Please find my objections attached.

I have attended several of the open days regarding Thunderbolt Wind Project and am supportive if this project.
I believe the local community can benefit from the project progressing, both in the increased economic activity it will bring and the ongoing Community support fund provided by Neon.
I have followed this project quite closely since the beginning, and have found the processes to be transparent, thorough and well communicated with the community.
I look forward to seeing the turbines on the horizon.

Please see attached submission

To whom it may concern,
I am write this email out of concern for the potential windfarm project Thunderbolt energy hub to be located at Kentucky.
This potential eyesore will be my families farm direct neighbour , with little consultation to the community this thing is being steamrolled though government agencies with little thought about the people and the small community it will impact !! Our local Friends of Kentucky have supplied more information to this community regarding progression than that of the windfarm company Neoen , but then again their track record isn`t very good at all . This company speaks of community consultation which doesn`t exist , we have had 1 community meeting & 2 drop in sessions all in and around covid which hardly seems fair when people cannot or are afraid to attend.
The community has repeatedly asked for more community meeting`s which they refuse and will only meet one on one . Isn`t his part of the application process community
consultation ? This process needs to seriously looked at if not for us but future projects.
I work for parks and wildlife in Queensland , and after discovering in the EIS report from Neoen an exert:
" we will shake trees with heavy machinery to discourage wildlife"
any injured with be addressed by local vets !! are you serious ? This company is being left to deal with native wildlife which include KOALAS ,EAGLES ,QUALL , BELLS TURTLES WHICH ARE ON THE ENDANGERED LIST AS ARE KOALA`S . this is completely off the planet and goes against all that I work for .
"after this they will fell the trees "!! So remove native vegetation from the area that support wildlife .
I won`t go on about visual amenity, noise , shadow flicker , as the list goes on and on, because ultimately it will come down to someone in an office making a decision for the rest of us on how my family farm will operate , be valued or the future economic losses this will create, we are to suffer this possible industrial neighbour .
Both companies are foreign owned so they don`t care if it effects anyone as either live in the area , you don`t know the gut wrenching heartache you have caused my family over the last few years , the absolute stress you have placed on already hard working parents that both have other jobs to keep this farm , have worked their guts out to keep things going through the drought all the while in the back ground is this lingering knowledge of this project !!
This project doesn`t have community support and they don`t deserve it as they have had no consideration of locals or the landscape in which we live ,to them it is all about money , while we consider ourselves custodians of this beautiful place in which we live forever to be changed by a windfarm !!

My husband and I have serious concerns re Neoen's Environment Impact Statement.
CUMULATIVE IMPACT....... Appendix 20
This is an incomplete and misleading appendix.
Firstly, it includes projects for all of New England and beyond.( Gunnedah is not in New England. Tamworth is not in New England!!!).
Secondly, it does not include major adjoining projects - Topdale Wind, Ruby Hills Wind (Walcha Energy) and Salisbury Wind (Cubico).
We understand that there have been some 32 GW of expression of interest for RE in New England.
We also understand that 8GW have been allocated.
There are some 660 wind towers and 11 million solar panels in advanced planning in a 70 km radius of Walcha alone that we know of including this project.
This represents massive overdevelopment and cumulative impact.
LACK OF A MASTERPLAN FOR THE REZ ....... Why can't all projects be put on the table to be assessed on their merits at the same time. We need a moratorium until this is done.
BUSHFIRE FIGHTING.........This is a HIGH RISK BUSHFIRE AREA
Each summer a number of fires start in this area mainly due to lightning strike. Due to the heavily timbered, relatively inaccessible nature of the country, we are very dependent on aerial support, both fixed wing and helicopter units. This aerial support would not be possible if wind towers were present. Also, the main source of helicopter and ground unit refill is the large dam on Banalasta. This would be lost.
DECOMMISSIONING ......There is no upfront bond for decommissioning as required by the mining industry. Theses projects usually change ownership a number of times. It would be impossible to enforce decommissioning in many foreign legal jurisdictions.
LANDFILL ....... . There is no plan for disposal at end of life. It is simply impossible for local councils to cope with the waste of these projects on the scale proposed.
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP....... .Kyabra is Chinese owned. Neoen is a French company. All profits go offshore. It is amoral to allow a Chinese owned company to host a project like this with their current embargo on our produce (INCLUDING BEEF WHICH IS ONE OF OUR MAIN LOCAL SOURCES OF INCOME).
LAND CLEARING AND NEW ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ......... New England, particularly in the area of the new project has a very delicate ecological balance. In the 1960's and 70's, we suffered dieback of much of our native trees. This continues today in overcleared areas. It is imperative that native forest areas such as exist in the Kentucky and other New England areas are not cleared to try and arrest the dieback. As well, this unique ecological community which harbours many endangered species of native flora and fauna needs to be protected.

OBJECTION TO THUNDERBOLT WIND FARM SSD-10807896

This is my objection to SSD-10807896 Thunderbolt Wind Farm.

Firstly, I support renewable energy as an additional source of energy to support our present use of power.

The building of an industrial wind farm in the beautiful New England region will be detrimental to the natural and human community in so many regards. With the recent catastrophic fires across the eastern side of New South Wales, every effort must now be made to protect and grow the remaining koalas left in our region. To disrupt and destroy their habitat in this region is another stress that may be the last straw for this now endangered species. Building these wind towers will necessitate the destruction of mature eucalypts, the high value habitat species that koalas rely on. Please think of the future generations of Australians and allow the koalas to regenerate in the New England and hopefully save them from extinction.

Louise Streeting from the University of New England in Armidale, has undertaken her PhD in the protection of the endangered Bells Turtle and the Looanga Creek sub-catchment is their home. (Huggett, 2019). No unnecessary human development can be sanctioned in this area at the demise of this small turtle, when these wind towers can be built elsewhere.

If Neoen had undertaken courteous community consultation as part of their project planning, they would have been aware of these critical details from the beginning and could have planned accordingly. Instead they have treated the local community with disdain, ignoring legislation that states it as a necessary and essential component of the project development. None of their attempts at community engagement could be considered satisfactory but instead would be considered a dismal failure. Local Councils and government representatives should be overseeing these projects and taking a far more proactive approach to ensure their communities are respected and acknowledged.

Yours faithfully,
Louise Forsythe

Large scale wind farms on productive, highly populated rural land in the New England is extremely inappropriate. This is NOT the appropriate choice for efficient renewables. The New England landscape will be irreversibly changed. There will be wildlife habitat destruction with endangered species and critically endangered species already identified at the site.
This proposal is absurd, profits directed to foreign landholders and companies and MUST not go ahead.

I object to the thunderbolt wind farm because it will be highly damaging to the New England environment in construction, maintenance and eventual destruction of the spent turbines which will eventually end up in landfill. This is not in any way sustainable.
This is only about profit for foreign owned companies. Profits go to a French company, not Australian.
Stage 1 at Kyabra so not even an Australian owned farm.
Negative impact on the environment. Effect on bird life.
Enormous amount of fossil fuel cost in construction, shipping the parts to Australia, then transport to site. Will only last 30 years.
This is not the answer !!!!!!