Page 2411 - Week 07 - Thursday, 27 August 2020
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(10) Do these transmission lines have the potential to interfere with residents’ mobile phone reception.
(11) Were the owners of the easement required to agree to this project, or could it have proceeded over their objection and did owners agree to it.
(12) Will the ACT Government provide residents with readings of electromagnetic fields (EMF) radiation before and after these transmission lines go live; if not, can the Government provide access to EMF readers.
(13) Will the ACT Government provide compensation to residents who purchased residential blocks in Ginninderra Estate without being informed of this project’s development application owing to “administrative error”.
Mr Gentleman: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The EIS was deemed complete on 17 October 2018.
(2) Following a decision by Government on 24 November 2014 to locate the substation near Stockdill Drive, the 90m wide easement through the golf course was the most feasible route for the new 330kV transmission line from the Stockdill substation to the existing Canberra substation. This easement was established in 1972 and contains the existing Woden to Holt 132kV transmission line as well as provision for a second transmission line.
(3) In September 2019, TransGrid engaged Lonergan’s Surveying to survey the newly constructed towers and TransGrid undertook an independent audit of metal fences running adjacent to the easement. The audit was undertaken to ensure the existing fences, in proximity of the easement, were in accordance with TransGrid’s fencing guidelines. This is to minimise induced voltage build-up in long lengths of metal fences located parallel with the transmission lines. Induced voltage is caused when metal structures are within the electromagnetic field (EMF) of a transmission line. The longer/larger the metal structure is, the more likely it is to create a charge. Transferred voltage is where a structure is physically touching the transmission lines and the transfer of direct voltage occurs. There are no structures located close enough to the transmission lines for direct voltage to be transferred.
(4) The new TransGrid transmission lines are co-located in the 90m easement with existing Evoenergy transmission lines. The new transmission lines were positioned so that they would not interfere with the existing infrastructure and maintain safe distance from other development in accordance with the Australian Standards.
(5) This is a matter for TransGrid.
(6) The easement area has been constructed as a passive open space area with paths and ornamental landscape features which do not encourage people to congregate for long periods of time.
(7) The public notification of the development application (DA) was performed correctly with all adjacent lessees notified of the development. The following blocks were not re-linked to the development application after the public notification process: Block 1560 Belconnen, Block 1462 Belconnen, Block 1559 Belconnen, Block 1600 Belconnen, Block 1582 Belconnen, Block 1601 Belconnen, Block 1469 Belconnen, Block 2 Section 132 Holt.
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