Narrabri Gas

I object to the possible fracking of the land in the piliga. This style of mining has catastrophic effects on the water sources and the land.i have spent my childhood in the surrounding area and experienced such unique and rich flora and funa, some of which are specific to the area. Posioning or the aquifers would have a sever negative effect on the land and humans. Please do not allow santos to continue this project.

I object to any CSG mining in the Pilbara region

I am totally against this fracking proposal and application: leave the Earth alone and stop F****king with it!. invest in Solar, Wind And Tesla battery solutions...electric Bikes and cars are a much better investment and more sustainable ; change is happening around you....be the change.. Nobody wants this fracking to happen anywhere in Australia or any other Country..we are on a spinning Planet in a vast universe.. Compare it to a Cricket ball spinning to ward its target full of holes, no way will it stay on its trajectory.... one hole too many and this Planet will do the same and thats the end for all of us........

AS a citizen of a democratic country I object to this mining.
It is well documented about the impact of gas seam mining and how it effects water and the health of the humans whom come in contact with these toxins. It is a public health risk and will destroy the Great Australian Basin and all plant, animal life and the quality of human life that rely on this water for sustenance.
Our Great Australian Basin is the life blood for many farmers and Australians. To knowingly allow Santos to mine this area is both environmentally irresponsible and a public health risk.

Due to the potential environmental impact, especially on the water basin, I do not support the development of this project.

We need to devote our full commitment now, to sustainable energy.
Leave fossil fuels in the ground.
Water, healthy farmlands and community are our real wealth.
This is a great opportunity for us to make a powerful change and lasting impact, steer our future in a new direction, recognise our true value and richness.
Together we say no to this mine.

Objection to Santos' Narrabri Gas Project in the Pilliga.

The Gamilaraay are the Traditional Custodians of this land. Their objections to CSG should be respected.

The Pilliiga is a nationally listed biodiversity hotspot. We must preserve areas of such ecological significance. This includes ensuring continuity of habitat through the maintenance of large undisturbed tracts of land and the provision of wildlife corridors. A CSG project is not compatible with habitat protection. The preservation of our ecological heritage should be a long term goal and should not be compromised by a short term CSG project.

The Great Australian Basin is Australia's largest groundwater aquifer. The Pilliga forest is essential in ensuring water quality and supply. Contamination from CSG activity would have significant and far reaching consequences. The risks from this project to our water resource are too great and outweigh any benefits from CSG.

The thousands of tonnes of salt waste will cause long term and probably irreparable damage to our forests and farming land. The risks are too great.

We have to listen to the Traditional Custodians f the land. We have to listen to our farmers. We have to preserve our ecological heritage for future generations. We have to reject Santos' Narrabri Gas Project in the Pilliga.

I would like to have listen other alternatives rather than another coal extraction. An option with less impact in our already fragile environment and its serious global warming forecasts, which can affect specially coastal cities like the one I'm living in - Sydney.
Thanks

I am very much against the Narrabri Gas Project and submit that it poses more harm than any benefits that can be derived.

Not only does it risk precious water sources, including the Great Australian Basin--Australia's largest groundwater aquifer, the Great Artesian Basin and the Murray-Darling Basin it threatens the local wildlife that call this region home.

The Santos gasfield would fragment 95,000 hectares of the Pilliga with well pads, roads, and water and gas pipelines--damaging vital habitat including the 15 nationally listed biodiversity hotspots, and threatening the survival of endangered species like the Koala, Spotted-tailed Quoll, Black-striped Wallaby, Eastern Pygmy-possum, Pilliga Mouse and South-eastern Long-eared Bat. .

Already prone to severe bushfires, the risk of fires would increase throughout the Pilliga's tinder-box as Methane flare stacks up to 50m high would be running day and night, even on total fire ban days. The project would increase ignition sources as well as extracting, transporting and storing a highly flammable gas right within this extremely fire-prone forest.

The Gamilaraay Traditional Custodians are opposed and have been fighting for a decade to save the hundreds of cultural sites, the songlines and stories that are so essential to their heritage.

