I very strongly object to Veolia’s proposed incinerator being built in Tarago.

Veolia’s proposed toxic industrial waste incinerator will be seriously impact my health, that of my local community and of the environment. The acid gases, toxic heavy metal particulates (mercury, lead cadmium) and persistent organic particulates (dioxins, furans, PCBs, PFAS) generated by the proposed incinerator will pollute the air I, and my community, breath, contaminate the water I, and our rural community collect for domestic and stock consumption, pollute the Sydney Water Catchment, and contaminat the soil of our rural, food producing area.
I do not want the vegetables, fruit and meat I grow contaminated by Veolia’s proposed toxic industrial waste incinerator. I live in a rural area to minimise the impact of pollution on my health! The NSW Government acknowledges in its own Energy from Waste Infrastructure Plan that waste incinerators impact human health stating, “Populations can still experience health impacts when emissions are below the national standards, and for some common air pollutants, there is no safe threshold of impact”.
In July 2018, the NSW Independent Planning Commission rejected the Eastern Creek waste incinerator in Sydney as not being in the public interest. The reasons included concerns about safety, insufficient evidence that the pollution control technologies would be capable of managing emissions, concern about the relationship between air quality impacts and water quality impacts, the possibility of adverse environmental outcomes, and concern about site suitability and human health impacts. The NSW Government has banned toxic waste incinerators in Sydney due to the risk to human health, risks have not changed since this decision.
Industrial waste incinerators aren’t safe for Tarago if they aren’t safe for Sydney!

I would like to lodge a very strong objection to Veolia’s proposed incinerator being built in Tarago.

My health, that of my local community and of the environment will be seriously impacted by Veolia’s toxic industrial waste incinerator. I do not want acid gases, toxic heavy metal particulates (mercury, lead cadmium) and persistent organic particulates (dioxins, furans, PCBs, PFAS) generated by the proposed incinerator in the air I, and my community, breath nor contaminating the water I, and our rural community, collect for domestic and stock consumption or entering the Sydney Water Catchment, nor contaminating the soil of our rural, food producing area.
I grow my own vegetable, fruit and meat and do not want these contaminated by Veolia’s proposed toxic industrial waste incinerator. I chose to live in a rural area to minimise the impact of pollution on my health! The NSW Government acknowledges in its own Energy from Waste Infrastructure Plan that waste incinerators impact human health stating, “Populations can still experience health impacts when emissions are below the national standards, and for some common air pollutants, there is no safe threshold of impact”.
In July 2018, the NSW Independent Planning Commission rejected the Eastern Creek waste incinerator in Sydney as not being in the public interest. Concerns about safety, insufficient evidence that the pollution control technologies would be capable of managing emissions, concern about the relationship between air quality impacts and water quality impacts, the possibility of adverse environmental outcomes, and concern about site suitability and human health impacts were the reasons included. the NSW Government has banned toxic waste incinerators in Sydney due to the risk to human health, risks have not changed since this 2018 decision.
If industrial waste incinerators aren’t safe for Sydney, they aren’t safe for Tarago!

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I object to the building of a waste incinerator at Tarago to burn Sydney's waste.
With the potential to add vast amounts of polutants to the atmosphere and countryside it seems to me to be a very retrograde move when we should be doing the exact opposite.
The present land-fill operation still has many years to go and at least has some positive outcomes. By the time this has finished I hope that far better methods will have been developed in the production of waste and its disposal.

I am 100% against the Woodlawn Toxic Incinerator. This MUST be stopped. This incinerator would damage the air, water, farmland, crops, animals grazing on these lands and therefore damage the food created from these lands, which in turn, damaging the health of those eating that food.
Our family recently moved to the idyllic and picturesque town of tarago, having just had our first home built. I want tarago to remain picturesque, beautiful and a healthy country town. If this incinerator were to go ahead, we are talking major health risks, cancer being one of them, to every human living in the surrounding areas. Then you've got law suits on your hands. None of us will accept this destruction to our area and health. If someone were to get cancer they wouldn't easily sue Veolia and win, for Veolia being the cause in the turn of bad health. And not only that, Tarago and surrounds property prices could then plummet and reduce any economy presently being grown and brought into the area, because who wants to live near a toxic waste incinerator that will damage their health? Would you? No, exactly. So stop it from going ahead!

