Bowmans Creek Wind Farm

Singleton Council

09/01/2024

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singleton-council-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm-redacted.pdf (PDF, 561.81 KB)

22/12/2023

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grant-robertson-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 1.63 MB)

22/12/2023

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malcom-ritter-submission-3-redacted.pdf (PDF, 82.66 KB)

22/12/2023

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robyn-crow-submission.pdf (PDF, 106.07 KB)

22/12/2023

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kelly-flanagan-submission_redacted.pdf (PDF, 178.64 KB)

Muswellbrook Shire Council

22/12/2023

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muswellbrook-shire-council-submission-to-the-independent-planning-commission.pdf (PDF, 590.83 KB)

22/12/2023

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sandra-wood-submission.pdf (PDF, 391.39 KB)

22/12/2023

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catherine-ball-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 1.87 MB)

22/12/2023

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lynette-lablack-submission-2-redacted.pdf (PDF, 343.14 KB)

22/12/2023

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paul-reeves-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 68.94 KB)

22/12/2023

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gregory-ball-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 133.65 KB)

22/12/2023

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meg-robertson-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 69.43 KB)

22/12/2023

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ross-clydsdale-submission.pdf (PDF, 96.51 KB)

22/12/2023

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brigitte-thomas-submission.pdf (PDF, 401.62 KB)

22/12/2023

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kim-granger-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 68.94 KB)

22/12/2023

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name-not-provided-submission.pdf (PDF, 83.89 KB)

22/12/2023

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save-our-surroundings-sos.pdf (PDF, 4.95 MB)

22/12/2023

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clint-thomas-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 343.91 KB)

22/12/2023

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m-fallding-hunter-valley-eco-cabins.pdf (PDF, 220.16 KB)

22/12/2023

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peter-york-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 113.19 KB)

22/12/2023

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jan-thompson-submission.pdf (PDF, 97.43 KB)

22/12/2023

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mike-kelly-musewellbrook-chamber-of-commerece-and-industry-inc.pdf (PDF, 121.52 KB)

22/12/2023

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sandra-robertson-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 1.22 MB)

22/12/2023

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cameron-williams-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 402.13 KB)

22/12/2023

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lynette-lablack-submission-1-redacted.pdf (PDF, 391.05 KB)

22/12/2023

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nola-connor-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 173.21 KB)

22/12/2023

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todd-shorter-submission-redacted.pdf (PDF, 93.6 KB)

17/12/2023

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name-redacted-3-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 551.35 KB)

14/12/2023

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malcolm-ritter-2-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 86.65 KB)

14/12/2023

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cherylle-stone-submission-for-bowmans-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 102.49 KB)

14/12/2023

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malcolm-ritter-1-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 82.8 KB)

14/12/2023

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bill-stinson-submission-to-bowmans-creek-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 16.43 MB)

12/12/2023

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name-redacted-1-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 96.16 KB)

12/12/2023

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alexandra-downes-submissions-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 96.19 KB)

12/12/2023

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name-redacted-2-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm_redacted.pdf (PDF, 96.16 KB)

Upper Hunter Shire Council

New South Wales

29/11/2023

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Please refer to attached letter.

letter-to-ipc--bowmans-creek-wind-farmpdf_redacted.pdf (PDF, 317.92 KB)

