These transmission lines travelling across New South Wales and Victoria Prime agricultural land must stop
the property owners on the route of these transmission lines have been given no consultation and no respect to the personal land and properties.
The mental health issue and devaluation of their properties is not taken into any aspects of this project
This net zero 20, 50, will never be met and never be successful because we can’t live on renewable energy alone
The costs of transmission lines Is beyond belief, and it seems to be a bottomless pit of taxpayers money
We need a base load power source, which is nuclear or coal fired power stations
All these transmission lines are going to Offshore companies,
constructing solar wind and battery plants along these transmission lines and destroying the landscape and the quality of farming life again on Prime agricultural land
Cost have gone up and was noted recently at the bush summit that will take at least 10 years before we see a decrease in Electricity cost
It’s about time government woke up and pulled the head out of the sand and did what’s best for the country cheaper power more productivity and stop ruining life in local communities
There is no wind situation for local communities. In this it all is a greed for money by vulnerable people that got no farming skills.
You can’t even get snowy 2.2 Operational so you’re just gonna continue wrecking peoples logs to try to meet this impossible target
I’m totally opposed to this transmission line as opposed to the others
Build modular Nuclear plants at the places that require the power it’s not rocket science

please refer to attachment submission

VNI WEST INTERCONNECTOR – A CATASTROPHIC BETRAYAL OF RURAL AUSTRALIA AND OUR NATIONAL INTERESTS 🚨
Official Project: Victoria to NSW Interconnector West – Planning Portal
This is a ruthless assault on:
Our agricultural productivity,
Our precious ecosystems and biodiversity,
Our energy sovereignty and security,
Our economy, our communities – and our future.
It must be stopped – completely and permanently.
The VNI West Interconnector is not just a bad idea. It is a diabolically destructive, financially ruinous, ecologically catastrophic, and strategically negligent scheme — deceptively sold to the public under the false banner of "renewable energy transition" and "grid reliability".
Let us call it what it truly is:
A land grab. A wealth transfer. A national sabotage.
🔥 WHY THIS MUST BE REJECTED OUTRIGHT:
💰 1. ECONOMIC INSANITY
Astronomically costly – with zero economic return for host communities.
Built not for reliability, but to force through an overbuild of unreliable, weather-dependent solar/wind/BESS infrastructure.
The result? Skyrocketing power bills, crippling our manufacturing, farming, and essential services.
Funded by taxpayers and consumers, while profits are funnelled offshore to parasitic corporations and CCP-linked entities like Cheung Kong Infrastructure (via Spark Infrastructure).
🧨 2. NATIONAL SECURITY NIGHTMARE
Critical infrastructure connected to foreign, hostile state actors.
Components sourced from unethical, slave-labour-drenched supply chains.
Built by corporations with no allegiance to Australia, including Spark Infrastructure, Beon Energy, Elecnor – exploiting our grid, our land, our people.
Cyber vulnerability is baked into the model: centralised, exposed infrastructure easily sabotaged by bad actors.
🧬 3. ECOCIDAL INSANITY – PERMANENT ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
This is not “clean energy.” It is industrialised environmental vandalism.
Enables a deluge of industrial wind, solar and BESS monstrosities across once-pristine landscapes.
Results in:
Widespread land degradation
Toxic PFAS pollution
Contaminated water tables
Bird and bat annihilation
Biodiversity collapse
Massive fire risks from battery storage systems and overheated lines.
All in direct contradiction to the Stockholm Convention, Australian Drinking Water Guidelines, WHO guidelines, and PFAS bans.
🚫 4. DESTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE & RURAL LIVELIHOODS
Irreversible damage to high-value farming land.
Severe disruptions to livestock management, aerial spraying, vehicle movements, and farm productivity.
Biosecurity risks, EMF health concerns, and ongoing interference with farming operations.
All for infrastructure that has no local benefit and was forced through without social licence.
⚠️ 5. ENERGY INSECURITY – NOT RELIABILITY
VNI West is not about "reliability". It’s about enabling chaos.
Designed to funnel unreliable generation (solar/wind) from South Australia eastward.
Creates grid fragility, energy poverty, and an over-reliance on intermittent generation.
This infrastructure does not "store" or "stabilise" power – it amplifies volatility.
❌ 6. BASED ON DEBUNKED, DECEITFUL ISP (Integrated System Plan)
AEMO’s ISP has been widely discredited – based on flawed modelling, fabricated assumptions, and deliberate underestimation of costs.
Assumes technological miracles, while ignoring:
The collapse of wind/solar output in real-world conditions
The cost of transmission maintenance and replacement
The environmental cost of mass-scale energy sprawl
VNI West is a sunk-cost fallacy in action.
😤 7. TRANSGRID IS UTTERLY UNTRUSTWORTHY
A parasitic monopoly, abusing its power to plunder rural communities.
Refuses to pay contractors.
Operates without transparency, integrity, or accountability.
Refuses to acknowledge social or environmental damage.
Engages in deliberate greenwashing and public deception to secure approvals.
🚨 THIS PROJECT DEFILES:
The National Electricity Law Objective
Ecologically Sustainable Development principles
The Paris Agreement
The Modern Slavery Act
The Commonwealth PFAS Ban
The LPA accreditation framework
The trust and rights of every rural landowner it exploits
❗ IT OFFERS:
No meaningful jobs
No energy savings
No community benefits
No accountability
No removal of infrastructure after decommissioning
Only mass-scale, irreversible damage, and the entrenchment of an energy model that is broken from the start.
🔚 RECOMMENDATION:
This project must be abandoned in full. Not “revised.” Not “offset.” Not “mitigated.”
ABANDONED.
Let’s be clear: There is no “clean energy future” built on destruction, deception, and exploitation.
Australia deserves a sovereign, affordable, reliable energy future based on real engineering, true environmental protection, and ethical governance.
VNI WEST IS NONE OF THESE.
👉 Say NO to VNI West. Say NO to TransGrid. Say NO to the corporate sabotage of Australia’s energy, land, economy, and national security.

I am sure others will argue that this proposal is not required and I would agree, however should this project be approved it requires the condition that the cabling should go underground. There are many good reasons why undergrounding should be used and one in particular is the comparison between what is proposed and undergounding. Above ground installation requires significant earth works to construct a road and the massive excavation of earth for the footings of the towers. Surely the trenching for undergrounding would not be as destructive as the above ground tower footings. The bonus of undergrounding has less visual impact and reduced fire risk

I object to VNI West (NSW) on a core procedural flaw in cost disclosure and on material environmental, agricultural, social/visual and cumulative impacts. The Application Form publicly listed an Estimated Development Cost (EDC) of $17,000,000. The proponent’s letter of 4 Aug 2025 corrects this to $3.75b. The Application Form also names “VNI West Estimated Development Cost Report – Final 21072025,” but that EDC report is not exhibited in the public Application or EIS folders. SEARs required disclosure of the EDC using the Standard Form. This defect misled the public during exhibition and prejudices assessment. I request the Department publish the EDC report and re-exhibit; re-test all economic claims against $3.75b; and require route-level avoidance/partial undergrounding for biodiversity and visual hotspots. If compliance cannot be demonstrated, the project should be refused.