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BARHAM
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New South Wales
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The Canyonleigh BESS is being advanced despite unresolved questions regarding long-term environmental impacts, poison, battery degradation, disposal requirements and emergency management.
Precaution should come before approval. Once environmental damage occurs, it cannot be fixed.
Precaution should come before approval. Once environmental damage occurs, it cannot be fixed.
Save Our Surroundings Riverina
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Save Our Surroundings Riverina
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Lake Albert
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New South Wales
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WE ABSOLUTELY OBJECT TO X-ELIO’s CANYONLEIGH BESS BOMB - THE ASBESTOS OF THE FUTURE!
👉🏻Lack of Diligent Risk Research and Futility of Zero Carbon
To NSW Parliament House on June 4, 2026 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Dear Legislative Assembly Member,
As an expert in risk assessment and mitigation at the University of Sydney I was endowed with the status emeritus, recognising these skills in 2011 by The University of Sydney Senate.
Since then, I have been amazed at the unnecessary speed of introduction of renewable wind and solar power stations with almost complete lack of due diligence regarding the huge environmental risks involved.
Given its scale and capability of even changing the climate as our published research shows, this negligence of future risks to farming in hot and often dry, Australia should be found legally culpable, as it would be for normal commercial and industry corporation research.
From my personal expertise in rural risk research I draw your attention to following relevant issues.
(1) My recent appearance and submissions at the Portfolio 4 Committee REZ hearing attached.
This refers to wind turbine power stations drying out their downwind wakes as a result of turbulent warming.
This is an area of my expertise, as shown in our recent publications included.
Bushfire disasters such as those on Maui in 2023, in Athens and more recently in Los Angeles may be caused in future.
Risk research is needed to resolve the issue that the weather is so affected by large wind turbines in hot, dry, Australia. Farming productivity may be reduced and bushfire risk increased.
(2) An attached preprint article to be submitted draws attention to infrasound generated by the high speed impulses of wind turbine blades, using our novel method to estimate maximum electrical power by wind turbines.
Pressure waves generated by t he rear of the blades interacting with steel turbine towers could generate impulses equivalent to infrasound exceeding 150 decibels, possibly propagated several times further than audible sound from turbines.
Risk research for humans, livestock and native animals is needed, because of neglect of this area, shown in Attachment 2 on Mitigating Risks.
(3) My personal submissions opposing the solar power stations at Muswellbrook, Tallawang and Dinawan in NSW predict that tonnes of heavy metals in solar power stations will slowly be leached into several hundred thousands hectares of prime farming soil, binding tightly and preventing their return to producing food or fibre forever. Research to prevent contamination of soil and streams is essential, particularly in extreme risk as in hailstorms: I have requested the University should do such research for the Spark Renewables power station on Arthursleigh, near Marulan.
The purpose of risk assessment is to quantify potential hazards and to develop best management practices to mitigate any serious consequences shown.
Once these aims are achieved diligently, the effectiveness of these best practices must still be checked to verify these benefits.
The almost complete lack of proper field risk research by government and environmental authorities as normally practiced for new agricultural technology is a wanton failure in these procedures.
Desk-top assessments like those conducted by the Planning Commission of NSW are no substitute for valid analyses of these field hazards, always a function of local circumstances.
Australia has many examples of such proper research being conducted with successful results. In own research experience at university, the threat of losing major international markets for months if livestock is polluted, as happened from chlorfluazuron (Helix) contamination in the mid-1990s, is just one serious example.
This tragedy resulted in the introduction of safer chemicals, confirmed by risk research and even the successful protection of crops non-chemically with natural Bt toxins in crops such as cotton; this was promoted by Rachel Carson, though by expressing genes for Bacillus thuringiensis insect toxins.
Apart from infrasound that needs more investigation, bis-phenol and PFAS represent new threats still lacking resolution, as discussed in my main submission to the Victoria Planning Panel Hexham Hearing recently.
It is recommended to the NSW Parliament that the introduction of major renewable energy to mitigate climate change should be suspended for at least 5-10 years, so that essential field risk research is funded to provide information allowing safer locations of power stations.
Suitable monitoring for land pollution by current power stations can also be provided. If climate change can be managed, that will only be achieved by trustworthy verifying research beforehand.
Considering that 91% of Australia’s needs for energy in 2025 were still met by fossil fuels, oil 41%, gas and coal, 25% each, as shown by official government data there is no reason to act with such haste hoping to control global warming.
Renewable wind and solar energy should be investigated carefully, including research on existing wind and solar installations for harmful results such as turbulent drying of landscapes or contamination of soil and livestock with heavy metals leaching from solar panels.
Furthermore, our recent published research given in the Portfolio 4 Committee attachment suggests that the quest for zero carbon may be futile, given the overall cycling of carbon dioxide in planetary terms.
There is no need for undue haste.
For verification of this futility, please consult Google AI with “Thermal calcification Kennedy” for an opinion on our research questioning the IPCC model.
Our published research shows the lability of carbon dioxide.
When the Earth is colder with a higher pH in surface seawater carbon dioxide is absorbed. When it is warming, extra calcification causes a lower surface pH, when carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere.
Yours faithfully,
Ivan Robert Kennedy AM FRACI CChem
Professor Emeritus in Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry School of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Sydney NSW 2006,
Mobile: 0413071796
Ivan R. Kennedy
Emeritus Professor in Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry, University of Sydney Executive Director, Quick Test Technologies
👉🏻Lack of Diligent Risk Research and Futility of Zero Carbon
To NSW Parliament House on June 4, 2026 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Dear Legislative Assembly Member,
As an expert in risk assessment and mitigation at the University of Sydney I was endowed with the status emeritus, recognising these skills in 2011 by The University of Sydney Senate.
