Beresfield Battery Energy Storage System

I Object to Beresfield Battery Energy Storage System as it is a total waste of public money - for toxic rubbish - that is part of a very contaminating & unhealthy Solar/Wind nightmare that is extremely damaging to Australia.

Australians deserve reliable, affordable Australian power instead.

2. AMENDED STORM WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN CONDITION re-CONTAMINATION – QUALIFIED TESTING/REPORTING, CONTAMINATION RESPONSE PROCEDURE, etc.

**Amended Condition C8.
Prior to Commencement of Any Works - Storm Water Management Plan.
On Site & Discharge From the Site.
Testing Points & Regular Water Samples, Suitably Qualified Person.
Response Procedures if CONTAMINATION is Found.
Availability of Results.

This Amended Condition in response to Professor Ian Plimer’s expert presentation to the Planning Panel regarding Solar Contamination must now be included for assessment of Solar/Wind Electricity Generating Works & BESS - so no construction can begin until the components are proven - prior to construction - to have no Modern Slavery links - under the advice of the NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner.
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**Simon Orme - IEEFA Report
https://ieefa.org/media/3234/download?attachment

**Energy Drowning in Subsidies
https://www.regulationeconomics.com/_files/ugd/b6987c_91012ad6a64b401e8e915a45c79911b4.

**CONNECTING SUBSIDISED & MANDATED, INTERMITTENT SOLAR & WIND POWER TO THE GRID IS THE WORST POLICY BLUNDER IN OUR HISTORY!!
DUNKELFLAUTES WILL
BE POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC!!
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/the-voice-of-energy-realism/

**Energy Vandalism and Impossible Dreams – Peter Smith - Quadrant Online 16th April 2023
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2023/04/energy-vandalism-and-impossible-dreams/

**“I’ve been clear I will have zero tolerance for businesses who refuse to provide adequate information about the impact their projects will have on nature,” Plibersek said.
“If companies aren’t willing to show how they will protect nature, then I’m willing to cancel their projects – and that’s exactly what I’ve done.” 5th May 2023
**Australia’s Self Inflicted Wind/Solar Calamity Demands Permanent Nuclear Power Solution!
https://stopthesethings.com/2023/04/30/australias-self-inflicted-wind-solar-calamity-demands-permanent-nuclear-power-solution/

**Wind Energy's Absurd | Facebook
“Cobalt Red -
How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives” - Siddharth Kara
https://www.facebook.com/100064419293322/posts/thanks-to-wea-friend-peter-for-pointing-us-in-the-direction-of-the-video-of-the-/601970201960284/

**The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics | The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/04/07/Rising-Chorus-Renewable-Energy-Skeptics/

**The Unbearable Lightness of Renewables – In Time – Watts Up With That?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/18/the-unbearable-lightness-of-renewables-in-time/

https://www.regulationeconomics.com/_files/ugd/b6987c_91012ad6a64b401e8e915a45c79911b4.pdf

President Trump Signs Executive Order Securing the United States Bulk-Power System | Department of Energy - 1st May 2020
https://www.energy.gov/articles/president-trump-signs-executive-order-securing-united-states-bulk-power-system

**China's Dream - Patricia Adams
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/12/Adams-Chinas-Energy-Dream.pdf

**Does China’s rapid rise in the Australian car market pose a security risk? | The Strategist
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/does-chinas-rapid-rise-in-the-australian-car-market-pose-a-security-risk/

**Ukraine war: The Russian ships accused of North Sea sabotage - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65309687

Solar/Wind Electricity Generating Works + BESS are an Environmental, Visual Amenity, Economic, Energy Security & National Security DISASTER! RenewaBULL Infrastructure is NOT in the best interests of Australia.
It in no way will reduce emissions given its energy intensive life-cycle, toxic waste creation & short lifespan.
It will lead to skyrocketing electricity prices, energy deprivation, a tanking economy, jobs for China, energy control by China & enable Beijing to TURN OUR LIGHTS OFF!

The FAKE GREEN WIND/SOLAR/BESS/TRANSMISSION NIGHTMARE GRIFT & PONZI SCHEME/SCAM IS BASED ON LIES & DECEPTION

UNETHICAL MODERN SLAVERY BASED SOLAR/WIND/BESS, CONTAMINATION & ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION, BISPHENOL A, ENERGY DEPRIVATION FROM ASTRONOMICALLY COSTLY - WEATHER DEPENDENT - DUNKELFLAUTE BASED SOLAR/WIND GRIFT & PONZI SCHEME/SCAM.

