I along with many people live in one of the surrounding suburbs and DO NOT want this to be built anywhere near the greater western areas

I think this proposal is ludicrous. This should not be built in such a highly populated area close to our homes and schools. Western Sydney deserves better.

I am opposed to Eastern Creek Incinerator.

My concerns are primarily around:
* the air quality
* the increased traffic
* the danger to children

The students of Minchinbury Public School are likely to spend a great deal more time indoors during recess and lunch time if the air is heavily polluted.
Students with health conditions including asthma will be unable to spend decent periods of time outdoors.
Part of growing up and being at school is forming social relationships. Many social relationships are established outdoors. It would be disappointing and detrimental to the students' emotional well-being if they were consistently unable to interact with one another in clean air.

Let me state again...I am opposed to the incinerator.

reject

I object to the Next Generation Energy from Waste Facility, Eastern Creek proposal based on the following points.

1) The EIS submission fails to list in detail possible contaminants including a range of measurements (of those contaminants) that could be released into the atmosphere in normal operation, or what a failure (either minimal or catastrophic) would look like in terms of emissions. This is not an acceptable level of information for a proposal of this nature, let alone one that is adjacent to urban and residential areas. This lack of information does not allow for reasoned review or analysis.

2) The facility claims to be a clean energy proposal however the proposal, on closer scrutiny, is in fact powered by diesel or gas and only combusts waste material as a part of the process. Apart from waste incineration, this proposal provides negligible benefit over a conventional diesel generator or gas powered power station.

3) Power stations are generally not built in urban environments; I believe this proposal is outside of the intent of the NSW Department of Environment and Planning's development guidelines for the Eastern Creek Industrial zone.

4) The Stockholm Convention (UN GUIDELINES ON BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES AND PROVISIONAL GUIDANCE ON BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES relevant to Article 5 and Annex C of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2007) in its summary on Waste Incinerators, concludes that priority should be given to alternatives to Waste Incinerators including improved recycling and the prevention of the formation and release of persistent organic pollutants. This proposal does not meet or attempt to comply with either of these goals. European evidence has shown that the alternatives, increased re-use and recycling of waste are adversely affected by waste incineration. The Energy from Waste Facility proposal does not offer or provide `best environmental practices'.

5) The submission (by Next Generation) is to design and construct (not to operate) the Energy from Waste facility, it is clear from the lack of detail, e.g. regarding the waste content (only 45% coming from Genesis Waste Centre) that this separation between building and operating the facility, provides the public with little or no re-assurance that actual environmental risks of the plant in operation will be either adequately assessed or mitigated.

6) The EIS is not on display for a reasonable amount of time based on the size of the document (approximately three thousand pages). My submission, due to these constraints can only be based on an overview and not a detailed assessment.

7) The visual impact of building a 100 metre high pollution stack 1 kilometre from residential houses is significant. This is not in keeping with the profile of the adjoining residential or industrial area and should not be accepted in its current form or location.

I would like to strongly oppose the Incinerator being built close to where i live. I have done my research on similar facilities and the envirnmental hazards it causes far outweighs any benifits it brings.

A big NO from my side - not in my backyard please. Minchinbury is just 800 metres from the proposed site. How could the government even consider it is beyond imagination - This will have a drastic effect to everyone living in suburbs like Minchinbury, Colyton, Erskine Park, Prospect (with the water exposed to the deadly fumes)

This plant should not be approved. Toxic and carcinogenic fumes to be released into the air. And then into our water supply. Please get the cancer institutes response on releasing carcinogenics soo close to suburbs with dense population. No air filter is fool proof and you are going to risk the lives of innocent young families in western sydney. There is no real economic gain here, there are much better ways to generate jobs for the state. Without risking the population of western sydney's health. Unless nsw gov is willing to spent hundreds of millions of dollars treating the population of western sydney who will get sick and/or cancer. DO NOT approve this proposal.

I would like to strongly object the building of a toxic incinerator 1 Km from my home. The envirmental hazards that it will cause will make it unbearable to live in the surrouding areas.
It is hard to understand how could the government entertain the idea of building a facility that will emit toxic fumes so close to residential houses.
Humble plea to the planning minister - Please think about the peple who live in the surrounding areas and do the honourable thing. The health of the community is far more important than any advantages this project is going to bring

I live less then 10 mins away from this new plant. And I did not know about this plant until yesterday!!!

Lots of people I know, still don't know about this plantation! This is scary considering the long term potential health outcomes of this plant. And soo close to the backup water supply to western sydney. Have people forgotten about the drought and water shortages, when prospect resiviour was used? Water security and clean safe water is basic right for people of western sydney. Western sydney has a large population, such a crucial thing should not be placed on risk on the basis on a company wanting to make money. Where is the greater good factor here?

I strongly urge nsw environment agency not to approve this. The potential for this to go wrong is too huge. Do not risk it.

Also I dont think the company distribute these leaflets to people within 5-10km of such toxic fumes. As I know plenty of people in rooty hill and Mt druitt who did not get these phamlets. This is wrong and dangerous on sooo many levels. Do not approve this!!!! People's lives are not a joke, especially for busy working families who come out west for a affordable, better life.

My husband and I live in Doonside: Both of us are against this proposal, It should not be in a residential area for the following reasons:
 There is the potential for hazardous material,the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) are inaccurate and do
not consider the Australian context as local current Australian regulations have not been applied.
The air quality and greenhouse gas assessment is incomplete The odour assessment, soil and water assessment, and site contamination investigations
are incomplete and not undertaken in accordance with relevant guidelines.
 The EIS provides misleading information about the reuse of ash and it is likely that it will be sent to landfill
Incineration, regardless of how it may be presented as being "environmentally friendly" by placing an EfW plant alongside, still emits potentially harmful emissions.