00:02Uriara Village at the foothills of the Brindabellas provides an escape from city life.
00:08But some residents are concerned that's about to change.
00:11I understand they want to put what is potentially one of the largest battery storage systems right into that rural
00:17landscape.
00:18The proposal is for a 520 megawatt battery to be built on part of historic Uriara Station.
00:25The massive facility will store electricity when demand is low and release it to the grid when it's needed.
00:31I'm all for battery solutions. I don't really have a concern with it being that close to the village. I
00:39do have a concern about noise.
00:40The proposed site is two kilometres from the village and will include the battery infrastructure, substation and transmission lines.
00:48I'm all for green energy, I'm all for battery storage, but it's the right facility in the wrong location.
00:54The project has been submitted for an environmental assessment. If approved, it'll be twice the size of the battery at
01:00Williamsdale to the south.
01:02We have to decarbonise the grid, right?
01:05Residents say a community information session in June left them with more questions than answers.
01:10When we asked how much noise impact this would have, they couldn't tell us. When we asked what the bushfire
01:15modelling looked like, they hadn't done it.
01:17But it's a charged topic in the community.
01:19I don't feel like communities should necessarily try and find every single possible reason to stand against this sort of
01:27infrastructure.
01:28Their legitimate concerns should be taken into account. So where it's plain nimbyism, I'm very much against that.
01:36Residents say it's not their backyard, but Canberra's backyard.
01:40They can't just look inside their little construction zone and say, no, there's no other impact because they're actually part
01:46of a landscape.
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