The tragic toxic emissions in battery fire scenarios, long-term contamination affecting soil and water systems, biodiversity and the public is NOT CLEAN.

Escalating consumer electricity costs from intermittent system integration, reliance on imported materials and manufacturing causing vulnerability in critical energy supply chains is anbsolutely UNACCEPTABLE!

Australia has far superior, sovereign, 24/7 COAL and NUCLEAR power sources with minimal environmental footprint that limits fragmentation of endangered woodland ecosystems and protects endangered species like the Gang Gang Cockatoo on this site.

X-Eliot’s lithium-ion battery scam is the antithesis of protecting nature as it presents highly hazardous fire risks that also threaten public health and safety - introducing contamination pathways through chemical leakage and fire byproducts.

The Australian public are sick to death of predatory TransGrid’s ASEAN Power Grid agenda escalating our electricity bills all the time so they’re unaffordable and our cost of living is causing chaos.

Relying on hostile, global supply chains concentrated in China is nonsensical and treacherous - with national security exposure through critical infrastructure dependence not being managed in our best interests by the Beijing benefiting NSW Government.

The recognised battery fire hazards involving toxic gases from Canyonleigh BESS will inevitably result in seriously harmful, toxic Public Health and Safety Risks, environmental contamination of surrounding land, water and biodiversity as well as out of control cost burdens on electricity consumers for shonky system support.

Reliance on CCP controlled battery manufacturing supply chains exposes our critical energy infrastructure to our greatest enemy which must immediately be stopped - with no more toxic contaminating, insecure, unregulated Solar/Wind/BESS imports at all from China.

X-Elio’s poisonous BESS plan introduces highly significant fire hazard in this rural setting with poisonous public health and safety risks and detrimental impacts to critically endangered species from toxic environmental contamination during thermal events.
This Canyonleigh disaster will contribute to electricity price chaos through out of control grid and storage costs.

Depending on hostile battery supply chains with dangerous strategic dependency makes no sense - whatsoever - only to the vested interest parasites and the NSW Government - who are not protecting its citizens.

I object due to fire risks associated with lithium-ion battery systems, release of lethal combustion gases - including hydrogen fluoride - during likely FIRE events, exposure of nearby biodiversity to poisonous contamination, reliance on torturous slave labour supply chains dominated by overseas manufacturers, ever-rising electricity system costs unjustly hurting Australian consumers as well as wrecking industry, productivity and our economy.

The treacherous national security dependence on hostile enemies that X-Elio’s Canyonleigh BESS presents is totally unacceptable.

The blow out cost to the taxpayer.
The toxicity to the environment and the community.
Majority minerals and parts by overseas companies that use slave like conditions.
More research and evidence is coming out how BESS's or any renewable projects and transmission lines are not CHEAP, are not CLEAN and are not RELIABLE.
It is not a way forward to sure up our current energy system.

Poor insight, poor management and no critical thinking, therefore weak leadership and this is one project to highlight this.

DUMP THE UNCLEAN, UNETHICAL, UNREGULATED, UNRELIABLE, INSECURE RenewaBULL RORT and INTERCONNECTOR NIGHTMARE!

STOP TORTURING THE PUBLIC WITH ENERGY POVERTY and the COMMUNIST CONTROLLING CCP’s ASEAN POWER GRID AGENDA - DESIGNED TO WEAKEN AUSTRALIA and MAKE CHINA STRONG.

WE NEED NEW AUSTRALIAN HELE COAL PLANTS BUILT ASAP!

Response from Environmental Goods and Product Safety Section within the Australian Border Force (ABF) - regarding Importation of Banned PFOS & ASBESTOS in Solar/Wind/BESS Components:->
FEEDBACK (IMMI-26-00117-1) [SEC=OFFICIAL] OFFICIAL - 03/02/2026