The local farmers and other local community groups in the area are also rejecting the project with many participating in protest actions. The surrounding communitiies feel very strongly and share an opinion that is both valid and supported by evidence of the harm that this project will cause.

The Narrabri Gas Project has a long history of spills and leaks of toxic CSG water.
Santos has already contaminated a freshwater aquifer in the Pilliga with uranium at levels 20 times higher than safe drinking water guidelines, as well as lead, aluminium, arsenic and barium². In addition, there have been over 20 reported spills and leaks of toxic CSG water from storage ponds, pipes and well heads. Santos' track record does not suggest reliability.


Furthermore, the coal seam gas fuels dangerous climate change. Methane is by far the major component of natural gas, and is a greenhouse gas 72 times more powerful than CO². CSG fields contribute to climate change through the leakage of methane during the production, transport, processing and use of coal seam gas.

Also, How does Santos propose to dispose of the hundreds and thousands of tonnes of salt waste that will be produced as a by-product of their work? Between 17,000 and 42,000 tonnes of salt waste would be produced each year. This industry would leave a toxic legacy in NSW.

And if this wasn't enough, human health is directly compromised by coal seam gas
A range of hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds can be released into the air from coal seam gas operations, including flaring of gas wells. The effects of volatile organic compounds vary, but can cause eye, nose and airway irritation, headache, nausea, dizziness and loss of coordination⁴. These impacts have been documented in human populations nearby to existing gasfields in Queensland, Sydney and in America.

Thank you for your time and your consideration. Please do not leave Australia with a legacy it cannot correct.

I stand against the current plans for the implementation of the Narrabri Gas Project.

I firmly believe the project if implemented will significantly impact threatened and endangered flora and fauna in this area if the project were to go ahead.

After reading the environmental impact statement, it's clear there is insufficient research done to ensure the protection of the environment in the Narrabri state forest.

There has not been an agreement between the Gomeroi's Native People's Claim and Santos, which implies this has not been agreed upon by the landholders and is being enforced.

I vehemently oppose the continuation of the plans to continue and carry out this project and I will continue to stand against any further plans to destroy the Narrabri State Forest and its surrounding environment

Please intervene to ensure there will me NO coal seam gas wells drilled in the Pilliga forest region of NSW by Santos. The damage that would be done to the area and to the vast Great Artesian basin will be irreparable, and totally against the wishes of the Australian people. There was no National referendum endorsing approval of drilling any wells in this crucially important area of our environment, never mind the 850 wells that apparently have been approved. I'm at a loss to know how approval was given, and by whom, and whether the Department of the environment were involved in the decision. If they were, their integrity needs to be questioned.
Geraldine Milton M.Bioethics (Monash)

I object to CSG mining anywhere in Australia due to the overwhelming evidence that CSG is a major threat to the ecosystems around the wells including contamination to ground water. The state government refuses to listen to communities in which gas exploration is taking place. The NSW government needs to stop focusing on short term gains and instead focus on long term solutions and transition to renewable energies.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I wish to express my concerns about the proposal put forward by Santos to undertake development of a Coal Seam Gas (CSG) project at Pilliga.

I firmly believe that the environmental risks associated with this proposal far outweigh the potential benefits of new jobs and business activity. CSG has a dreadful track record of environmental damage and lack of respect for the wishes of local land holders.

Fracking has numerous major environmental issues, including ground water contimination (Artesian Basin), degradation of native forests and leaks of methane gas.

The economic benefits that would flow to the region will be short-term and not evenly spread amongst the local communities who will suffer the environmental degradation and inconvenience.

Accordingly, I urge you to act in the interests of the brader Australian community as well as the local communities and reject this latest proposal from Santos.

Yours Sincerely

I object to the Narrabri Gas Project as being highly likely to damage the environment, particularly the water table, and being unnecessary. Australia has plenty of gas, no more needs to be extracted, it only requires the Federal Government to regulate it in a better manner.

Simply , that Gas project for the Narrabri not go ahead ,particularly with the record of previous gas extraction having unrecorded/measured methane leakages from wells.