**The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pd

**Australia ratifies International Forced Labour Protocol | Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Women Marise Payne
https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/media-release/australia-ratifies-international-forced-labour-protocol

**Implementation of the Magnitsky Act is another avenue to ensure this shamefully unethical industry is not exploited in Australia.

**BLOOD BATTERIES - THE DARK SIDE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES - Gravitas Plus YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHvq-8np1o

**THE DISTURBING REALITY OF COBALT MINING FOR RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES.
“CLEAN COBALT IS A FICTION – THERE IS NO CLEAN COBALT - IT'S ALL MARKETING!”
People need to get educated so they are agitated about it enough to do something to change this.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining/harvard-professor-explains-heartwrenching-source-of-electric-vehicle-iphone-batteries/news-story/db881f47c76db89581409c092a740c4c
Joe Rogan exposes sad truth about cobalt used in electric vehicle, iPhone batteries | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site.
Cobalt is in all iPhones, tablets & crucially EV's - it maximises charge & stability.
Before anyone knew what was happening the Chinese Government & Chinese companies took control of almost all of the big mines in the Congo, with the local population displaced & the Congolese people under duress - digging in subhuman, gut wrenching conditions - using all raw human force - clanking the cobalt out of the ground!
Throughout the whole history of slavery, never has there been more suffering that generated more profit than was linked to more lives of people around the world than what is happening today in the Congo - mining cobalt in appalling, heart wrenching & dangerous conditions.

Wind Energy's Absurd | Facebook
“Cobalt Red -
How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives” - Siddharth Kara
https://www.facebook.com/100064419293322/posts/thanks-to-wea-friend-peter-for-pointing-us-in-the-direction-of-the-video-of-the-/601970201960284/

I Object on strong technical grounds in that it is not and never can provide a reliable fill-in supply to renewable energy unreliability. The capacity is nowhere near enough and never will be on current technical progress reports. Secondly an unreliable grid based on solar and wind can never guarantee recharge when needed. Finally the cost of addition grid generation to accommodate storage recharge AND normal grid load is outrageous . In a word no storage is viable as grid unreliability support, it is useful sometimes a peak lopping only. The other untenable unknown is what to do when the battery has to be replaced? No one has addressed the environmental problem.

1. How do you propose to provide reliable fill-in power generation when the average capacity factor of wind and solar systems CANNOT exceed approximately 30%?

2. If your answer is storage (any and all forms) how do you propose to re-charge spent storage facilities on a cloudy windless morning? (which could last for days or weeks)

3. What is the REAL cost of solar and wind systems - which MUST include ALL peripheral establishment and operational costs, that is :" manufacturing, transport, ALL subsidies, fill-in generation by whatever means, construction, land reclamation, disposal and treatment of toxic fail units, recycling of battery materials, grid batteries (that are useless for storage), Transmission Lines,… the list goes on BUT MUST include ALL costs for a realistic estimate.

Dear Project Promoter and Government Regulator,

                        CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY POLICY

Please provide a written response to the issues raised in this submission.

THE WEST VERSUS THE REST

The Paris Accord was signed by 196 countries in 2015 to aim for "net-zero" by 2050. However, only 11 have enacted legislation, and another 22 have pledges of varying robustness. Australia has the full suite all enshrined in law of a 43% reduction and 82% of renewable electricity by 2035, net zero by 2050, net-zero beyond 2050, and of all greenhouse gases. However, the reductions are non-binding on developing countries who currently produce 63% of carbon emissions.


THE WEST IS DELUDED

At the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation Summit in Samarkand, Sept 16, 17, 2022, with Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin, Racep Erdogan, and a few others, they stated that in relation to energy "we will not be co-erced, . . .will delay renewables, and aggressively increase fossil fuels." [Reported by Vijay Jayaraj from Newsmax who was present.]



That is concise, clear, and unequivocal. China, India, Russia, Turkiye, spoken for.


IT IS EXPENSIVE AND FUTILE

Australia produces 1.2% of global carbon dioxide emissions which is a small part of the world emissions and is very expensive to reduce. The CEO of Australian Super, Paul Schroder, estimates the cost for Australia to achieve Net Zero at up to A$10Tn dollars. Australian annual GDP is currently a A$2.3Tn. McKinsey estimates it will cost the U.S. US$9.2Tn per annum.

