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Silver City Energy Storage System

Broken Hill City

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Development of a 200 MW / 1600 MWh advanced compressed air energy storage facility with associated infrastructure.

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Notice of Exhibition (1)

Request for SEARs (6)

SEARs (17)

EIS (24)

Response to Submissions (1)

Agency Advice (14)

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Name Withheld
Object
KOORINGAL , New South Wales
Message
I Object to Silver City Energy Storage System - SSD-47065463
Broken Hill City, Unincorporated Far West Compressed Air 900MW as it is an Unproductive Waste of Public Money.
Australian Coal, Gas & a Nuclear Power Future is far superior & essential instead.
Name Withheld
Object
LAKE ALBERT , New South Wales
Message
I Object to Silver City Energy Storage System - SSD-47065463
Broken Hill City, Unincorporated Far West Compressed Air 900MW
Development of a 200 MW / 1600 MWh advanced compressed air energy storage facility with associated infrastructure.
This is yet another stupid part of the Fudged Fake Green Fraud!

This seriously stupid Silver City ESS plan
would be a very costly, insignificant, useless waste of public money.
Immediate recharge would be unreliable.
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.

Compressed Air, 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 COMPRESSED AIR, 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.
Linda & Travis Nadge
Object
BROKEN HILL , New South Wales
Message
Please see attached our submission
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Name Withheld
Support
MEREWETHER , New South Wales
Message
A new renewable energy technology and sustainable energy storage system is the way of the future and will greatly assist NSW struggling grid.
LeRoy Currie
Object
Leeton , New South Wales
Message
The current concept of renewable energy is flawed and challenges all the practical laws of physics
I object to this battery storage system and all other battery storage systems!
it is a practical impossibility to build enough battery storage to be of long term viable reliability
The site of this particular facility is remote and requires massive transmission lines, hence high capital and maintenance costs
The danger of these transmission lines to aerial agriculture. again be it grazing (helicopter mustering) or crop sowing/spraying
The biggest percentage of batteries are manufactured by Chinese controlled slave labour - no acknowledgement of this or embargos on Chinese manufactured components
The irresponsibility of supporting a belligerent aggressive nation that is proving to be a threat to our nation
The majority of rare earths for battery storage centres come from China
Short term life span of batteries
Recycling of batteries and control systems not planned
Heavy metal contamination of land, rendering it dangerous for food production, be that grazing or ag produce
The blind adherence to a confined road to renewable energy without exploring ALL alternatives and pursuing the new technology becoming available

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Project Details

Application Number
SSD-47065463
Assessment Type
State Significant Development
Development Type
Electricity Generation - Other
Local Government Areas
Broken Hill City

Contact Planner

Name
Elisha Dunn