MOD 1 - Panel Height Increase

I believe that renewable energy is a must and really believe that this project is a wonderful initiative.

Solar is the way to go

The height makes little difference to the benefits of solar farms.

As a local resident who travels past this location on a frequent basis, I remain fully supportive of it's progression.
Solar installation ensures this land will remain productive all year round, yielding a critical product (energy) from a free resource even through our inevitable droughts.
The amendments seem to have no real negative impact from an optics point of view and the the overall economical benefits remain a huge win for the community.
Thank you,

I fully support the Walla Walla Project. It's good green energy that we should embrace and create moving forward into the future. It will also benefit the local community creating and sustaining employment.

We need more sola stations to support less pollution , save natural gas for home heating and so on ,

I fully support the Walla Walla Solar Farm Project. I believe we should be embracing every opportunity available to alleviate any further warming. In my own home I am using solar power as well as solar hot water. As a nation it is the only way forward: sustainable, cost effective and capable of generating new employment opportunities.

I fully support the project and feel that will make new jobs and increase the infrastructure of our region.

I support the project

I support the project

Just build it already

I support the modification to this project and believe that it is reasonable and necessary.

I support the amendments/changes proposed in the modification application

Australia is a big country with large stretches of unused land. To reduce the classification of usable agricultural land to industrial grade is totally misguided and destructive to the population for the convenience of Multinational Companies to connect to the existing electricity infrastructure, instead of building for the future of the agricultural industry in Australia is being forfeited. .



Why do we, as a nation, and you as the Planning Department, allow bullying Multinational companies and foreign owned Conglomerates to dictate our future? We the Australian People need to determine our future in renewable energy, in food production, and mining, not be bullied by foreign owned companies with their eye only on the money they can make from this country. I'm so angered by the complete lack of common sense being used here. “AARRRR.!!!!”



Yes we need to transition to renewable energy, but at what cost? The livelihoods of hundreds, maybe thousands of Australians in the agricultural sector are now in jeopardy. Due to bullying, lies and underhanded tactics by scouts/prospectors for these huge companies. They divide the community for up to 2 years before they begin consultation with the community. They engage in ‘one on one’ kitchen meetings that are “private”.

The NSW Government has said consultation is the key getting communities on board, well then why do you not see and allow companies to ‘break and enter’, without community consultation. The whole process becomes a box ticking exercise for the multinational, with no real emphasis on following all of the rules. We, the public do get our opportunity to complain in this process. Only when invited, only in the right way; only at the right time, and WE have to prove OUR case, without science because we are told, by the Department of Planning staffers, "We don't expect you (the general public) to have any scientific knowledge, and we get experts to examine the data." So patronising to us, the general public. We are intelligent, informed and aware of some research that needs to be completed and needs to be completed independently. We are capable of examining the reports and fully recognise the flaws in company selected reporting entities. We recognise the need for the independence, without pecuniary interest, among the expertise engaged in the reporting processes.



In the haste to get renewables up and running, the solar project you propose, to which I object, may replicate dangers implicit in ‘The Pink Bat Scheme’. Is this Planning Department going to wait until unchecked mismanagement of “proper consultation” causes farmers to committing suicide as a result of having the livelihoods taken from them? 4th generation farms sold out from underneath them? Due to unchecked, under investigated pollution? in the interests of money making foreign industry?



To make matters worse, if that were possible, the electricity being generated, literally in our backyards, is not even utilized in the country area of its source. It is all destined for the urban areas - the cities. We don't even get reduced prices in the bush. So where is the incentive? Due to the complete lack of consultation we feel we have been misrepresented and denied the appropriate opportunity to have our say regarding the clean sweep of regional Australia to supply city dwellers with electricity. ”Oh, that's right the Host landholder is paid so much, they move to another part of Australia - outside the REZ. Leaving a ‘rural slum’ to develop, with noxious weeds, feral animals and the burden of responsibility put on the neighbouring landholders until it's too much for them; they sell, at a reduced price just to get away from it all and who will be left to produce the food?” Importing food is not an option that we should be considering at this or any other time.



How can intelligent people appointed to Government departments be SO short sighted about the importance of food production and human mental health in evaluating projects such as Walla Walla Solar?



Belinda Parkinson

I support the application

I support the ammendments to the Walla Walla Solar Farm.

I support the proposed amendments to the Walla Walla Solar Farm.

I support the proposed changes to the solar farm in Walla.

The impact of these proposed changes to the Walla Walla Solar project will further add more anxiety and dire disappointment for the landowners impacted. “Barely discernible increase in visibility “ as quoted is not a true reflection on surrounding farmlands. The height of the panels and the area between the panels a much larger distance than what was consented to. The time frame for submissions too limited and further frustration when the closing date and time was falsely announced by local media.

I fully support this project.