Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro Energy Storage.

Please find attached Submission

I Object to this seriously environmentally destructive, seriously stupid Ovens Mountain
Pumped Hydro Plan as it would be a very time consuming construction process, isn’t big enough to be useful, would be cost prohibitive & its immediate recharge would be unreliably weather dependent.
As part of the Unjust, Torturous & Sabotaging Fake Green RenewaBULL Energy Poverty Grift & Ponzi Scheme/Scam - this dodgy plan needs to be dumped as we need AUSTRALIAN COAL, GAS & A CLEAN, SAFE NUCLEAR ENERGY FUTURE.

It is abundantly clear that an IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM & INDEPENDENT INQUIRY is absolutely essential to honestly clarify the PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY RISKS & MORAL HAZARD, to include an accurate, INDEPENDENT FULL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS for what is Obscene RenewaBULL & Transmission Costs, Loss of Industry/Manufacturing & NO Productivity, a COMPLETE AUDIT of CRITICAL ENERGY (& OTHER) INFRASTRUCTURE - WHO REALLY ARE ALL THE VESTED INTERESTS?
HOW ARE THE CONSULTANCY COMPANIES, THE PREDATORY WIND/SOLAR INDUSTRY, POLICY MAKERS & POLITICIANS ALL CONNECTED & BENEFITING FROM THIS PUBLIC RIP-OFF?
WHO IS SUBJECT TO THE CCP’S NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE LAW, etc.
A COMPREHENSIVE, INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THE ‘RENEWABLE’ ENERGY TRANSITION/TRANSMISSION NIGHTMARE IS ESSENTIAL WITH ANY PLANS SUBJECT TO ETHICAL PROCESSES & APPROVALS WITH INTEGRITY, USING REPUTABLE, INDEPENDENT, PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH INFORMING EXPERT ENGINEERING FACTS & RIGOROUS SCIENTIFIC DETERMINATIONS THAT ENSURE THE OBSERVABLE PRACTICAL REALITY OF PRIORITISING PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY, ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & INTERGENERATIONAL BENEFIT TO THE PEOPLE OF NSW/AUSTRALIA.

Pumped Hydro, Wind/Solar Electricity Generating Works, BESS & Multiplication of Transmission Line Infrastructure 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, NETWORKS & DEVELOPERS.
**Immediate Moratorium & Federal Independent Inquiry is Essential.

I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY FAMILY OR MYSELF BEING DETRIMENTALLY HARMED IN ANY WAY BY OVENS MOUNTAIN PUMPED HYDRO
& ANY ASSOCIATED LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRIALISED SOLAR/WIND ELECTRICITY GENERATING WORKS, BESS & UNNECESSARY MULTIPLICATION OF
TRANSMISSION LINE/INTERCONNECTOR
INFRASTRUCTURE IN NSW/AUSTRALIA - including but not limited to:-
**Public Health & Safety Risks - Personal Discomfort & Health Impacts from Electrical Force/ EMR & Deprivation.
**Contamination of Life Sustaining Food Resource Land, Food Supplies & Water Sources.
**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.
**Damaging 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, Pumped Hydro, Industrialised Solar/Wind Electricity Generating Works, BESS & Associated Unnecessary
Transmission Infrastructure - none of which is FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

I have provided feedback on certain sections of the report, that impacts our Land Council - Developing this Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro Energy Storage will have great impact of community and persons living down the Macleay River.

The document attached to this submission have been removed from publication due to potentially defamatory content, however the Department, in assessing and making any recommendations in relation to this development application, will take into consideration such of the documents attached to the submission that is of relevance.

Please refer to the attachment.

I object to this project as its success or otherwise depends on an adequate supply of electricity generated from the unreliable sources of wind and solar electricity generation. My frequent blackouts, brownouts and ever higher electricity bills prove to me that more wind and solar delivers neither reliable nor cheaper electricity. The project will certainly add costs to my bills and may do little to improve reliability of supply.

My objection to the project is that yet more environmental destruction will result from it. I am tired of excuses that the environmental damage will be mitigated and minimal. The cumulative impacts of all these ever-increasing wind, solar, transmission and storage projects are transforming our beautiful countryside into undesirable wastelands.

Please find attached

The document attached to this submission have been removed from publication due to potentially defamatory content, however the Department, in assessing and making any recommendations in relation to this development application, will take into consideration such of the documents attached to the submission that is of relevance.

Dear Minister,

Re: Submission of Objection by Gavin Bamforth to the Proposed Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage Proposal: Application Number SSI-12422997, EPBC ID Number 2020/8850, Assessment Type: Critical State Significant Infrastructure. Exhibited as: (EXH-62250958)


As a long-term member of the Save our Macleay River Inc. community group I would like to express my concern about the above proposal for the reasons given by the submission of Save our Macleay River Inc.

I share their concerns that the above proposal will not be able to ensure high water quality for the Macleay Catchment and in particular for the communities living downstream of the project which rely on this water.

Therefore, I hereby wish to give my full endorsement to the submission of Save our Macleay River Inc.

I thank you and appreciate your making available and exhibiting the DA, EIS and accompanying documents, as well as the opportunity to provide a Submission to the proposed Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage Development Application.

I look forward to a good outcome for the community, economy and environment in which I have lived for many years.

Yours sincerely,


Gavin Bamforth
Member, Save our Macleay River Inc.

I Object to Ovens Mountain Pumped Hydro as it is an Environmentally Destructive Waste of Public Money.
Australian Coal, Gas & Nuclear Power is far superior & essential instead.