Since then, I have been amazed at the unnecessary speed of introduction of renewable wind and solar power stations with almost complete lack of due diligence regarding the huge environmental risks involved.
Given its scale and capability of even changing the climate as our published research shows, this negligence of future risks to farming in hot and often dry, Australia should be found legally culpable, as it would be for normal commercial and industry corporation research.
From my personal expertise in rural risk research I draw your attention to following relevant issues.
(1) My recent appearance and submissions at the Portfolio 4 Committee REZ hearing attached.
This refers to wind turbine power stations drying out their downwind wakes as a result of turbulent warming.
This is an area of my expertise, as shown in our recent publications included.
Bushfire disasters such as those on Maui in 2023, in Athens and more recently in Los Angeles may be caused in future.
Risk research is needed to resolve the issue that the weather is so affected by large wind turbines in hot, dry, Australia. Farming productivity may be reduced and bushfire risk increased.
(2) An attached preprint article to be submitted draws attention to infrasound generated by the high speed impulses of wind turbine blades, using our novel method to estimate maximum electrical power by wind turbines.
Pressure waves generated by t he rear of the blades interacting with steel turbine towers could generate impulses equivalent to infrasound exceeding 150 decibels, possibly propagated several times further than audible sound from turbines.
Risk research for humans, livestock and native animals is needed, because of neglect of this area, shown in Attachment 2 on Mitigating Risks.
(3) My personal submissions opposing the solar power stations at Muswellbrook, Tallawang and Dinawan in NSW predict that tonnes of heavy metals in solar power stations will slowly be leached into several hundred thousands hectares of prime farming soil, binding tightly and preventing their return to producing food or fibre forever. Research to prevent contamination of soil and streams is essential, particularly in extreme risk as in hailstorms: I have requested the University should do such research for the Spark Renewables power station on Arthursleigh, near Marulan.
The purpose of risk assessment is to quantify potential hazards and to develop best management practices to mitigate any serious consequences shown.
Once these aims are achieved diligently, the effectiveness of these best practices must still be checked to verify these benefits.
The almost complete lack of proper field risk research by government and environmental authorities as normally practiced for new agricultural technology is a wanton failure in these procedures.
Desk-top assessments like those conducted by the Planning Commission of NSW are no substitute for valid analyses of these field hazards, always a function of local circumstances.
Australia has many examples of such proper research being conducted with successful results. In own research experience at university, the threat of losing major international markets for months if livestock is polluted, as happened from chlorfluazuron (Helix) contamination in the mid-1990s, is just one serious example.
This tragedy resulted in the introduction of safer chemicals, confirmed by risk research and even the successful protection of crops non-chemically with natural Bt toxins in crops such as cotton; this was promoted by Rachel Carson, though by expressing genes for Bacillus thuringiensis insect toxins.
Apart from infrasound that needs more investigation, bis-phenol and PFAS represent new threats still lacking resolution, as discussed in my main submission to the Victoria Planning Panel Hexham Hearing recently.
It is recommended to the NSW Parliament that the introduction of major renewable energy to mitigate climate change should be suspended for at least 5-10 years, so that essential field risk research is funded to provide information allowing safer locations of power stations.
Suitable monitoring for land pollution by current power stations can also be provided. If climate change can be managed, that will only be achieved by trustworthy verifying research beforehand.
Considering that 91% of Australia’s needs for energy in 2025 were still met by fossil fuels, oil 41%, gas and coal, 25% each, as shown by official government data there is no reason to act with such haste hoping to control global warming.
Renewable wind and solar energy should be investigated carefully, including research on existing wind and solar installations for harmful results such as turbulent drying of landscapes or contamination of soil and livestock with heavy metals leaching from solar panels.
Furthermore, our recent published research given in the Portfolio 4 Committee attachment suggests that the quest for zero carbon may be futile, given the overall cycling of carbon dioxide in planetary terms.
There is no need for undue haste.
For verification of this futility, please consult Google AI with “Thermal calcification Kennedy” for an opinion on our research questioning the IPCC model.
Our published research shows the lability of carbon dioxide.
When the Earth is colder with a higher pH in surface seawater carbon dioxide is absorbed. When it is warming, extra calcification causes a lower surface pH, when carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere.
Yours faithfully,
Ivan Robert Kennedy AM FRACI CChem
Professor Emeritus in Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry School of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Sydney NSW 2006,
Mobile: 0413071796
Ivan R. Kennedy
Emeritus Professor in Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry, University of Sydney Executive Director, Quick Test Technologies
Dianne James
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Dianne James
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GOULBURN
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New South Wales
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Please refer to Attachment.
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Save Our Surroundings Swan Hill
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Save Our Surroundings Swan Hill
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Swan Hill
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New South Wales
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BESS BOMBS introduce extremely risky battery fires, thermal runaway incidents and hazardous smoke emissions.
Emergency response challenges remain a major concern for local residents.
None of these toxic BESS disasters should ever proceed at all as they are a failed experiment - that threatens public health and safety.
Emergency response challenges remain a major concern for local residents.
None of these toxic BESS disasters should ever proceed at all as they are a failed experiment - that threatens public health and safety.