And it is futile. Australia is planning to phase out its remaining 22 coal fired power stations whilst worldwide over 535 are proposed or commissioned; China is building 2 new coal fired power stations per week; and in China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Turkey, etc. [Michael Shellenberger in about Sept 2022].

Willis Eschenbach, 2/6/23, with interactive map, plots the 1,008 coal fired power plants announced, in planning, permitted, or under contract.

THE EXPERIENCE OF EARLY ADOPTERS IS STARK

Guyana and Sri Lanka under World Bank influence tried to remove ammonium fertilisers, which produce great crops and also carbon dioxide, and almost ruined their economies. In June 2022 40,000 Dutch farmers drove their tractors onto expressways in protest at the proposed reduction in nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer and number of animals. The jurisdictions of South Australia, Victoria, Great Britain, California, Texas and Germany tried to replace coal fired power with renewables and were only saved by the supply of electricity from their neighbours. GB and Germany are reintroducing coal power and Germany is now building dozens of gas fired plants.

There is a great maxim that "you should not be first to adopt new technology, but not the last."

NET ZERO IS A SUICIDE PACT.(Dr Patrick Moore)

Fossil fuels provide 6,000 products, a lot of fertilizer and 97% of transport energy. Unless we are to return to an existence like the Shakers, net zero is unlikely to be achieved.

Electricity represents only 21% of world energy.

RENEWABLES ARE NEEDY AND HUNGRY

Renewables consume at least ten times the quantity of copper, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, concrete, steel and manpower than required for equivalent generation from coal. [Mark Mills]. The carbon dioxide emissions of solar panel production is so large that at the 35 degrees of latitude from the equator, the expended carbon dioxide exceeds the saving for the remainder of their life.[Pollock] This is at about Canberra, Swan Hill, Adelaide.

Renewable energy sources are low density and low EROEI, and low on all sustainability scores.

IF RENEWABLES ARE SO CHEAP, WHY IS MY ELECTRICITY BILL GOING UP?



The cost of wind and solar may be cheap in isolation when the wind blows or the sun shines. But in a grid, wind and solar produce a varying magnitude of DC power that needs firming from inverters, complex switching, or batteries. And being at the extremities of energy networks, they require vastly greater new transmission networks, which in the NEM the 10,000Kms which was to have cost $13BLN has now blown out by 40%. [On 13/5/23 Bowen mentioned $20BLN, being +55%].

WHAT IS THE REAL COST OF RENEWABLES

Wind and solar add another layer of generation to a grid. When there is no sun and no wind they need 100% back up power rapidly deployed. Initially in Australia this has been provided by existing coal fired power and the previous inbuilt 20% surplus capacity. As coal fired power stations are retired, proponents are promoting the idea of storage. The reality is that back up needs to be provided by fast response generators, which are traditionally gas. The Combined Cycle Gas Turbines, CCGT, generation is at least twice the cost of coal. Being new compared with retiring old equipment, also adds a layer of cost. Jeff Dimery, CEO of Alina Energy estimates the capital cost to replace their existing $1BLN of coal power will require $8BLN with gas.

So, the all-inclusive cost of new renewable electricity and transmission to a grid is between 3 and 9 times the cost of coal.
In fact, it's already common in other parts of the world to see efficient combined-cycle gas turbines replaced by open-cycle ones because they can be throttled up and down more easily to back up the rapidly changing output of wind and solar farms. But open-cycle gas turbines burn about twice as much gas as combined cycle gas turbines. It is ironic to be switching to high-emissions machinery as part of an effort to reduce emissions. [Bryan Leyland]
ANOTHER DILEMMA FOR ENVIRONMENTALISTS

Green supporters had been very much against gas which at its best produces only half the emissions of coal. However, the grid instability has compelled the NEM to accept gas generators. Pumped hydro and batteries are expensive and provide very little to the grid. Maybel nuclear will be acceptable.

THE SAFEGUARD MECHANISM IN AUSTRALIA



The large emitters in Australia (in excess of 100,000 tons per annum of carbon dioxide) number some 215 organisations and businesses, accounting for about half of Australia's emissions. They are required to reduce emissions, or buy offsets, from 1 July 2023, at about 5% p.a. on a reducing balance to achieve a 30% reduction by 2030 and 100% by 2050.

This will result in large cost increases, loss of international competitiveness and a massive transfer of production offshore.


