that of 1,500 atomic bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan."

Fire experts said that these two fires alone released energy equivalent to that of 1,500 atomic bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan."

Not only are lithium battery factories extremely dangerous, but they are also deadly Lithium battery factory fire kills 22 in South Korea. 

In California, it was reported that it was PG&E's powerlines that had sparked the recent horrific and deeply devastating fires - , How Did The California Wildfires Start? Officials Weigh Power Lines, Fireworks—And Arson (forbes.com), PG&E’s Lengthy Record of Starting Wildfires, and What the Company Is Doing to Change It (californialocal.com) and in fact, PG$E was found to be responsible for the worst fire in California history - the Camp Fire (Customers of PG&E, other utilities pay billions for wildfire prevention- CalMatters)

"POWER LINES AND ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE
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Multiple residents of Altadena sued Southern California Edison on Monday, alleging the Eaton Fire was started by the company’s electrical equipment. The lawsuits cite eyewitness reports of sparking power lines. The company has pushed back against the theory, saying in a statement Sunday its “analysis shows no interruptions or operational/electrical anomalies in the 12 hours prior to the fire’s reported start time until more than one hour after the reported start time of the fire.” One of the filed complaints reportedly alleged, “there is clear evidence from video footage, photographs, and witness accounts that the fire was caused by electrical equipment operated by Defendants Edison International and Southern California Edison.” Power infrastructure has been a leading cause of fires in California in the past—with eight of the state’s 20 most destructive fires having power-related causes—and the amount of fires started by equipment has grown recently, The New York Times reported."

Interestingly enough,, prior to the recent wildfires in California, PG&E had a mitigation plan, which as you can very plainly see did NOT stop the extremely horrific, deadly and destructive California Wildfires from happening, much less actually put them out, and so now, what will happen to all the taxpayers who lost their homes, livelihoods, pets, etc because of PG&E's powerlines sparking the tremendously fast moving fires throughout Southern California, doing untold damage, along with taking lives?  (TN13803_20240402T112956_PGE's_2025_Wildfire_Mitigation_Plan_Update.pdf).

And then there is the astronomical and, in my opinion, completely irresponsible and unjustifiable cost of these renewables:

Stated in the 2025 SUBMISSION TO CSIRO'S DRAFT 2024-25 GENCOST REPORT.pdf

"3.0 Capital Cost Factors GenCost defines future capital cost factors 6 for various generation and storage technologies. It observes recent years when freight and raw materials rapidly increased costs. Its use of a 2006 to 2009 price bubble to show prices returned to previous expectations is not entirely realistic since the industry was much smaller at that time and basic power costs affecting manufacturing have been recently escalating much more rapidly. GenCost’s contention that “…inflationary pressures for most technologies and the cost of some…such as solar PV and batteries are falling again” is contestable. We believe this is only a small part of the story. In our view: • Renewables are now relatively mature technologies after 30 years of intensive development, thus making assumptions of substantial future cost decreases too optimistic. • Labour costs have been hit with high inflation recently; these costs are not going to go down. • The dominance of one country, China, in the entire supply chain for renewables makes higher future prices likely as competition is stifled and hence deserves more careful analysis. • Increasing demand in global markets may cause price rises. • Shipping costs are being hit by increasing fuel costs. • Operating costs of renewables are greater than anticipated, as the UK and Germany have found. • Subsidies for the cheapest form of electricity generation, which surely should not still be necessary) could be reduced, adding to manufacturing costs. Compounding the uncertainties in predicting future costs are: a. realisation that the extraordinary costs involved are not affordable nor sustainable, b. the negative impact on national economies from unreliable intermittent power, c. many countries, including the largest, doing nothing or very little, to meet Net Zero goals, d. the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Accord, e. the mounting market failure of EVs, f. recognition that the science of climate catastrophism is overstated and overhyped, and g. the severe environmental impacts of solar and wind generation installations being regarded as unacceptable. 6 GenCost Section 5 P3"

This report/submission was written by 19 independent engineers and professionals who are all well qualified to comment on the true costs of implementing the government’s Net Zero 2050 policy for the National Electricity Market (NEM):

Professor Michael Asten, PhD, BSc (Hon), BLitt, FRAS Ben Beattie, BE(Elec), CPEng RPEQ Jeremy Barlow, BE, MBA, FAIMM William Bourke, BSc, BEng (Aero), MEng Sc. Michael Bowden IEng (Electronics-UK); CPL; CQP Rafe Champion, MSc (History and Philosophy of Science), B.Ag.Sc. (Hons) Arthur Day, PhD, BSc (Hon) Paul R C Goard, BSc, Physicist, M.A.I.P., M.I.of P., M.A.I.E., M.A.M.O.S. Peter J F Harris, BEng, Dipl. Prod Eng. Professor Emeritus Aynsley Kellow, BA(Hons) PhD Bryan Leyland, MSc (Power systems) DistFEngNZ, FIMechE, FIEE (rtd) John McBratney, B. Tech (Electronic Engineering), formerly MIE Aust, MIEEE John McLean, PhD Paul Miskelly, BE MEngSc Electrical Engineering Grant Piper, BE Aero UNSW, FRAeS, Chair NREN Peter Ridd, PhD, BSc James R (Jim) Simpson, (Ret., former business unit manager, OTC & Telstra) Bill Stinson, Dip.Tech(Building), B.AppSc.(Building), Dip Labour Relations & Law, Cert. Design Sc. (Facilities) James Taylor, PhD, MSc, BEng Elect (Hon), PEng, FCASI

In addition, developers, NOT landowners, farmers or people who host renewables should be made to not only pay full decommission costs of these renewables, they also should be held solely responsible, along with the planning commission and government to ensure that no electrical bushfires breaks out of the renewables, high voltage transmission lines and towers, wind turbines, Battery storage units, solar "farms" (farms is a misnomer indeed) and any other energy infrastructure, NOT landowners, farmers or people who host renewables. https://braddonbeagle.com/do-we-have-a-do-as-i-do-or-do-as-i-say-government-you-decide/

Goldwind is a Chinese company that has already imported Asbestos into Australia in its Wind turbines and now they want to install shipping containers of lithium ion batteries. What toxic legacy will this leave? STOP destroying our environment. STOP using taxpayers funds in order to enhance the profit of Goldwind. The result of this project will be increased fire risk, increased diesel generator use, increased land fill, increased envrionmental damage and increased cost of electricity for consumers.