Farm lands are remote often fire services limited Lithium battery fire risk is high emergency access and water supply must be adequate
What are the maximum credible fire scenarios modelled what resources local emergency services will need what guarantee of water supply fire breaks and liability exist

The declared site area may not include all associated infrastructure roads transmission corridors buffering zones safety setbacks Temporary construction areas staging zones fences and landscaping These add to loss of agricultural land
What total area including all permanent infrastructure buffers safety setbacks and temporary works will be taken up and what will the functional agricultural land area loss look like

Battery storage policy guidance for battery systems is less mature than for solar farm infrastructure Regulatory oversight may lag risks especially for agriculture land conversion The proponent may be exploit policy gaps
What specific regulatory instrument resolves gaps for BESS in NSW how is its application to this project enforced and how will lapses be remedied

Public trust has been eroded beyond repair as communities in Greater Hume Shire and across regional NSW are being used as dumping grounds for fire-prone, PFAS-leaching, grid-destabilising junk infrastructure — all while being gaslit by political spin, propaganda, and bribery dressed up as "consultation."

equately address continuous noise from cooling systems transformers maintenance or occasional heavy operations Noise can stress livestock affect breeding and feedlot health Visual intrusion from infrastructure lighting fencing and containers degrades rural character for residents and may reduce land values An assessment of likely noise levels especially at night or during peak charging or discharging must be included Visual amenity for neighbours reduced permanently as industrial scale equipment is unlikely to blend with landscape. What decibel measurement modelling has been done that shows noise from the facility in worst case operation will not exceed acceptable levels at neighbouring farm residences during livestock breeding hours at night and what remedial measures will be imposed if sound exceeds those levels

Agriculture in this region depends on reliable surface water flows from Kilnacroft Creek Dead Horse Creek Bowna Creek and ultimately Lake Hume Any alteration of land contours tracks or hard surfaces will change runoff pathways increase risk of erosion reduce infiltration leading to both water loss for irrigation and greater sediment loads in creeks The assessment fails to adequately model extreme rainfall events or cumulative impact on waterways There is also risk of chemical leaching from battery infrastructure during construction or in disaster events impacting water quality downstream Farmers depend on dams and irrigation infrastructure which are sensitive to altered runoff patterns. Given current climate predictions for extreme rainfall and drought if the catchments feeding Kilnacroft Creek Dead Horse Creek and Bowna Creek are altered by this facility what independent hydrological model can show that irrigation water use downstream will not be reduced or contaminated even under worst case flood events

The proposal asserts the site is Class 4 agricultural land enabling a reduced Level 2 assessment yet official eSpade mapping indicates Class 3 making this prime farmland worthy of greater protection Class 3 land has fewer restrictions and greater importance for productive agriculture Misclassifying as Class 4 allows the proponent to bypass rigorous assessment obligations and minimises perceived harm The soil capability report claims on-site verification yet does not provide full transparent sampling or seasonal variability The risk of unseen subsoil limitations or variability in soil fertility is high Given the economic importance of cropping and grazing in Greater Hume Shire the loss of Class 3 land harms food security economy and landscape integrity. If in fifty years every square metre of soil under the battery installation had to produce at least as much yield per hectare for wheat and sheep grazing as it would today under typical farming practice without any loss due to compaction contamination hydrological change or nutrient decline can the proponent guarantee that with full scientific modelling monitoring remediation and financial surety including third party oversight

I Vehemently Object to Jindera BESS.

The developers of a proposed lithium-ion battery hub in Jindera have asked Greater Hume Council to approve an agreement that would secure financial contributions to help fund public .....public what ? Not Needs ? How Dare you, GHC. You are going to be made Responsible if Contamination is from Jindera Battery into Murray Darling Basin Food Production Catchments.

I am Livid and will NOT accept BESS in Australia and Know Why.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/06/erin-brockovich-lawsuit-moss-landing-power-plant-fire/

Risk Assessments not completed why ? Too much Risk is there, eh ! Shame on you All.

I Do wonder what you people Eat. Obviously it is Toxic to Gut Body Spirit Soul gone gone gone from gov.au, nsw.gov.au, vic.gov.au, personnel and Communities Urban never knowing much about anything yet getting the right to Somehow decide Our, Australians Ours, Food Quality Future.

You don't Care about your Food Quality But I Do ! Shame on you All.

Money Talks eh. Shame On You All. Shame On You.

I Need a Better Care Future than Yours - you who have No Care in you do you. How dare you Risk Contamination of Upper Murray. Yes, Upper Murray.

Upper Murray, flowing where Do you Ever Ask !

I Demand an Immediate Moratorium on Lithium Ion batteries Immediately Immediately Immediately. Get them Out of Country Now. Never let them enter Australia I Demand.

I Object Vehemently to Jindera BESS and for Obvious reasons.

Ohh God Please Save Our Australia Lands Waterways and Communities from Contamination Risks increasing Due to those who Choose them in on upon Catchments Australian including Precious Precious Precious Murray Darling Basin Food Production Catchments !!

Why are you not Eating Clean Foods ? Tell me.

Who is ? Me. Yes. I want to Clean up environment Australia. Surely you do, but Don't ! Dirty filthy humans you are you lot as gov.au, nsw.gov.au, vic.gov.au, harming and Causing Loss to Precious Precious Precious Murray Darling Basin Food Production Catchments that flow from high to low and do.

Dirty you are. Fooled you are. Sack yourselves Now. Go on. Shame on you. I will hold you fully responsible And fully accountable I will. How Dare You people continue this Hideous method of energy storage we do Not even need. I am leaving Australia. I simply bear what You people are Doing to it !!

Neighbours farmers landholders may not have been fully informed of long term impacts water quality soil productivity fire risk The assessment may not reflect local knowledge Traditional Custodians may not have been properly consulted. What records exist of meetings with all affected neighbours Traditional Owners what responses were given what modifications to the proposal were made as a result

Totally unacceptable, outrageously destructive, cumulative impacts have been ignored.

Multiple BESS, Wind and Solar projects are converging in the Riverina/Murray region like a poisonous plague.

This means devastating, toxic contaminating, cumulative impacts on water, air quality, food production and biodiversity - the antithesis of ‘clean and sustainable.’
Nothing but a FAKE GREEN SWINDLE!

This fragmented approval process is intellectually dishonest.