THE IDEAL SOLUTION

If one really did believe that decarbonisation of an economy was necessary, (and I do not wish to concede that premise), you would install nuclear in the location where you phased out coal and use the available water and transmission.

AN IDEAL RENEWABLE GRID

In Australia, the production of electricity from solar farms averages 19% of their rated capacity, and wind 29%, which I call the Pollock limit. That will probably decline slightly as the best sites went first. Beyond that, overbuilding and spillage or curtailment of electricity occurs. [Pollock]. Yes, some overcapacity could be used for storage or maintaining the traditional 20% surplus for unexpected occurrences, but these are small amounts.

[You can skip the difficulty in this paragraph.] However, there is a complexity here, that about 11% of the 29% wind generation is synchronous with solar. As solar has a lower cost and is less energy dense and has a lower EROEI it will jeopardise or cannibalise the 11% of synchronous wind. So effectively generation into the grid is only 18% from wind and 19% from solar meaning the economic build of renewables is ONLY 37%.[Trembath and Jenkins.][ ]

Never mind the complexity; 37% is the optimum input of renewables into the Australian network NEM. [King]

THE EXISTING NEM CAPACITY

In the NEM, these ideal capacities for solar of 19% and wind 18% are far exceeded. The NEM is said to be a "22GW enterprise", with a minimum demand of 18GW and a maximum of 28GW. Solar has an existing and commissioned capacity of 12GW, 67% of the likely minimum demand, and a further 48GW proposed, being another 270%. Wind has an existing and commissioned 12GW, 43% of the likely maximum demand, and a further 19GW proposed, another 68%. Rooftop solar capacity at 20GW (Aust) is huge, the largest penetration in the world, and in the NEM could replace about 3GW. That 3GW will reduce demand and make the above percentages even higher.

HOW MANY RENEWABLES DO YOU NEED.

It is often naively stated that you just keep adding more renewables until the grid is fully supplied. There are several things wrong with this assumption.

Firstly, if the renewables were only producing a meagre 8.3%, say, of their nameplate capacity, then it is supposed you simply construct 12 times as many. But that is a massive amount of extra capital and a huge spillage of electricity at times when they produce more.

Secondly, the renewables produce in an environmental sawtooth fashion. Ponton analysed the UK over 2022 where wind supplied 25% of demand, (they have no effective solar). He then notionally kept doubling up possible wind turbines. At 4 times current quantity, you would naively expect to be supplying 100% of the grid. However, only 2.5% extra supply came from the fourth 25% (22.5% was curtailed), because wind blows at varying rates producing varying amounts of electricity, and the lows in the sawtooth do not get filled up. (A small 15% of demand had to be reserved for supply by idling standby gas generators). At 4 times capacity wind could only supply 52% of demand, and regardless of however many times you doubled up, the wind could only provide a maximum 60%. [Ponton]

Thirdly, there are renewable droughts, or dunkelflautes. At times there is no wind and no sun. Studies at various locations around the world show that in a full year the combined addition of all wind droughts and low sun will be equivalent to a full 30 days, (varying at location from 15 to 46 days).

For these periods you need backup. Fast response gas has been mentioned and hy

I absolutely object to Beresfield Battery Energy Storage System in Newcastle City Shire as this 170 MW / 340 MWh Battery Energy Storage facility with associated infrastructure - SSD-31940756 - is a FILTHY, TOXIC CONTAMINATING DISASTER - with NO BENEFITS WHATSOEVER TO THE PEOPLE OF NEWCASTLE/AUSTRALIA.

This Beresfield BESS plan defies the NSW Modern Slavery Act 2021 & will not meet the NEW MODERN SLAVERY CONDITION - requiring NO Components - including COBALT - being reliant on Slave Labour supply chains.
Nor does this EIS address the AMENDED STORM WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN - in order to consider the obvious serious/irreversible toxic contamination risk it presents.

The extremely toxic carcinogenic & teratogenic Fire/Smoke hazard risk is an extreme PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY THREAT - which my family & I do not consent to being subjected to.
A likely Fire incident would also irreversibly contaminate the environment - our life sustaining land & water sources.

This plan is part of the irresponsible, totally illogical, extremely cruel & unjust ruination of Australia’s precious Environment & our essential Electricity Grid.
It is a totally incapable, astronomically expensive, big pile of toxic junk that is pretending to store weather dependent, intermittent Solar/Wind energy for a flawed Energy Transition/Transmission Nightmare that will NEVER work!
Beresfield BESS will be totally unreliable & useless in Wind Droughts & cloudy weather - as is an idiotic feature of the RenewaBULL scandal - nothing but a FAKE GREEN GRIFT & PONZI SCHEME/SCAM - outrageously, unconscionably & unjustly inflicting unnecessary energy poverty, austerity & hardship on the people of NSW/Australia!

