Liverpool Range Wind Farm

See attached.

Response as requested.

Please find attached Council's submission prepared by our Director of Technical Services - Mr Kevin Tighe, in relation to the Response to Submissions for the Liverpool Range Windfarm proposal.

Please find attached RFS comments for SSD6696 - Liverpool Range Wind Farm.

Please find attached CASA's response.

Please see attached Roads and Maritime Services submission to Liverpool Range Windfarm.

Please see attached Roads and Maritime Services submission to Liverpool Range Windfarm.

Please see attached submission in relation to the 'Response to Submissions Report' for Liverpool Range Wind Farm.

Advice attached.

There are other more modern ways of generating electricity from wind. Using the present propeller based turbines is like planning for horse and buggy transport. Due diligence requires planning authorities to examine modern technologies some of which, with web links, are listed here;-

21st century systems not using old-fashioned turbines


The Sheerwind INVOLOX focuses wind in a narrowing tube which increases the wind speed to increase energy production from an enclosed turbine by between 85 and 620% with an average improvement of 314% more energy. Because the turbine is enclosed it is noiseless and there is no blade flicker.
Check out http://www.sheerwind.com


Energy Towers generate electricity and desalinate sea water at the same time, e.g. the Solar Wind Energy Downdraft Tower.
at http://www.solarwindenergytower.com


Vertical Axis turbines. There are many varieties including ones suitable for tall buildings e.g. IMPLUX
http://www.katru.com.au/


Bladeless turbines claim to be 70% more efficient than the old-fashioned ones e.g. the Saphonian Zero-blade Wind Converter
at http://www.Saphonenergy.com


A more artistic approach can be seen at Wind Stalk.
http://www.atelierdna.com/masdarwindstalk
This and other artistic ways of generating electricity can also be accessed from
http://www.landartgenerator.org/


A smaller system suitable for urban areas is the SET at http://www.secretenergyturbine.com/

This project will be a major boost for the Coolah and it's community. With large investment comes jobs which is great for schools and sporting clubs. The farmers win as well, with employment and drought proofing our land.
We get to stay were we are and still farm the land which is good for every one.

Thanks

Australia must keep pace with rest of the world in all areas of our society. We must have a vision for the future that embraces new technology for the benefit of our people and our environment.
The Liverpool Range Wind Farm will be a major contributor to many of these goals. It will create numerous jobs in construction and ongoing employment to service and maintain the infrastructure. It will be a major contributor to Australia's renewable energy target. It will contribute sizable revenue to the local and the broader community through payments to landholders that agree to have towers on their properties. It will give those landholders assured income for the security of their families well into the future.

IT will be a big boost for the whole of the community

Great project for the town and surrounding areas

i support this project and it will be great for the area

I object to this proposed development as it will be a waste of taxpayer/retail electricity consumer subsidisation which could be better spent on health and education.
The Preliminary Environmental Assessment 18 Conclusion states "It would inject funds of up to $1,272 million into the Australian economy".. Nowhere does it say how many billions of dollars the Australian economy diverts from health and education funding, to fund the import of the wind farm infrastructure.
The Environmental Assessment on exhibition has a Strategic Justification 1.3 based on projected increased need for electricity - when all we read is exactly the opposite.
And if there were a need, what point is there in having a still wind turbine in a high demand peak period. High cost gas generators will also required to complement the wind power (if ever a coal fired base load generator does close down - unlikely).
And in addition to the now usual rebuttals of health, visual and property value impacts, the EA effectively dismisses the bush fire risk resulting from no aerial fire fighting support by trying to sell the proposition that the NSW Fire Brigade will benefit from the access tracks running along ridges while they don hazmat gear and while the local RFS will keep well away. To say that the wind farm structures are no more a fire risk than any similar sized infrastructure is treating the reader as the ultimate fool. The local RFS together with appropriate aerial support perform miracles but they are not suicidal.
The EA is full of "up to" and consultation. "Up to" 78 local permanent jobs. Ask for the job descriptions of each and quantify the local pay packets.
Community Consultation Committees sound good but not after it is realised the developer can appoint and unappoint community members.
Lastly, the Dept of Planning & Environment does not have the resources to recognise non-compliance let alone enforce it.
Approval is left to the Planning Assessment Commission which delegates the process to a committee which comprise a chairperson plus a casual panel member. The committee receives the Dept's recommendation.
I object to it.

My huysband & I are strongly against the Windfarm for the Coolah area. As we live in town and are less than 10km from the closest one and we do not want to see or hear thes things, as we have a pretty valley and don't want an eyesore happening around our town. I understand that if this phase goes through, phase 2 & 3 will totally surround our town. This will mean we will not be able to get away from the noise and eyesore. It is not going to bebefit our local community in anyway and will not create any employment. If anything it will make people want to leave and our land will be worthless.

This is the best way to kill a small country town.

The proposal of the concrete batching plant on Turee Vale Rd is of great concern to me due to the traffic implications of so many movements per day. Currently, the road is totally inadequate being very narrow and very thin bitumen. It is an unfenced road with stock grids. Our house is quite close to the road and our nearest neighbour's house is even closer to the road so that there will be noise implications for everyone along the road.

To Director- General,

We would like to make a formal objection to the proposed development of wind turbines in the Coolah-Cassilis area NSW. Being the Liverpool Range Wind Farm ( Epron application number 10-0225.)
As landholders surrounded by this development, we feel we would be severely disadvantaged both financially and health wise.
After extensive research of this type of development, we are convinced that land values are significantly reduced if saleable at all. Apart from the obvious outlook, instead of a peaceful rural landscape, the noise factor as proven by many studies and health issues are our main concern.
We find it hard to comprehend that if we were to submit a plan for any type of rural structure and our neighbours found it obstructive to their view, we would fail to have it passed. But we would be surrounded by turbines in excess of 140 metres tall.
We purchased our rural holding eleven years ago of course to make a living, but also for the beautiful rural outlook and lifestyle which the surrounding area offered, and certainly paid the price for that privelage. We cannot understand how our surrounding neighbours can change not only our lifestyle but our whole property value. Unlike other developments that intrude on lifestyle, whethe it be mining or anything else, the development would buy out any affected owners for market value.
Not so with this development, unfortunately we now have to sit in the middle of a development which is totally unacceptable to anyone not included in this project and have our whole lifestyle changed forever.
In the long term are wind turbines the answer to our power supply when other countries have admitted failure?
Thank you
Helen and Dennis Lodge

There will be lots more positives than negitives