Dear ........
Thank you for your feedback (Ref: IMMI-26-00117-1) to the Department of Home Affairs Global Feedback Unit on 3 January 2026 concerning PFAS/PFOS, Bisphenol A and asbestos contained in imported goods by Renewable Energy Companies such as; solar panels, inverters, wind turbine components, electrical wiring and lithium ion batteries – and including the contamination caused by disposal of these products.
Your feedback has been forwarded to my section, the Environmental Goods and Product Safety Section within the Australian Border Force (ABF) for a response and advice.
the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is Australia’s lead policy and regulatory agency for the management of hazardous industrial chemicals, which is implemented through the Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Standard (IChEMS).
IChEMS establishes nationally consistent standards for managing the import, export, manufacture, use and disposal of industrial chemicals to reduce impacts on the environment.
While PFAS chemicals, including PFOA, are not yet prohibited at the Australian Border, they are listed in IChEMS as a high risk chemical group, and are regulated domestically within Australia. Bisphenol A is also listed in IChEMS and is being considered for scheduling by DCCEEW but is not a prohibited chemical at the Australian Border.
We have received the below advice from DCCEEW on the PFAS regulations for your consideration:
● The Australian Government expects that introducers, exporters and users of PFAS comply with the standards set out in IChEMS.
● Regulation, or enforcement, of standards is reliant on adoption by the Commonwealth, states and territories into their own environmental laws.
● Jurisdictions are at various stages of incorporating the IChEMS into their own regulatory frameworks.
● The Commonwealth is exploring its legislative options for enforcing the prohibitions and restrictions on importation and manufacture and use in Commonwealth areas as prescribed in the standards.
The Commonwealth will work with introducers and users as it develops implementing legislation

and considers the practicality and appropriateness of different operating models.
● Until new legislation is available there is a unique opportunity for industry to establish compliant supply arrangements and business practices without penalties applying.
For further information on what the Australian Government is doing in relation to managing and restricting the use, import, manufacture and disposal of PFAS containing products, please visit the DCCEEW website at Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) - DCCEEW.
You may also wish to contact DCCEEW by email at [email protected]
In regard to your concerns for asbestos, the ABF is responsible for enforcing border controls for very high volumes of goods that cross the Australian Border every day, and every effort is made to identify and prevent goods containing asbestos from entering Australia.
● Australia is one of the few countries in the Asia-Pacific region that has a comprehensive ban on all six types of asbestos.
● In many countries, despite the known threat to human health, local standards allow manufacturers to use low levels of types of asbestos.
● Goods manufactured outside Australia might be labelled asbestos free and still contain low levels of asbestos.
● It is the responsibility of importers and exporters to ensure they do not import or export prohibited goods such as asbestos.
The ABF must be assured that asbestos containing goods are not unlawfully crossing the border.
Regarding your concerns for unregulated and no accreditation body to determine the toxic public health and safety risks of renewable infrastructure and the contamination to the environment by the disposal of such renewable energy products, please also visit the DCCEEW website at the following links, for further information on how the Australian Government is managing these issues.
Home - DCCEEW
Renewable energy developments and environmental protection - DCCEEW Exporting, importing or transiting hazardous waste - DCCEEW
Thank you for your feedback. Joshua
Position number: 49000643 OFFICIAL

The Canyonleigh BESS is promoted as environmentally beneficial while relying on industrial mining, extensive resource extraction and large-scale manufacturing.
The embedded emissions are massive and the toxic waste ECOCIDAL!

The full environmental cost of poisonous battery production and operational hazards has been totally ignored in this disingenuous scam.
Environmental protection considers the entire lifecycle of a project - which is always ignored by UNclean RECKLESS
RUIN-A-BULLS.

The public are being ripped off by the fake green RenewaBULL industry that’s heavily subsidised by us long suffering electricity consumers - with government intervention prioritising dodgy predators with never ending incentives and regulatory preferences.

Taxpayers and consumers should not be expected to underwrite projects that struggle to stand on their own economic merits - like this dodgy BESS.

Energy investment must immediately prioritise genuine AUSTRALIAN POWER that’s cheap, secure and reliable.

🛑STOP🛑 the Industrialisation of Productive Rural Land!
The Canyonleigh BESS would detrimentally transform valuable rural landscapes into a toxic contaminating industrial energy dump!

The project imposes poison, ugly visual amenity, construction disruption and unwelcome, long-term industrial hazards on an agricultural district.

Rural communities should not be forced to sacrifice their iconic character and Intergenerational Equity for China’s Toxic Trojan Horse Energy Scam.