Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission in response to the EIS prepared for the Hunter Transmission Project.
The matter I wish to raise is a solution for some of the negative impacts resulting from the construction of the project.
As utilised in the past, a very effective way to compensate for the impacts is by way of biodiversity offsets. I strongly believe my property at Dural (just south of Appletree Flat) has many of the characteristics that could satisfy offsets for the impacts of this project.
In addition to that, the Department of Energy, Climate Change, the Environment and Water are keen to add my property to the Wollemi National Park because it holds conservation and management values of interest, but more importantly, it is an “Inholding”. That is, it is completely surrounded by National Park and on a number of occasions they have expressed a desire to buy it but have never had sufficient funds in their budget.
NPWS carried out an initial assessed the property in 2024 and prepared a comprehensive assessment report. In June this year they asked my permission to share my contact details and the Assessment Report with you and the team overseeing biodiversity offset development for the Hunter Renewable Energy Zone. I trust you received that Assessment.
My property is available for purchase, but is not on the open market as it is my preference that it becomes part of the Wollemi National Park. It should be noted that I have previously sold adjoining Lots of this property, on two occasions, to developers for the purpose of biodiversity offsets, which were handed over to NPWS for their stewardship.
In summary, your purchase of the property or part there of, and handed to the NPWS could satisfy requirements to compensate for some of the negative impacts of your project, while fulfilling an aim of the NPWS to obtain this inholding who, I expect, would manage it at no cost to you.
Should you require any additional information or wish to discuss any aspects of this proposal further, I would be happy to oblige.

Dodgy, deceitful Energy Co are planning a blueprint for Grid collapse!
Built on ideological fantasies for the CCP, they ignore all engineering fundamentals and are a disgrace to every principle of responsible energy planning and energy security.

This project demands an immediate halt, a full forensic audit, and a Royal Commission into collusion, corruption, and foreign influence.

Energy Co is Destroying What Keeps the Lights On.
Reliable coal and nuclear would secure Australia’s future, but instead we get a dangerous fantasy of intermittent energy and subsidised grid failure for CCP benefit.

Parasitic Energy Co’s Fake Green plans have no Australian benefit - bringing invasive weeds, biosecurity breaches, permanent scarring of prime agricultural land—ecocide under the banner of decarbonisation and major misery for the public.

This totally unnecessary plan is Unjustified, Unwanted, UnAustralian!
There is no proven need for these transmission lines. They serve no public good—only the private interests of transnational parasites.

This CCP CONtrolling project would embed strategic vulnerabilities into Australia’s grid—turning energy from a national asset into a sabotaging national liability.

This is a fake green, rip-off solution for a fake green, vested interest manufactured crisis.

Building more transmission lines for unreliable "renewables" that don’t deliver power on demand is scientifically illiterate and strategically suicidal.