The failure of this plan is clearly outlined by an honest, extremely experienced Electronic/Telecommunications Engineer - who has no vested interests in Power Generation:-

1. How do you propose to provide reliable fill-in power generation when the average capacity factor of wind and solar systems CANNOT exceed approximately 30%?

2. If your answer is storage (any and all forms) how do you propose to re-charge spent storage facilities on a cloudy windless morning? (which could last for days or weeks)

3. What is the REAL cost of solar and wind systems - which MUST include ALL peripheral establishment and operational costs, that is :" manufacturing, transport, ALL subsidies, fill-in generation by whatever means, construction, land reclamation, disposal and treatment of toxic fail units, recycling of battery materials, grid batteries (that are useless for storage), Transmission Lines,… the list goes on BUT MUST include ALL costs for a realistic estimate.”

I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY FAMILY OR MYSELF BEING DETRIMENTALLY HARMED IN ANY WAY BY THESE GHASTLY PLANS OR ANY OTHER CONNECTED LARGE-SCALE SOLAR/WIND ELECTRICITY GENERATING WORKS, BESS & ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE IN NSW/AUSTRALIA - including but not limited to:-
**Public Health & Safety Risks - Personal Discomfort & Health Impacts from Electrical Force/ EMR & Deprivation or Contamination of Life Sustaining Food Resource Land, Food Supplies & Water Supplies.
**Unplanned for, Not Even Researched & Not Appropriately Assessed, Toxic Carcinogenic & Teratogenic Fire/Smoke Hazard Risks.
**Energy Deprivation - Lack of Reliable, Affordable Electricity - Resulting from Inferior, Unreliable Solar/Wind Generation causing Austerity, Suffering, ill Health & Loss of Basic Services.
**Consequential Skyrocketing Electricity Prices - Causing Unnecessary Cruelty & Hardship, Cost of Living Crisis & Potential Death from Hyperthermia.
**Unjust Mistreatment of Landholders & Rural Communities Forced to Endure Such Detrimental Plans - Causing Extreme Distress, Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Family/Social Fracturing & Loss.
**Deprivation of Rural Outlook & Quality of Life - With Unhealthy, Distressing Noise, Infrasound & Visual Pollution.
**Emotional Distress, Anxiety & Fear Caused by Government Inflicted Skyrocketing Energy/Cost of Living Crisis.
**Detrimental Consequences of increased SF6 emissions.
**Increased Economic Hardship due to Failure of Councils to do their Due Diligence, to Address Compliance, to be Transparent & to be Honest, to Address the Facts & Community Concerns, ie. Additional Council charges for Flawed Assessments & Wrong Approvals - Leading to Unplanned for Clean up & Remediation Costs for Abandoned, Derelict, Contaminating Solar/Wind EG Works & BESS.
**Any Detrimental Cost Implications for Ratepayers from the Council's & any NSW/Federal Government Body’s Persistence in Ignoring Their Duties Regarding the Unethical Hosting, Procurement & Power Purchase Agreements With Energy Generation Reliant on Unethical Slave Labour Supply Chains.
**Loss of Productivity & Income Due to Contamination, Increased Fire Risk & Heat Island Impacts from Solar/Wind EG Works & BESS.
**Any Cyber Security Breaches or National Security Threats & Harm Caused.
**Any Costs Incurred for Ratepayers & Taxpayers by Dealing With the Obvious, Economic Suicide - the Financial Consequences for the Future of Making Seriously Retrograde Decisions by Hosting & Approving Such Harmful Solar/Wind EG Works, BESS & Associated Unnecessary
Transmission Infrastructure.

CONNECTING SUBSIDISED & MANDATED, INTERMITTENT SOLAR & WIND POWER TO THE GRID IS THE WORST POLICY BLUNDER IN OUR HISTORY!!
DUNKELFLAUTES WILL
BE POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC!!
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/the-voice-of-energy-realism/
Solar/Wind utilities cannot be maximised simutaneously & should never be interfering with our once reliable & efficient electricity grid.
Any Power Generation Source That Can’t Deliver Electricity On Demand is Pointless!
Hideous ecosystem-wrecking industrial Solar/Wind EG Works, BESS, associated infrastructure & invasive, unnecessary multiplication of Transmission Lines for such a costly, contaminating & wasteful form of electricity generation is illogical lunacy!

