RYE PARK WIND FARM PROJECT:

I wish to submit my approval of this project for the following reasons:

We live in a neighbouring village which will benefit from this proposal from extra casual employment during the building phase and $300,000 of each year will be paid directly to community organisations through the legislated Community Enhancement Fund contribution which will help enormously the infrastructure of the area.

There will be 39 full time ongoing jobs available providing more people working in the community which will ensure the future of local schools and sporting teams and means more money being spent in the community - which stimulates business and creates more jobs.

There will be 109 turbines on the ridges and in the valleys surrounding our area which will generate 1,192 Gigawatt hours (GWh) per annum. This is enough electricity to power 130,000 homes, the equivalent of removing 260,000 cars. The carbon footprint is estimated to be paid back in nine months.

Rye Park's strong and consistent wind makes a wind farm an efficient use of
agricultural land. A solar farm would need to cover about 750 ha's with solar panels to
produce the same amount of energy as this project. By contrast, this project impacts
just 100 ha's of the total project site of 13,500 ha's.

The financial resilience of the local farming economy will be increased and help farmers manage periods of drought and fickle commodity prices.

The construction of the wind farm and associated infrastructure will have negligible
impact on continued grazing activities. The wind farm will mostly use existing farm
tracks and virtually all electrical cabling within the wind farm will run underground. Using the ridges and valleys will minimize the visual impact of the towers.

Unlike coalburning power plants, wind farms use no water in their operation, leaving
local rivers and creeks untouched.

The developer is required to make good on any road damage incurred through the
construction period. Experience from other wind farms in Australia strongly indicates
that local council roads are actually improved by the presence of a wind farm.

I do not support the use of wind turbine as a source for power generation. the ROI for wind turbines makes it a less than viable solution. the noise that is generated by these units is also unacceptable to the people that live nearby.
This should be a solar farm. the panels will outlast the turbines 100 fold and cause no issues due to no moving parts.
I cannot condone tax payers dollars being spent in this manner.

We are 100% in favour of the development of the Rye Park Wind Farm. We are excited about the community being involved in what is the renewable energy resource of the future. We feel that there will be a great positive flow on effect , from the jobs created and general upgrade of roads and infrastructure, that all the district will benefit from.

YES
- I am satisfied that this development will have an economic boost to the community
- I am happy that Trustpower has entered into Neighbourhood agreements
-this project will come with a community enhancement fund which will benefit the whole community

I wish to OBJECT to the above proposal.

I understand my property, which I have owned since 2013, is less than 2kms from the proposed wind farm, yet I have received absolutely no correspondence, information or consultation about the proposal. I have had to rely on neighbours' recent updates as I do NOT have internet access. Not all of us live in a castle or sit in an office all day every day.

My objections are based on the following:

1. Negligence of developer to contact surrounding property owners. Given the scale of the proposal, it is not unreasonable to expect an equivalent scale to contact those who are most affected. Withholding information from new owners since... when? 2008??? at least 2013 - that I know for a fact, is not acceptable.

2. Environmental impact on native fauna, flora, habitats, communities, domestic stock, cultural and heritage items. The impact of this proposal is catastrophic and contravenes all local, regional and state environmental instruments. In our small estate alone, the impact is immeasurable as it contains all of the above which we would be devastated to lose (inevitable if this proposal goes ahead).

3. Value of properties. Although I personally do not consider the monetary value of my property of importance, the intrinsic value of my property, the estate, the township and all surrounding areas is of incredible value to all of us. This proposal will destroy all we hold dear, not only for those of us who are horrified at this proposed monstrosity and are currently attempting to protect the land and people we love, but for countless of future generations.

4. Impact on enjoyment of properties. I have absolutely no doubt that the noise, health, environmental, aesthetic, construction/maintenance issues of this proposal will not just impact, but actually DESTROY all enjoyment of our properties, both commercially and privately.

I ask that these objections be considered with a view by the decision maker that this proposal is next to your own home. Imagine if this proposal was next to your house? This is NOT a suitable location for this project. I would be happy to elaborate on any or all of the above at any time.

Thanking you and kind regards.

Yes I Strongly support this major project.

Our property has been a family concern for almost 100 years.

With reduced income and increasing running costs this could potentially mean that the next generation will have to move from the area to seek other employment. This will inevitablty effect our small schools and nearby towns.

The introduction of the Wind Farm will have a positive effect on the above matters of concern by introducing employment and necessary income for land owners. It will not effect the numbers of livestock or the management of the farms and will improve access with maintained roads.

Biodiversity Assessment Addendum Section 5.6 Collision Risks:

Who do these Clowns think their fooling?

They have increased Blade Diameter from 90 to 130 metres, dropped the Blade Arc from 45 metres above ground to 27 metres above ground and yet the they maintain statements such as:

"is unlikely to result in a significant impact to the Superb Parrot"
The Rainbow Bee-eater will just Dodge the extrat blades;
That the Powerful Owl just hangs out around its tree hollow and roost sites 24/7. Do these Clowns expect us to believe that the Powerfull Owl doesn't actually fly around its 30km by 30 km range at night seeking a meal.

Blade stike with blades at 27 meters above ground, and a few metres above tree tops will be inevitable.

These assursions (pp 48-51) are just wilding optimistic wind turbine propaganda and totally fail any "sanity test".

This Project should be thrown out in full, these people have no credibility.

PP 42 of the Biodiversity Assessment Addendum states under 5.2.1. that the loss of 240 ha of native vegetation including 2 EEC's is "recognised but not considered to be substantial in this context".

What scale or measure are they using, the loss of 240 ha of native vegetation is substantial, no farmer in the south east of NSW or anywhere in Victoria would be able to get away with this!

Obviously NSW applies 2 sets of rules, one for uncontrolled wind turbine proposals on the basis of winding Sydney's Green Vote, another for NSW's rural citizens.

This submission totally avoids the cumulative effect of land clearing associated with other approved Wind Energy Industrial complexs such as Yass Valley, Conroys Gap, Culerain Range, Crookwell and on and on and on.

The cumulative effect on land clearing of threatened EEC's in southern NSW from Industrial Wind developments is potenitally devastating to the Yellow Box Red Gum Woodland. This EEC the subject on 100's or landowner Landcare Projects supported by Federal Funding. Therefore on the one hand you have farmers trying to restore Yellow Box EEC and on the other hand the Wind Industry Dozing it over with the consent and blessing of an inept NSW Planning system.

The Rye Park Wind Facility Biodiversity Assessment Addendum does not rate any of it's impacts on the environment as significant, and yet it involves:
100 km of new formed tracks;
12.5 km of 330 kv Power line easements;
18.6 km of new tracts for the above easements.
16 has of permanent damage to soil by footings and hardstands.

By any measure these impacts are significant.

What scale do these energy speculators use?