Fire Risk and Wind Turbines on Your Land

I post an email from a friend which arrived in my inbox today. VERY important issue about fire safety and wind turbines on your property and properties nearby.

Dear Friends,

I recently came across some information that I think is very important for all of us to be aware of regarding the heightened risk of fire resulting from wind turbines. Not many people know that if a fire breaks out, whether due to the wind turbines themselves or from any other source, water bombing and other aerial support to firefighters may be difficult or even impossible in the vicinity of wind turbines. Please see the following:

Letter from a Firefighter’s Wife
https://stopthesethings.com/2013/01/11/as-australia-burns-an-impassioned-plea-from-a-fire-fighters-wife/comment-page-1/

Communities Burned by Turbines (Cached webpage)
https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20130123125049/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/141218/20180503-0021/stopthesethings.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/communities-burned-by-turbines-14th-january-2013-1-copy.pdf

Also, the following peer-reviewed article discusses wind turbines as a source of fire:

Fire risk assessments and fire protection measures for wind turbines: A review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402306872X

Much of Tasmania is due to eventually be covered by Renewable Energy Zones. (Please see AEMO's REZ map attached to this email.) The fire risk that these plans are likely to create is a serious problem for our entire state.

Fire brigades on the mainland are already refusing to fight fires around new renewables projects and transmission lines:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-06-19/cfa-renewables-protest-volunteer-firefighters-transmission-lines/103995318

What will happen here?

- AG

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