Wlliamsdale 500MW Power Station

>No Pandy, according to the plans the turbines would be one of the closest, if not the >closest structures to both Macarthur and Fadden. Somewhere around 600m away.

That was the boundary.

“Residents say the power plant would site nine 35 metre chimney stacks, 1 kilometre from houses.”

No Pandy, according to the plans the turbines would be one of the closest, if not the closest structures to both Macarthur and Fadden. Somewhere around 600m away.
The big data buildings would be unlikely to shield these suburbs from the turbines noise. The buildings are on the East (Monaro Hwy) and South (Isabella Drive) side of the block. If anything, their positioning would likely reflect the turbine noise towards the suburbs.
The Actew people have offered to sound proof the turbines “if” noise becomes an issue.
One more thing to note is that the data centre will not be built for a few years if at all. The turbines, on the other hand, would be erected immediately.

Miz, that Alice Springs unit stack (how big?) is 300m away from homes. In Tuggers, the stacks are what 900m away? And shielded by those big data buildings.

areaman said :

Why not build the data centre there too ?

Why, it’s in the middle of nowhere and would be a pain to commute to.

Ha. That didn’t stop them building the Defence HQ JOC in a much more remote spot. It opens for business in a few months, it’ll be 24 hours a day, on shifts of around 500 people or more, and NO public transport. And it’s lit up like a Christmas tree. Not noisy though, except the beepy machines going around at all hours doing whatever it is they do (pushing mud).

Pandy – Well done for the Williamsdale suggestion! PS the ‘scaled down’ Tuggers project is not canned (yet). (All they have to do is move it out of a green buffer zone into a real industrial area and everyone would be happy . . . )

Three gas turbines @15MW each (what the ‘scaled down’ data centre proposes) make more noise and pollution than you might expect – see link for ONE turbine here –

http://www.powerwater.com.au/powerwater/news/media_releases/2007/1001_noise_report_ron_goodin_power_station.htm

It caused so much distress it was moved far away.

It would be awful to have something this noisy and fumey over the back fence . . .

Clown Killer: Proof? And the EGP is already there.

Tom tom: This is what the project should have been in the 1st place. Mackay pulled this from the hat when his pet project for Tuggereanong got canned.

That would be comedy. A GTA style get away with the helicopter dropping out of sky as if controlled by a red frog fuelled four year old.

Nearly as funny as Rugby League players running for parliament.

So, why isn’t it being built next to the Gaol?

seems a prime site if ever they had one, no-one would complain about exhausts over the inmates….

and here’s another question:

re the Gaol location, will southcare be moving its base? seems a bit crazy to have a helicopter based next to a gaol…..

Its a datacentre. the only people who will work there, are those weird IT guys who dont do normal humans. Take them out of general population like kiddie fiddlers and corrupt police in the prison system.