CSG is damaging to our environment and people !!
This we know to be fact !!
I am submitting my objection to this on these grounds !!

Attn:
Executive Director
Resource Assessments
Department of Planning and Environment.

I am a long- time Liberal voter. Like many of my old "yuppie" friends I have been a bit careless about the environment. However, the obvious changes in weather conditions here and in the rest of the world, including in the Artic/Antarctic, has finally snapped me to attention.

I consider myself a "green" Liberal and have many friends who identify with this. We are not anti-business and are either professionals or run our own small businesses, but we are horrified by what your government is doing to our land, by sucking so much of our natural resources out of the ground with nowhere near enough controls. We are not stupid, we all know private companies put profit & shareholders first in every instance. We are all frustrated by how slowly governments & public servants often move & the fact they are sticklers for the rules, but this provides a level of overview that private companies such as Santos are able to avoid. No protocols seem to stop the "accidents" that have occurred here or overseas.

Therefore I OBJECT strongly to the proposed CSG project near Narrabri, prime farming land, with water supplied from the Great Artesian Basin being diverted, and request that alternative "clean" energy is instead invested in. The Coal & gas lobbies are strong & I know there are many workers in those industries who worry about losing their jobs. But this is old technology, offer them retraining in these new & developing industries and put NSW in the forefront not dragging behind old dated & carbon emitting fuels.

The recent hike in gas prices shows this industry is not able to properly supply us - too much being sold overseas for more profit I presume - perhaps Mike Cannon-Brooks has the right idea, get Elon Musk on board & see if we can use our bounteous ( & increasing) amount of sunshine to power the country. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/atlassian-cofounder-mike-cannonbrookes-offers-to-find-funding-for-teslas-aussie-energy-plan-20170310-guv9pj

I recently saw some great new wind turbines called Vortex that oscillate so don't have the bird-damaging arms of the existing ones, https://www.facebook.com/viralthread/videos/698234413682578/ perhaps we can jump onto that technology....or better still develop more of our own?

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> I strongly object to this project.
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> 1. large extraction of ground water causing huge salt problems and taking precious water from the aquifers.
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> 2. Destruction of over 1000 hectares of the Pilliga Forest- totally unacceptable as this forest needs to remain connected and intact as a wildlife haven.People want more bushland not less.
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> 3.Possible polluting of waterways will could put agriculture in the region at risk. if we are to become the food bowl of Asia the one thing they want is Clean food.
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> 4. Coal seam gas extraction could cause fracturing of the sandstone rock base and lead to the drying up of lakes.
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> 5. Burning more gas , a fossil fuel, is adding to the heating of the climate not helping us reach our climate obligations.
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> There appears to be a viable alternative to the fuel supply which is renewables and storage.

CSG is dirty. Methane leaks out of the ground, which is far more greenhouse than burning coal. CSG extraction uses toxic chemicals to fracture the group deep deep down. These chemicals the enter the underground water system (Great Artisian Aquifer). The land usage for CSG is intense, scarring, and highly detrimental to allowing the natural environment to do its thing of supporting live. The toxic chemicals used to Frac, often bubble up through the wells, and surrounding areas, and poison the ground, and surface water.

To allow CSG anywhere is poor management. To allow CSG in an area such as the Pilliga is criminal.

Do not approve this project.

I object to the going ahead with The Narrabri Gas Project as it;

- Risks precious water sources, including the Great Australian Basin--Australia's largest groundwater aquifer!!

- My family live in the area and I feel that this project posses a huge unforseable health risk.

- I feel that this project is based on pure GREED!! And that there is complete ignorance around all of the side effects that this project is risking.

- The Gamilaraay Traditional Custodians are opposed to it!!

- The Narrabri Gas Project has a long history of spills and leaks of toxic CSG water--Santos cannot be trusted to manage the project safely.

- Australia has already been raped for its minerals and gas to the point of no return. Most of the money has been taken off shore so why not Narrabri stand up and be truly Australian by not allowing Santos to bully you and change history by making future generation proud.

- Please read the long but so informative environmental report.