I am a resident of the ACT, but this project will impact most of the northern ACT suburbs as well as our neighbouring region. Energy Recovery Center is a euphemism for what will actually be a highly polluting plant producing a minute amount of energy in proportion to the investment made and the pollution created. That money could pay for much cleaner sources of energy. The long term impact on our environment and health of this incinerator will be invisible, but nonetheless present. Toxic chemicals in our environment are responsible for numerous cancers and chronic diseases, including reduced male fertility. Projects like these will impact my children and grandchildren. The solution to growing mountains of waste is not to burn it, but to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost, not produce it in the first place. Please do not allow this highly damaging project to go forward. The ACT has rejected Veolia's polluting project when it was proposed for Fyshwick; Sydneysiders have rejected it when it was proposed outside Sydney; the EEC has banned these types of incinerators in Europe; Veolia is counting on the fact that the population of Tarago and surrounds is tiny to avoid scrutiny and opposition. It is devious and cannot be allowed. Please stop this project immediately and advise Veolia to invest their money in responsible recycling or in truly green energy instead. Thank you.

My name is Felicity, I live in Rosebery street Tarago.
I object to the incinerator, the smell is disgusting, the roads are like 3rd world country, the trucks leak all over the road.
That’s aside from the health problems- If it’s not safe for Sydney it people, its not safe for us.
We don’t want it

I live and work in Tarago and I object strongly to the proposed Veolia incinerator. There a lot of reasons that I object to this development, some of which I will detail below:
The NSW Government acknowledges in its own Energy from Waste Infrastructure Plan that waste incinerators impact human health stating “Populations can still experience health impacts when emissions are below the national standards, and for some common air pollutants, there is no safe threshold of impact”.
The proposal has already caused significant detrimental negative impact to surrounding communities’ mental health by increasing anxiety and depression. This will only be increased if the project goes ahead as those living nearby continue to stress about when their health will start to show the impacts of the pollution from the facility, or having to stay indoors.
The proposed incinerator will exceed NSW government safety standards for air emissions during start-up, shut-down and many other ‘non-standard’ operating conditions. Veolia’s overseas incinerators often exceed safety standards and Veolia has a track record locally for failing to comply with license conditions at their existing Woodlawn facility.
I strongly object because if its not safe enough for Sydney its not safe enough for Tarago. No amount of green washing can change the simple fact that this incinerator will contaminate all of us and the environment. This must be stopped. This has no social licence.

I live in Tarago and I strongly object to a toxic incinerator in Tarago. I run a local business in Tarago that will be directly impacted if it goes ahead. There are many reasons that I object, I will list some below.
It is clear there are limited economic benefits to the community from this project. Despite claims made by Veolia in the EIS, there are only a very small number of ongoing jobs created and required in order to manage and maintain the incinerator once constructed. Most of these workers will not reside in the local impacted community and would commute from either Goulburn, Bungendore or Canberra. The creation of this small number of jobs would in no way make up for the negative economic impact of reduced local population due to impacted families moving away, and halt to future growth which will result in pressure put on the viability of local businesses, schools and community organisations.
Employment rates in the local region are high – the jobs this project proposes aren’t needed in the local economy and there simply aren’t the people to fill them. It would likely both steal employees away from existing regional businesses struggling in the current economic environment and utilise significant numbers of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) employees who take and spend their money back home away from the local region. There also simply isn’t enough housing in the local area for these proposed workers – there are currently no vacant rental properties in Tarago, so any workers would be forced to surrounding towns again resulting in no economic benefit to the local area which is most impacted.
The NSW Energy from Waste Policy states that incinerator proposals are only valid where “community acceptance to operate such a process has been obtained”. There is no community acceptance for a facility in Tarago or anywhere in the Southern Tablelands.
Veolia have spent over 15 years failing to operate their existing Woodlawn facility within license conditions, have received multiple infringements, failed to inform the community of pollution to the environment, and attempted to withhold information from the community under freedom of information processes.
If Veolia is allowed to build a toxic incinerator in Tarago and its toxic outputs directly effects my customers and my business, who will I be able to hold accountable? I use tank water for my business on a daily basis, if this is poisoned then who is liable? Who will provide me with clean water? Will I even be told if Veolia has contaminated my water by breaching its emissions standards?
This incinerator must not go ahead. We do not want this here.