I object to everything about these so-called “renewable” energy “farms”. There is nothing renewable about them. They are purely about the destruction of our homes and way of life.

Re: Burrendong Wind farms
1. The EIS has not made any reference to the use of the dam by RFS contractors that use aircraft in fire fighting
The dam is use to pick up water by these aircraft and the addition of 100s of turbines of 200 m height in smokey
conditions will be an accident waiting to happen,
2. Agriculture over the last 100 years has use aircraft for a number of purposes. Aerial fertiliser, spraying locusts,
application of improved pasture seed. For a large areas around this dam and all to way to the Mudgee valley the terrain will not allow the normal use of farm vehicles in a safe manner and these turbines will force farmers to attempt to do these task from vehicles as aerial operator refuse to fly with so many aerial obstacles. I can see an increase in farm accident, something that is already one of the highest accident rates of any industry.

I feel there has not been enough research done on these wind farms to provide power to the growing population and consumers requirements to the amount of power they produce,
Also there is no plans on how to get rit of these products. When there life span is up.

As a landholder in the Central West I feel the way I have found out about the Burrendong wind farm has been by chance and I believe that Eupuron/Ark Energy has been disingenuous in their community consultation. I feel left in the dark and having to find my own information. 6 + months waiting for a reply email is not adequate enough.

My family and friends, neighbours and other land holders are of the same view and we all strongly oppose the burrendong wind farm. The impact on my young family and our way of life is going to be devastating. This wind farm cannot be approved without first making agreements with Land holders along the Twelve Mile and Yarrabin Road. All they have mentioned in the EIS is aquistations from landholders- without consultation??

This wind farm if approved will be there for the rest of my life, my children won’t even remember the peaceful beautiful generational farm we once had. They are the 5th generation in our family to be on this farm and I can see the wind farms that are being proposed in our area as the reason our farm ceases the breeding and care of cattle, sheep, goats, horses, poultry among many other animals we have. We will be able to see and hear the uungala, piambong and burrendong wind farms.

We currently see 1-5 cars travel along our road per day and rarely any of a night, during construction there will be 200+ cars not including the heavy machinery bringing the turbine blades in, the vehicles and machinery to upgrade the road, and cement trucks. Ark energy has taken their daily vehicle tally from a different point on Yarrabin road and have not given a true report in the EIS.
This is absolutely going to have a severe impact directly on the environment around my community. 2 of our family homes (1 has been there more than 80 years) are within 50m to the Yarrabin Road, they will be unliveable during construction of both the road upgrade and wind farm construction due to the noise and dust levels without mentioning the undue stress on both our family and animals from the amount of people and vehicles in our normally quite and peaceful community. They have stated we currently have 2 vehicles at night time which is completely untrue where my houses are and that they don’t see noise levels being a problem. How can they justify that? Any heavy vehicle let alone a OSOM monster truck going past at any time of day will impact both my family and our livestock.

We currently rely on the road for all stock our movements and day to day farm activities. Our properties are not fenced off from the road and will not be able to as the road will cut our property off from the cudgegong river which is vital not only for our stock but also for native animals that seek shade and shelter in the hills and water at the river. The majority of our land is on one side of the road with essential shearing sheds, sheep yards and cattle yards on the other, this will make it impossible to adequately care for our live stock, which is our main family income. There is no mention on how our grazing farms are able to continue?
Ark energy must engage with landholders and obtain consent, how can the EIS be approved if there is no access to the proposed site as the council road they are wanting to use often isn’t even on the designated crown road- there are even sections where the crown road doesn’t exist!

Ark energy have not done adequate native flora and fauna studies in their biodiversity assessment, there are many many rare and threatened species here. It is also a direct flight path for the Regent Honey Eater Bird and home to many different species of grass wrens, blue and red backed fairy wrens all the way up to wedged tail eagles. There are platypus and 100+ year old mussels, endangered catfish in the river that only survive because of how clean our area is, different rock wallaby species, lots of owls, major Mitchell cockatoos, native peas, a lot of different species of bats. They have mentioned there is no roosting within the proposed wind farm yet no mention of the impact of bats and birds flying at night and being killed. The biodiversity in our area will never be the same once this windfarm is approved, the disturbance to a quiet, clean, healthy ecosystem will be devastating.

Please consider my concerns with Ark Energy -Andrew Wilson he has lied to both my family and neighbours when he worked for Eupuron and Ark Energy (the same company). I believe they will also sell this windfarm to an offshore buyer and any agreements we have come to with Andrew will be void. Our concerns with the major road upgrade need to be included in their EIS.

I reserve the right to add more submissions to the burrendong wind farm.

Wind projects are simply not going to solve any issues of replacing proven, 24/7 reliable, cheap and environmentally friendly conventional power. They are unreliable, expensive (very expensive if you include the costs of transmission and backing up by conventional power), environmentally destructive and intrusive on landholders properties and remnant bush and iconic animals.


What you are doing is not 'saving the planet' you are, in effect 'destroying the planet'.

Seeking more information in regard to construction schedule and whether a public hearing to review can be arranged

I strongly object to the Burrendong Wind Farm. I moved here due to my MS ( Multiple sclerosis). I don't deal with stress and noise very well. I have improved in my health while I been living here but if the wind farm do come here, I'll be going backwards in my health.

Good Afternoon,
As a property owner living in Hargraves I object to the Burrendong Wind Farm,

My family and I believe that this project will have a severe impact on the environment and the natural surroundings of Hargraves,
I object to the Burrendong Wind Farm Especially the turbines closest to us 67,68,69, and 70.

These are the main turbines that will impact us the most and don't want them near us,

Views from all over my property will be ruined, the health and safety of my family will be at risk,
the living conditions will change for the worse, the value of our properties will decrease significantly - Where is the compensation plan to compensate residents that will be forced to live with wind turbines if this project is approved?

And just a reminder that a Hall of Fame award was presented to Mudgee, in recognition of its outstanding achievement in being crowned winner in the Top Tourism Town category at the NSW Top Tourism Awards in 2021 and 2022, and receiving the Australian Top Town Tourism Award in 2021 and 2022.

Has council/town of planning considered the long term damage to the area - Where Mudgee and the surrounding suburbs will be labelled 'A Wind Farm Town',

This project is headed to do more damage than good.