The sterilisation of this rich farming and bushland will do harm to our environment. The pathway for this transmission line will expose great swaths of land and will aid in accelerating more carbon in the atmosphere.

Landscape impacts derive from changes in the physical landscape whilst visual impacts relate to changes in the composition of available views and are assessed as the effects on people (visual receptors) who reside, travel through or work within the Project area.

The Lerderderg Gorge and State Park is rich in Culture and Heritage. This significance area also covers the Pyrete Range block of the State Park.

There continues to be ongoing disagreement within the medical and scientific communities on the conclusiveness of evidence and degrees of linkage between EMFs and various illnesses and diseases.

Safety, for residents, visitors and animals, over the entire life of the infrastructure, needs to be considered when evaluating the alignment options of overhead high voltage powerlines.

Residents living in the Moorabool Shire do so because they want to be near Melbourne while still living a lifestyle surrounded by a semi-rural atmosphere and its associated natural landscapes. 

Native habitat will be destroyed as the power lines carve a path through the region that boasts Victoria’s treasured State and National Parks

The region has both Extreme and High to Very-High Risk areas identified in the Victorian Fire Risk Register.

Eight threatened fauna species are considered to have a moderate to high potential to occur within or directly surrounding the AoI.