Just like Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s claims that increased renewables mean “CHEAPER, CLEANER ENERGY, LOWER POWER BILLS & LOWER POLLUTION” (SMH 10th April 2023,) these empty promises are totally false!

The demand for ‘green’ power hurts the environment - with an appallingly huge environmental footprint, only rendered worse by their ineffectiveness at meeting basic power needs.
Inferior, intermittent, Fake Green renewaBULL energy disturbs our independent way of life, denies us modern conveniences, affects our security, economic prosperity, our health & wellbeing & destroys Intergenerational equity for future generations.

Solar/Wind Electricity Generating Works, BESS Plans & Irresponsible Approvals Have Neglected to Accurately Address All of the Following:-
**Food Security + Australian Energy Security = National Security
**Australian Independent Energy = Coal, Gas & a clean, safe, Nuclear SMR Power future.
**Which companies involved & all of their Solar/Wind/BESS connections are subject to the CCP’s National Intelligence Law?
**Public Health & Safety Risks - Electric Force & Electromagnetic Radiation, Soil/Food/Water Contamination, Energy Deprivation.
**Proper Research Needed - No Scientific Rigour.
** Engineering Facts Have Been Ignored.
**Connecting Subsidised, Mandated Weather Dependent - Intermittent Solar/Wind to the Grid is the Worst Policy Failure in History.
**Fake Green - Not Clean & Green or Sustainable at all - as the Full Lifecycle of Solar/Wind/BESS has to be accounted for.
At least 1,000% more Mining + intensive energy & toxic pollution during processing.
**Power Sources Needed in major City areas instead - avoiding long distance transmission loss, ruination of rural Australia & harming Agricultural productivity.
**Unconscionable scale of Industrialised Solar/Wind land mass required.
Michael Shellenberger says it's approx 300-800 times more land required for Solar/Wind than for far superior conventional power generation.
**Massive Toxic Waste Burden being intentionally created for future generations that will NEVER be economically viable to recycle - if ever even possible.
**Energy Security risks from inferior, unreliable, weather dependent, Dunkelflaute based Solar/Wind which will NEVER be base-load power available on demand.
**Economic Suicide - Skyrocketing Energy Prices = Cost of Living Crisis. The more Mandated, Subsidised Solar & Wind in the system = the Higher the Prices.
**National Security Risks - we need to rely on our own AUSTRALIAN Energy Sources rather than our Most Hostlie Enemy - the CCP.
**Fake Green Wokeness = Weakness
**Unethical Slave Labour Supply Chain Reliance - Solar’s cruelly tortured Xinjiang Uyghurs & Cobalt for Wind Turbines + Batteries reliant on shocking treatment of the Congolese - with Child Labour - children as young as 6 years old forced to mine toxic cobalt in the Congo with their bare hands!
**No Social Licence - Failed Consultation process by GOVERNMENTS, AEMO, TRANSGRID & DEVELOPERS.
**Immediate Moratorium & Federal Independent Inquiry is Essential
* TWO NEW PRECEDENTS HAVE BEEN SET by Oxley Bridge Rd Uranquinty NSW Solar Determination 24th Nov 2022:-
https://apps.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/DocMgmt/v1/PublicDocuments/DATA-WORKATTACH-FILE%20PEC-DPE-EP-WORK%20PPSSTH-149!20221124T045856.774%20GMT
(*Including Audio of Professor Ian Plimer’s Presentation on Solar Contamination.)

1. NEW MODERN SLAVERY CONDITION- requiring proof prior to construction that NO Slave Labour supply chain components be used in construction.
**New Condition Inserted C4A - Dealing With Modern Slavery.
Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018

*NSW Local Council Act 1993
428 Annual Report
438 ZE Duty to Ensure Goods & Services Are Not Procured From Modern Slavery.

This applies to all NSW Government Bodies - including Council Hosts, to those Procuring & those who have a Power Purchase Agreement with Solar/Wind Energy generation + BESS whose construction has used Modern Slavery Supply Chain Sourced Components.

I ask to EPBC to ensure:
- that there are adequate dedicated on-site fire fighting equipment suitable for managing BESS fires.
-that there are adequate bonds or AAA guarantees for end of service removal and site remediation
_that the owner, as recipient of Government mandates and assistance, provide full annual accounts publicly, and that any indirect assistance be quantified by an actuary.

