The turbines are in full view from our house we are starting to build.
This is my parents retirement plan and now it's ruined. Not only has it dropped the value of my parents property but the actual issues around site and sound are very concerning. Please reconsider

My property is located on lilyvale road where I enjoy 650 acres of land with my family.
We are in the process of building a house and this is now going to be overlooking more turbines then I ever imagined. This was my retirement plan and after my rejection to EPYC where they offered me a ridiculous sum due to my visual impact (my entire 180 degree view is now covered in turbines) I am unsure as to my retirement future.
I cannot tell you how stressful this situation is and with the future uncertain, I hope a reasonable amount of common sense into the decision is considered.

My property is located on lilyvale road where I enjoy 650 acres of land with my family.
We are in the process of building a house and this is now going to be overlooking more turbines then I ever imagined. This was my retirement plan and after my rejection to EPYC where they offered me a ridiculous sum due to my visual impact (my entire 180 degree view is now covered in turbines) I am unsure as to my retirement future.
I cannot tell you how stressful this situation is and with the future uncertain, I hope a reasonable amount of common sense into the decision is considered.

Objections: ugly visual amenity in a populous rural residential area; environmental impacts including construction sites, concrete plant, sub.station, impact on abundant wildlife in this area, electromagnetic radiation, impact on Reedy Creek waterway, road risks and hazards for school buses on kings highway and Tarago roads, increased traffic on one of the highest density traffic highways in NSW, construction noise, industrial wind turbine noise, devaluing property, risk of fire hazard in native bushland, concern about the greed in construction of the number, height and size of the industrial wind turbines, already too many constructed and proposed industrial wind turbines in this area of nsw

Objections: ugly visual amenity in a populous rural residential area; environmental impacts including construction sites, concrete plant, sub.station, impact on abundant wildlife in this area, electromagnetic radiation, impact on Reedy Creek waterway, road risks and hazards for school buses on kings highway and Tarago roads, increased traffic on one of the highest density traffic highways in NSW, construction noise, industrial wind turbine noise, devaluing property, risk of fire hazard in native bushland, concern about the greed in construction of the number, height and size of the industrial wind turbines, already too many constructed and proposed industrial wind turbines in this area of nsw

My submission relates to the sheer number of residents in the proposed Jupiter Wind farm project area.
EPYC indicates that there are 63 homes within 2 km of a turbine and a further 215 between 2 kms and 5kms giving a total of 278 homes within 5 kms. On average I estimate that there is conservatively 3 persons per household, using this as a guide we have 189 people within 2 km and 645 from 2kms to 5 kms, a total of 834 affected people within 5 km of this proposed industrial project area. I find this unacceptable and strongly object to this proposal in particulur the obtrusive visual impacts this will have on most residents. I am not anti renewable energy, I live off the grid on solar power and have for 15 years. I believe this project has been sited in the wrong area as this in nature is a high rural residential area.

Christopher Tomlinson

I object to the proposed Industrial Jupiter wind farm being built in the Tarago area.
Tarago and surrounding districts has become over the past ten years a highly sought-after location for those who wish to leave suburban areas and seek a rural lifestyle. A primary influence in that decision is the rural outlook and views, and dwellings have been built on properties to take advantage of this. The proposed turbines have in many cases been sited in the direct view of a vast number of residents with most effected people having multiple turbines as close as 1 to 2 kms away. I will see approximately 14 turbines at 2.8 km which may sound like quite a distance but when you consider that the proposed turbines are to be 173 meters tall or a 55 story building, this makes the project unacceptably close.

Firstly let me say I am not opposed to the idea of wind farms, I am opposed to wind farms being located in the wrong place as with the Jupiter wind farm project.

There may be some merit in wind farms but I must say that I haven't found that to be true to date as to achieve any reduction in CO2 emissions a coal powered power plant would need to be shut down. As we all know wind farms require 100% back up from another source be it coal or gas so when the wind stops the power doesn't.

I would like to make two observations of some of the information supplied in the EIS.
Firstly, the photo-montages depicting the visual impact on some of the closest residents is grossly misleading. For example, I live close to the Capital wind farm and I stood on the side of the road 1.6 kms from turbines. I can tell you now that the photo-montages at 1.6 kms look insignificant compared to the real thing. I don't know if this has been done deliberately to deceive the department and the public or are the consultants just incompetent.

Secondly, I see photo-montages showing mitigating proposals of tree planting to partially obscure the turbines. Unless EPYC is going to supply fully grown trees it will take ten to twenty years to grow seedlings to the height that would be required to do the job, if they survive!

So yes I strongly object to the proposed Jupiter wind farm.

Nicholas Tomlinson

We purchased our property twenty years ago with the aim of raising our children in a tranquil rural setting with beautiful views of the distant hills as a deciding factor in positioning our home. Since then we have seen the construction of Capital wind farm 18 km away and Woodlawn wind farm 14 kms away of which we see seven turbines. The Jupiter proposal will be 2.8 km away with 14 turbines directly in our view.

I home school six of our children therefore spending the majority of my time at home. My husband and I also have six of our adult children still living with us. We moved from a busy position on the highway in the Blue Mountains to what we planned to be our last move and permanent home.
Most of the rural lifestyle blocks are between 25 and a few hundred acres in this area and we have come to know many of our neighbours who have moved here for similar reasons.

The proposed Jupiter wind farm will be 2.8 km to the west of our home directly in our view. The intrusion of the fourteen turbines we will see is a blight on the landscape and one that will be impossible to block out. Even if we plant trees to block out what we can, we will be changing the reason we built here in the first place, that is the view of the hills in the distance.

Being directly down wind of the proposed wind farm will also create a noise problem that we can do without.

I believe a wind farm proposal should never have been considered in such a high rural residential area with over 500 residential lifestyle building blocks within 5 kms of the project area.

Elizabeth Tomlinson

I OPPOSE the Jupiter Wind Farm being built near our slice of paradise and its fauna. We have discovered a Wedgetail eagle eyrie (large nest), on our property. The wedgetail eagles breed every second year at this eyrie and we have had three beautiful eagles soaring majestically over the area at various times. Their range is not just our property - it is kilometres around their eyrie. What happens when they swoop near a wind turbine? And what about the lose of their habitate?
Other birds of prey - Falcons, Harriers, Hawks, Kites, as well as Owls have been observed or heard in our area. What of them with wind turbines in the area?
In the dusk of the evening micro Bats can be seen swooping to catch bugs in the air. Do they understand what a moving blade is?
Glossy Black Cockatoos are also in our area; feeding on the She-oaks (Casuarina) on the properties on and around Barnet Estate and some lucky residents have them drinking at their dams. Will they know not to go near the turbines?
I OPPOSE the Jupiter Wind Farm being built near our slice of paradise and its fauna.