Dear sir / madam,

I am making this submission as a landholder in the subject project but also as a businessman and a community member .
This project will have huge benefit to the Yass district simulating many businesses not only during the construction phase but also on going with the completed project requiring maintenance teams etc .
Whilst farmers in the subject area are having better financial times currently , farming is a cyclical business and the additional income to farmers in the area ( from the Windfarm ) will help smooth out and improve the abilty of farmers to remain economic over the longer term.....everyone benefits from this .
The subject project is largely away from hobby farm activity and in my view the visual impact is minimal ....
For farming to remain viable long term we need to contribute to keeping the planet at no more than 1.5 degrees C increase and for Australia to do it's bit we need to increase our renewable levels
People directly benefiting from this proposed project that I have spoken to are progressive farmers and realise that climatic change is happening and are keen to do their bit to assist the global community deal with the issue .
This project supports the recently released NSW Goverment paper on the path way to change our energy mix to a more sustainable one and one that in the longer term is cheaper than burning fossil fuels .
Finally, Yass sitting in the southern tablelands ( including Canberra) in my view has to be one of Australia's most supportive communities to move to renewable future and this project underwrites that wider community view.

I support this project as a financial beneficiary but equally as a member of the greater regional community

Robert Purves AM

I am the son of a farming family that live in Galong and own a property in Rye Park. The property they own in Rye Park is in line to receive a number of wind turbines. The benefits of this proposed wind farm are numerous and far reaching.
Primarily, it will provide a much needed supplementary income for a number of farmers that have struggled through years of drought and hard times. It will allow my own parents to build a house on the farm which they work, which has been a dream ever since owning the property.
The Bango wind farm will join others across the Southern Tablelands region to secure the region as a very important part of NSW's clean energy industry.

The Bango wind farm will inject new life into the Rye Park/Boorowa community through a community enhancement fund, long term employment for locals and economic stimulation. I believe that CWP entered into positive neighbourhood agreements that hold mutual benefit for the community and themselves.
Finally, on a wider scale utilising wind power as a source of green energy is integral for our environment. There is minimal impact on land use, high energy production efficiency and it is of course a renewable resource.
I strongly support the proposed wind farm and hope that it goes ahead.

My family owns a grazing property in Rye Park and I am a strong supporter of wind farms for Australia's future for renewable energy. We have been trying to get a wind farm developed on our property since 2012, as it is a development that will help meet Australia's growing demand for electricity whilst reducing green house gas emissions.
The Bango wind farm will join others across the Southern Tablelands region to secure the region as a very important part of NSW's clean energy industry.
There will be a direct injection of about $4 million per year to the local community through payments to landholders, permanent staff, local councils, and the community.
This project will create new jobs to boost the local economy, whilst allowing the current agricultural activities to continue.
I support this development.

I am a farmer from Rye Park and a strong supporter of wind farms for Australia's future for renewable energy. The Bango wind farm will join others across the Southern Tablelands region to secure the region as a very important part of NSW's clean energy industry.
As a farmer , we are directly affected by our unpredictable climate, and having alternate streams of income not related to rainfall is essential to make our business resilient.
The construction of the wind farm will allow graziers to continue to use their land alongside the new enterprise of harnessing the renewable resource of 'wind'.
The Bango windfarm project has an operator who is committed to the long term prosperity of the community by injecting funds towards community enhancement projects the order of $300,000 every year.
It also has landholders who are supporting the construction of turbines on their properties.
This project will employ locals from the community, improve the future for local schools and most importantly mitigate the effects of climate change by producing clean energy.
I can see no other potential developments that would allow this sort of economic benefit to the area, whilst allowing current agricultural operations to continue.
It's a "yes" from me!

I have read through the planning guidelines for wind farms in NSW. I am generally in favour of this proposal. The guidelines omit references to protection of the wind farm control and monitoring systems against cyber attack, software fault or malware. Since the output of the wind farm is presumably to be used to supply energy safely to the grid, perhaps for this project additional guidelines could be added to the tender.

This project should not go ahead due to noise and disruption to residents who have been there all their lives.

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