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"Anti-renewable campaigners across the eastern states have come out in force
against a New South Wales (NSW) wind project they live nowhere near, trying to
convince the state planning authority that coal and nuclear are better
alternatives.
The 1.3 gigawatt (GW) Pottinger wind farm – which could also include a major
solar farm and a massive battery sized at up to 500 MW / 2GWh battery has come
through what, on the face of it, looks like a gruelling submission process,
collecting 84 noes and 77 ayes.
But the details of the submissions reveal that there were no objections from
anyone living within 20 kilometres of the project, located sough of Hay in the
south west of the state. There were seven submissions from locals, and all of
those were in support.
There were 12 objections from people within 100km of the project and 15 in
support, and the remaining 126 submissions came from “the rest of Australia”,
according to the submissions response lodged by developers Someva Renewables
and its development partner AGL Energy.
The opposition is “certainly organised” and is coming from geographic clusters
of activity, says Someva development director Tim Mead.
“From our perspective, the objections in this case came from many seemingly
organised groups, some in fact were organised groups but in other cases they
were clearly clusters of individuals from the same location,” he told
Renew
Economy.
“You see repeat styles and repeat messages.
“We’ve got objections from Queensland, Victoria, and to your point about
whether these hold merit and whether the planning process takes them into
account, the answer is no.”
However, the project will still need to be assessed by the Independent Planning
Commissions (IPC), NSW’s planning arbiter which kicks in when a council objects
or more than 50 community objections are received.
Objections count towards the IPC trigger even if they are made by people living
in other states."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
