Put simply, my son and i are both quite severe asthmatics and have many pets as well. These toxic emissions will mean we need to move and financially this is not the best solution for our family right now. There has to be better locations with less surrounding residential blocks.

Dear Government
I am very concerned about the worlds biggest incinerator that is going to be built!! This is awful! I am so scared! Please don't let it happen! I will have to move schools! It is very serious to environment and most importantly human health! Please don't let the people of Western Sydney be tortured with this toxic incinerator! Isn't it the governments job to look after the people and help their needs and health? What good is it to burden us with this awful toxic thing? Don't you care about the lives you will ruin? Or don't you? Is burning rubbish more important than helping lives? Well certainly not! This is the most outrageous thing the government could possibly ever do! Is this some sought of joke? Please don't let this happen! I don't want to get a disease or cancer because of this! Think of all the desperate people that don't want this to happen! Think of me!
Kind Regards
Gemma Doyle

Dear Government
I am very concerned about the worlds biggest incinerator that is going to be built!! This is awful! I am so scared! Please don't let it happen! I will have to move schools! It is very serious to environment and most importantly human health! Please don't let the people of Western Sydney be tortured with this toxic incinerator! Isn't it the governments job to look after the people and help their needs and health? What good is it to burden us with this awful toxic thing? Don't you care about the lives you will ruin? Or don't you? Is burning rubbish more important than helping lives? Well certainly not! This is the most outrageous thing the government could possibly ever do! Is this some sought of joke? Please don't let this happen! I don't want to get a disease or cancer because of this! Think of all the desperate people that don't want this to happen! Think of me!
Kind Regards
Gemma Doyle

Putting the world's largest incinerator in a highly populated area like Western Sydney is a terrible idea - residents deserve better.

We don't want any more toxins - especially dioxin - in our densely populated Sydney basin. The community does not want the biggest incinerator in the world at E Creek! NO!!

As a mother of 4, a citizen of the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains and a keen environmentalist, I am gravely concerned about construction of a waste facility at Eastern Creek. The hazards for health concerns are readily acknowledged for this project and are being seemingly disregarded. Eastern Creek is not an appropriate site for this project due to the pollution ramifications and the health concerns to nearby residents. Enough is enough, western Sydney, on the door of our beautiful national park is not the place for this grotesquely inconsiderate proposal.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I STRONGLY OBJECT TO THE EASTERN CREEK WESTERN SYDNEY INCINERATOR PROJECT (NEXT GENERATION ENERGY FROM WASTE FACILITY) AND ASK THAT IT BE REJECTED!

Some of my main serious concerns follow:

1. Pollution and Traffic

Sydney residents are already exposed to excessive pollutants that are causing serious health ailments. We do not want any more toxic emissions smog being trapped and lingering in the air we breathe, especially so in Sydney Basin's atmospheric temperature inversion effect!!
The Proposed Incinerator site at Eastern Creek is not only central to the densely populated Sydney Basin, but also close to residential areas including family homes and three nearby schools, Minchinbury Public School, James Erskine Primary and Erskine Park High School. Exposing young people to pollutants and air borne fine particles < PM2.5, is especially risky and serious.
Releasing more toxic emissions into our communities' air creates even worse health outcomes for Sydney families, in particular those in Western Sydney. This is particularly so as these emissions include dioxin, which even at low levels, should not be proposed in our highly populated Sydney Basin which already suffers from pollution trapped by its inverted atmospheric effect!

For Australia to comply with its international obligations under the Stockholm Treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants it should not approve any waste incinerators.

A report released Saturday 21st January 2017 by the Committee of Sydney shows Blacktown as an area already with high rates of cardiovascular disease, and Incinerator emission will only increase these rates further. The world's largest incinerator proposed for Blacktown LGA will not comply with the Health Commission's directive for better health outcomes for Western Sydney families. It will only give us outcomes far worse for health.

Incinerator waste is admitted to be continually changing, so therefore the chemical nature of the incinerator emissions will also and therefore likewise the potential for adverse health effects. Toxic metals such as arsenic, mercury, cadmium and dioxin are universally present in incinerator emissions and present in high concentrations in the fly ash. Any addition of these Persistent Organic Pollutants, however small, to the Western Sydney community's air shed compromises our health, particularly for our children. The only method to eliminate and minimise dioxin formation from waste management is to avoid incineration and adopt alternatives.

Given that more toxic emissions will be released into our communities' breathing air shed, it clearly cannot be claimed that the project would create "better health outcomes for Western Sydney Families"!

Also, why should the nearby families have to put up with 3 years of construction noise pollution - "Generally the works are to be carried out during the day, however some activities require continuous construction and therefore may take place outside of standard working hours".
Once the Incinerator is up and running 24 hours a day 7 days per week, the noise of running the Incinerator, enormously increased heavy vehicle traffic and fumes will seriously impact on the health and amenity of families and individuals.


2. "Green and Renewable Energy" Misinformation and Climate Change

The Next Generation's Environmental Impact Statement for the Incinerator states:
"the main objectives of the proposed development are to offer a viable alternative to the burning of fossil fuels by utilising a green and renewable energy source capable of servicing approximately 200,000 homes through the export of 137.3 MW energy ..."!
This is clearly incorrect and grossly misleading. To state this as a main objective, in itself, leads the public to doubt the veracity of everything else that the proponent claims!
The content of the Next Generation NSW Pty Ltd' amended Environmental Impact Statement does not comply with "The Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000", which specifically excludes fossil fuel based materials such as plastics and wood.
Also, MW is not a unit of "energy", but a unit of "power".

Mass combustion Incinerators rank as one of the dirtiest known forms of energy, producing far more carbon dioxide per unit of energy generated than coal, oil or gas fired power stations. Burning waste fuels based on carbon and petrochemicals, which are fossil fuels, and burning plastics derived from fossil fuels does not create "green" energy.

To argue this waste would otherwise break down in landfill to (extremely damaging greenhouse) methane gas is incorrect for plastics in the time frame of this our "critical decade" to address climate change and misleading in respect to other waste, which should all be trapped and burnt for energy at the landfill site as already occurs at some sites.


3. Support for the Submissions of Blacktown City Council and of Resident Melinda Wilson

I would also like to give wholehearted support generally for the numerous additional concerns raised in the submissions of Blacktown City Council and of resident Melinda Wilson in objecting to and opposing the proposed "The New Generation" Incinerator Project. I would rather name it more appropriately "The Noxious Generation" Incinerator and urge its rejection!


4. Conclusion

The TNG Incinerator project in my judgement is NOT in the public interest, is NOT ecologically or socially sustainable and is of dubious true economic value, especially when health, environmental and other costs are taken into account!


Phil Bradley (BEng - Civil & Grad Dip Ed)

I do not agree with this being built so close to homes, schools and the general public, what a disgrace.

I object to the waste facility that is proposed for Eastern Creek because of the health risks. There are no exact details on what exactly will be incinerated and who will be running the facility. Our house prices will also decrease. Tourism in the west is currently increasing with the completion of Wet n Wild and the proposed zoo but who is going to visit the area if their health is going to be at risk.

Hello,

My opposition is based on concerns for the potential impact on health of my family and property prices.

Whilst this proposal may use world best practices and modeling of the possible health impacts to our suburb there are no definitive guarantees the said output will not cause harm to our health - especially running 24/7.

I simply will not live in the area should such a structure be built so close to our homes and family's.