I object to this proposed 170MW/340MWh BESS for the following reasons:

1. Industrial scale lithium-ion batteries contain highly toxic chemicals, which can pollute the atmosphere with dangerous fumes if the BESS catches fire. The BESS would pose a long-term risk to the local residents.

2. Lithium-ion batteries are not easily fully recyclable and is likely to be dumped in huge quantities as the many BESS installations come to their about 10 years lives. The toxic batteries could contaminate the ground and water supplies.

3. While the BESS footprint is stated as small it still will remove wild-life habitat of many creatures, threatened or not. Any patches of vegetation supporting an eco-system that are removed will impact and possibly eliminate that eco-system for many decades.

4. Forty-four endangered species identified in the vicinity of the BESS is an exceptional risk to them. Dismissing 43 of them as not present on the site is incredulous. Wild-life come and go depending on the seasons and other factors such as drought. Unless a detailed onsite ongoing study over at least two or three years it is not possible to assess what animals visit and depend on the habitat that will be removed.

My objections to this proposed BESS (170MW, 340MW hour) are that:

• It makes little sense to me that the BESS will rely on intermittent wind and solar electricity to maintain sufficient charge to then be able to provide power to homes at other times. I know from my own solar system that their are times when the output over a whole cloudy day is less than 5% of its maximum possible output. How can a BESS possibly get recharged when this happens? Surely we will just suffer even more blackouts and brownouts then we do already.

• Polluting our local and overseas environments from mining and processing materials, manufacturing the batteries and then shipping huge quantities of batteries and equipment for a BESS that would make such a small very part-time contribution to our electricity system. Surely the environmental damage done and increased cost of electricity outweighs this tiny benefit?

The proposed BESS should not be approved.

Please refer to attached letter.

Please refer to the attached submission.

Beresfield BESS, Newcastle,
Application Number SSD-31940756
Dear DPIE,
I strongly object to the Beresfield BESS development. These developments have the potential to pollute the environment with their toxic batteries. They do catch on fire and the fumes are very toxic to all forms of life. They also have a short life so will need to be replaced, where to they go then? Batteries cannot replace base load coal or gas power stations which we have now. These batteries are made with the help of child labour in Africa who are dying prematurely because of the horrific condition they work in extracting cobalt and lithium. The environment ond human slavery is not taken into account with this blind rush into "renewable energy. The only thing free is the wind and sun, none of the rest of the production, logistics through to decommissioning is. It is going to bankrupt Australia and make us reliable on a foreign country to hold us to ransom when they start to malfunction. We have plenty of our own fuels here to make clean cheap power for the Australian people and industry. As of this week Australia has the dearest power costs in the world, WHY? Because we are becoming reliant on weather dependent solar and wind. Up here the local solar plant will be charging their batteries from the local coal fire power station at night(when it is cheap) and selling it back during the day (at a higher price). That is how they help pay for the very expensive batteries. Is that renewable energy? Who is looking after our National Security!!!

Regards A Food Producer of Central Queensland

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I object to the Beresfield Battery Energy Storage System.

The proposed Lithium-Ion battery system uses lead, lithium and cobalt, all of which are hazardous materials. This is of much concern to residents and the community as ordinary fire suppression measures cannot extinguish a lithium chemical reaction fire. A fire that occurred in Geelong, Victoria in July 2021 (a 350MW/450MWh BESS) during testing, resulted in a 13 tonne battery pack catching fire - burning for three days and resulting in the evacuation of residents because of the toxic fumes generated.

I strongly object to this project. Batteries create more environmental problems than they solve, due to their mining and manufacture and limited lifespan. Wind and solar generators consume more raw materials and energy to manufacture yet produce less power than equivalent thermal power plants. They are simply grossly less efficient. Adding batteries to try and fill the gaps in generation only compounds this inefficiency and leads to the consumption of more energy and material. The planet suffers a net loss environmentally, which is counter to the purported reason for doing all this.

More research needs to be done into the disposal of the batteries at the end of there life cycle.

I am protesting against the SSD31940756 because I believe it will encourage the construction of even more Solar Industrial complexes on the only 4% of arable land available to Australian farmers. There are many other reasons why I do not support this development including the need to introduce Nuclear Power into our energy mix to provide a clean reliable power source.

I object to this project due to its location