New South Wales

18/12/2023

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Dear Commissioners Please find attached my Submission for the Bowmans Creek Wind Farm Project (SSD – 10315) (Project). Attachment 1 Submission to the IPC Dec 2023 from Nigel Wood I am making a submission that objects to this proposed development going ahead. The proposed Recommended Consent Conditions made by the NSW Department of Planning and Energy (Department) have been made based on false and misleading information supplied to the Department by Ark energy. My submission “attached” will show that: • The Department have been negligent in their duty, they have not ensured Ark energy have complied with the requirements of the relevant NSW legislation, guidelines, and bulletins for this project. • The Department have conducted work on behalf of Ark energy. • The Department have ignored advice from their own appointed independent expert OHD. • The Department have ignored advice from other Government departments notably the Rural Fire Service. • The Department have misled the families, and communities who will be impacted by the development. • The actions of the Department prior to and during the assessment period for the Project have assisted Ark Energy in misleading the families and communities who will be impacted by this Project. • The Department have provided false and misleading advice and information to the IPC. By their actions the Department are trying to deceive the IPC that their recommended consent conditions will adequately protect the families and communities who will be impacted by the Project, they do not. The Department and Ark energy are aware EnergyCo are proposing to construct a new 500 KV transmission line through the site of the Bowmans Creek wind farm. However, neither party has made the IPC aware of this fact. I suggest the IPC contact EnergyCo to receive an update on the transmission line and corridor. I also suggest the IPC contact the Rural Fire Service Commissioner to discuss the increased fire risk the immediate families will be exposed to if the project is approved. Both the Department and Ark energy have promoted the project on the back of NSW and Australia meeting obligations made for renewable energy targets by both the State and Federal Governments. However, this should not come at the expense of ignoring and flaunting the legislation that is in place to regulate and manage the planning process. Legislation is developed to protect everyone, and it is the Departments role to ensure it has been complied with. The Department have been negligent in their role, if Ark energy is not held accountable by the Department, where do society draw the line? Where does it stop? The recommended consent conditions do not give the community or non-associated impacted family’s adequate protection now or into the future. We are suffering because of the conduct by Ark energy and the Department. The Department are not complying with the purpose of their Organisational Compliance Policy. The policy states. “This policy establishes that the Department of Planning and Environment (department) is committed to complying with all legislative and regulatory obligations in the performance of its functions”. If the IPC despite all the issues raised see you must approve the project, please put in place consent conditions that will protect the families who will be impacted. They have not been protected by the relevant legislation because it has not been followed, and they have not been protected by the Department because they have been negligent in their duties. As a minimum put in a consent condition that gives families the chance to start over somewhere else. A consent condition regarding acquisition is not out of line and is one of the recommendations made by the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner and is also recognized as an option in the Wind Energy Visual Assessment Bulletin. The consent condition would need to be along the lines: For a period of 5 years from the approval of the project the owner of any non-associated residence, property, or business within 5.0 km of any wind turbine should have the option to trigger acquisition by the developer. The acquisition should include the property value and adequate additional compensation to allow like for like replacement of their property or business. The property should be valued as if the wind farm had not been approved. In assessing the Bowmans Creek wind farm project, the Department have been and are continuing to be negligent in their duties. The Department have been negligent in their duty, they have not ensured Ark energy have complied with the requirements of the relevant NSW legislation, guidelines, and bulletins for this project. The Department have misled the community and undermined the planning process in NSW by their actions and inactions. The Department have knowingly provided false and misleading information to the IPC. The Department are not complying with the purpose of their Organisational Compliance Policy. The policy states. “This policy establishes that the Department of Planning and Environment (department) is committed to complying with all legislative and regulatory obligations in the performance of its functions”. The Department must be held accountable for their actions. There should be an enquiry into the Department to investigate their conduct which at best could be described as incompetent and at worst could prove to be corrupt.

n-wood-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm-29012024-redacted.pdf (PDF, 672.51 KB)

nigel-wood-submission-for-bowmans-creek-wind-farm-2-redacted.pdf (PDF, 667.13 KB)

submission-to-the-ipc-dec-2023-from-nigel-wood-redacted.pdf (PDF, 3 MB)

New South Wales

17/12/2023

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Independent Planning Commission Government of NSW Commissioners Professor Alice Clark Adrian Pilton, Richard Pearson Planning Officer Jane Anderson To The Commissioners and Planning Officer Reference number SSD-10315 Construction and operation of a wind farm with up to 60 wind turbines and associated infrastructure Location Muscle Creek Shire of Muswellbrook A submission of objection for the Bowmans Creek wind farm. Consideration must be given to the condition of consent for the purchase of properties within a 5 kms, like a mines buffer zone. Construction of wind turbines on the Bowman’ Creek alters the environment and landscape, the turbines are visually intrusive, shown on information distributed are clearly seen far and wide. Destruction of the endangered bird life and migrating birds flying into a wind turbine is a cruel death. The mental fatigue to residents, by noise and worry, produce symptoms such as tinnitus, stress, fatigue, and migraines due to lack so sleep that is a debilitating thought to everyone’s health living within proximity of the inevitable wind turbines though out construction and working. Landowners at Muscle Creek only have one roadway in and out of the area, a lightning strike to a turbine or a fault may ignite a fire to the countryside, with disastrous consequences and place resident landowners in a potentially death trap for everyone. The turbine lights continuously flashing at nighttime can not be blocked out nor ignored, an impossibility, the adverse effect on landowners will not be ceased. There hasn’t been the construction and placement of this calibre in the Shire and surrounding area as at Bowmans’s Creek, therefore the effect is unknown to local lands owners. Considerable thought, of construction and quantity of 56 wind turbines of such enormous dimensions, for all effected residents must be acknowledged. Yours sincerely C Ray

