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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY - Signing ePetition - Rejection of New Transmission Line Corridor from Walcha LGA to Bayswater

To sign the ePetition, confirm you are a resident of New South Wales and enter your title, first name and last name. Once you click ‘submit’ you will have signed the ePetition and will be re-directed to the Legislative Assembly’s ‘ePetitions open for signature’ page

Rejection of New Transmission Line Corridor from Walcha LGA to Bayswater

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly, In Oct 2025, EnergyCo, on behalf of the NSW Government, moved the study for the proposed transmission line corridor from Bayswater to a new route through the Upper Hunter, into the New England via the Walcha LGA (the “New Route”). We, the undersigned, reject the proposed New Route as it: • Traverses through over 100 privately owned working farms and prime agricultural land; • Traverses through known habitat for Koala and many other threatened species; • Is economically irresponsible, has no social licence in the communities it will pass through, with no meaningful community consultation; • Was found to be an unviable route by the NSW Government in 2024 (only slight amendments made to the past studied route); • Will make it harder to fight bushfires within the area. • Will result in increased construction costs and delays to project rollouts due to the path; • Is unnecessary - the Central South ‘Hub’ that the New Route transmission lines are planned to join to is redundant, with no approved or planned projects to connect to it. • The communities that are impacted by the “New Route” completely reject and oppose the “New Route” and the project in its entirety. The undersigned petitioners ask the Legislative Assembly to call on the Government to officially reject the “New Route”, to instruct EnergyCo to develop an alternate route that uses pre-existing infrastructure, crown or public land, which does not impact privately owned prime agricultural country, the environment or our regional communities.

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