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Best regards,

Aaron Rich

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I noticed “been” and thought it might be a typo worth checking out. Tools like spellscan.com often help confirm.


Cheers,

Rhonda

Wishing the Cecil Plains Farmers more support than they could ever wish for….I’m not sure where your crops end up….but perhaps those corporations/bodies which you sell to might pitch in for you (and themselves) as well. Don’t trust Arrow. If you knew their history, you couldn’t. With you in spirit. Best wishes

I think it is devastating to these people who are affected by by this massive intrusion on their farms & where is the government on this matter?

1. Health risks:

Arrow Energy’s Lynwood gas compressor station, which is proposed to be built less than 9km from Cecil Plains and its 400 residents, puts the health of local residents, farmland, ecology and water resources at risk via toxic air pollution and risks of contamination to water.


Dangerous chemicals are released into the air including volatile organic compounds, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, radioactive materials, diesel fumes, hydrogen sulfide, acrolein and heavy metals. Additional chemicals form in the atmosphere, including formaldehyde, particulate matter from aerosols and ground level ozone, which travel long distances damaging health and agriculture.


Reported health risks for those living in proximity to gas facilities include increased severity of asthma in children, higher hospitalisation and death rates due to heart attacks, heart failure, respiratory diseases and some cancers. Multiple studies have detected interference with normal development of unborn babies. This includes higher risk of low birth weight, pre-term delivery and spontaneous abortion, severe birth defects and risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.


The 16 gas engines which will operate the 4 gas compressors at Lynwood, will create a cocktail of noxious emissions on a daily basis including over 1 tonne of oxides of nitrogen and over 2 tonnes of carbon monoxide per day.


Arrow has failed to include assessment of other noxious air pollutants in their application, despite these being produced at their other existing gas compressor sites, as reported to the National Pollutant Inventory. These air pollutants represent a long-term risk to human health for local residents.


Arrow’s 2023-25 Plan of Operations for the Dalby Expansion Project will double the size of Lynwood at a future date from the currently proposed 4 compressors to 8. This proposal is the start of a mammoth future gas processing facility and toxic emissions in harmful proximity to regional residents and young families.


2. Insufficient baselines:

the air quality data to establish background air quality levels for assessing cumulative impacts for Cecil Plains has been taken from the Miles Air Quality Monitoring Station (AQMS), which has now ceased to operate. Miles is 130km from Cecil Plains, and has existing industrial uses, therefore does not provide an accurate air quality baseline for Cecil Plains.


3. Pollution must be monitored:

Arrow’s proposed mitigation actions for air pollution include “Implement a quantifiable monitoring and measuring program” but that program is not included. The gas industry decommissioned the air quality monitoring network in the Surat Basin in 2023. Despite the industry’s continual expansion, alarmingly there is now no air quality monitoring in the gasfields of southwest Queensland.


4. Dust, Light, Noise and traffic impacts:

Arrow’s proposal poses significant impacts during the construction and maintenance phases, through dust, light, noise and a hazardous increase in traffic density through our quiet rural town. The substantial increase in traffic movements through town will pose a significant safety hazard to young children who regularly cross the main road between the school, library and park. The flare will cause extreme light, noise and even vibrational impacts to nearby residents.


5. Community consultation:

Arrow Energy has failed to consult, engage with and keep the community informed about their plans to go ahead with the construction of the Lynwood compressor station. There has not been a community information session in the local area since 2021. This is a breach of their coexistence commitments, including those made during the EIS process.


6. Ozone pollution:

The intensification of gas processing infrastructure could affect agricultural yields and wildlife. Arrow needs to examine these impacts and the Government must impose additional conditions to protect the community, farming and nature.


7. Greenhouse Gas pollution:

According to company documents, the Lynwood gas plant will cause an additional 70,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1) on average per year, equating to over 1.25 million tonnes of additional greenhouse pollution in Australia over the course of its lifetime. These figures are based on estimates and not on actual measured emissions across the Surat Gas Project footprint. Australian scientists are concerned about the lack of measured fugitive gas emissions in Queensland gasfields, calling for baseline studies to be undertaken. Research by the International Energy Agency shows that actual methane emissions could in fact be double those recorded in Australia.


Yours sincerely,

Leigh McCarthy

Queensland, 4407, Austr

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There could be no more important or valuable use for land and water than to grow food and to care for the natural environment.

Our Bundaberg community is fighting a Coal exploration company called Fox Resources. It wants a Mineral Development Licence to explore for coal in the middle of a good bowl- a classified Priority Agricultural Area. We are opposing the granting of this licence by Scott Stewart, Minister for Resources and Critical Minerals. We know how you feel to be threatened and your quality of life compromised. Stay strong, fight together, support each other and lobby your pollies hard at all levels of government.

Stay strong, we’re with you!