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New South Wales

30/11/2023

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MY NAME IS ANTHONY PARKER. MY ADDRESS IS 829 MUSCLE CREEK RD MUSCLE CREEK NSW 2333. I LIVE WITHIN 4KM FROM THE NEAREST PROPOSED WIND TURBINE. TO THIS DATE I HAVE NOT BEEN CONSULTED OR GIVEN ANY INFORMATION FROM THE PROJECT COMPANY. I HAVE VIEWED THE IMPACT ASSESMENT AND MY PROPERTY DOES NOT EVEN EXIST IN THE ASSESMENT. THERE ARE NEIGBOURING PROPERTYS IN THE ASSESSMENT THAT HAVE BEEN INDENTITED AND CONSULTED WITH. THESE PROPERTIES ARE AT A FURTURE DISTANCE FROM THE TURBINES THEM MY PROPERTY. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE FUTURE OF THE HUNTER VALLEY NEEDS TO SWITCH TO RENEWALABLE ENERGY BUT BELIVE ALL PROPERTIES IMPACTED BY THESE TURBINES NEED TO BE CONSULTED. I 100% OBJECT THIS PROJECT UNTIL I AM CONSULTED.

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New South Wales

30/11/2023

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The turbines will reduce the land value, become an eyesore and add no value to the community This will affect my retirement and force me to leave the area at a much greater cost if I want to find a similar property which I currently own.

30/11/2023

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landscape and visual amenity with regard to wind turbines, including shadow flicker, potential for damage to wildlife, and aviation lighting are going to be a real issue. Its going to force us to have to move from the area

New South Wales

30/11/2023

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The windmills will be a horrible eyesore and should not be a consideration for renewables in the area. We should be exploring Muswellbrook Coals hydro proposal and investing in bio-gas technology The constant noise and shadow flicking on the homes will be terrible to deal with and I am afraid its going to push families away and reduce the property values

New South Wales

28/11/2023

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Wind Turbines destroy the natural landscape for many tens to hundreds of kilometres. It breaks my soul driving through pristine natural or rural lands and as you come over a hill your scenic view is filled with the presence of ugly, disgusting, massive and invasive wind turbines. I hate them. They have destroyed such places as Silverton for example, where when you look west you see the beautiful scenery and then you turn around and the sky scape is filled with the turbines. This is one place of many in our beautiful state of NSW and country overall. How good for the environment are the wind turbines really? Are they recyclable? These massive metal constructions. Is the sound that comes from them safe for animals and people? And many more questionable area's of their use. They are a mental health hazard, they make me and I would like to assume many many others feel sick at the sight of them, and for what? There are better ways to produce energy for consumption than to put these monstrosities up throughout communities and across beautiful land, sky and sea scapes. Please don't erect wind turbines in my community or anywhere in our beautiful country!! Think about it, please. They are not necessary.

New South Wales

22/11/2023

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Contamination to waterways, soil profiles and waste management arising from wind turbine blades containing high levels of BPA is acknowledged as a ticking time-bomb. As the leading edges of the blades erode, a fine dust of BPA (an endocrine disrupter) is shed into the air. This toxic chemical is slowly but surely working its way up the food chain and finishing up on our dinner tables. Although undertimed, presently the NSW DPE, EPA and presumably all LGA's consider that they absolved from any responsibility regarding contamination caused or waste management arising from wind turbine blades. So who then is responsible? Until such time as this conundrum has been resolved and an environmentally acceptable plan is legislated, I call on the NSW government to adopt the 'precautionary principal' and initiate a moretorium on all industrial wind farm applications, including Bowmand Creek. Futhermore, should this wind farm be approved a mandatory setback distance of a minimum of 6 klms should be adopted to any residence. This distance would be in keeping with the new DPE wind guidelines as vividly illustrated in the pictorial montage on page 26.