Narrabri Gas

I have several reason that I have listed below.

1. Farmers and other local community reject the project
Extensive community surveys have shown an average of 96% opposition to CSG. This stretches across a massive 3.2 million hectares of country surrounding the Pilliga forest, including 99 communities. Hundreds of farmers have participated in protest actions unlike any previously seen in the region.
2. The Narrabri Gas Project risks precious water sources, including the Great Artesian Basin--Australia's largest groundwater aquifer
The Narrabri gasfield poses a real risk to our two most precious water resources: the Great Artesian Basin and the Murray-Darling Basin. The area of the Great Artesian Basin with the highest recharge rates is almost entirely contained within the Pilliga East forest. In a worst-case scenario, the water removed for CSG extraction could reduce water pressure in the recharge areas--potentially stopping the free flow of waters to the surface at springs and bores across the whole Great Artesian Basin.¹

3. 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
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 cannot be trusted.

4. The Pilliga is a haven for threatened wildlife
The Pilliga is one of 15 nationally listed `biodiversity hotspots' and is vital to the survival of threatened species like the Koala, Spotted-tailed Quoll, Black-striped Wallaby, Eastern Pygmy-possum, Pilliga Mouse and South-eastern Long-eared Bat. People come from all over the world to spot
exotic'' animals like that

6. 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.


7. Thousands of tonnes of salt waste will result from the project
Santos has no solution for disposing of the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of salt that will be produced. Between 17,000 and 42,000 tonnes of salt waste would be produced each year. This industry would leave a toxic legacy in NSW.

8. Risk of fires would increase throughout the Pilliga's tinder-box conditions
Methane flare stacks up to 50m high would be running day and night, even on total fire ban days. The Pilliga is prone to severe bushfires. The project would increase ignition sources as well as extracting, transporting and storing a highly flammable gas right within this extremely fire-prone forest.
- See more at: https://www.wilderness.org.au/final-push-pilliga#sthash.zTLlCLFP.dpuf

We need to focus on renewable energy, we can't keep digging up valuabe and protected land. That's what our ignorant ancestors did, we are now informed and know it is wrong.

I oppose Santos' Narrabri Gas Project in the Pilliga.

It is clear that this project will devastate a unique ecological area. The drilling of the gas wells will also have a detrimental effect on farmers in the region who rely on its resources.

The government should not allow this project to proceed in light of the risk it involves in relation to the broad range of threatened species that reside in the Pilliga.

Once the Pilliga is transformed into an industrialised gasfield future generations will loose a vital environmental and cultural area, that cannot be replaced.

I strongly object to the The Narrabri Gas Project due to the existence of feasible alternatives to extractive energy processes.
Extractive and invasive gas and mining processes are coming to an end economically and are unnecessarily destructive of land and ecosystems which could serve other purposes, and should be maintained regardless.

I object to the proposed Santos' Narrabi Gas Project in the Pilliga area.

My grounds for the objection are:

1. This project could have a substantial impact on the Artesian Basin. It could depressurise the entire basin - not only impacting the Pilliga area but the whole area drawing on the Great Artesian Basin.

2. The Pilliga forest is home to 25 nationally listed and 48 state-listed threatened species and is also the provider of so many resources to the local community.

Santos is only looking for the profits it can make out of the project and "stuff the consequences" as they will not be around to see them

NO GAS FIELD. The age of fossil fuels is over. Develop renewable resources, big corporations have the means to do this. The future of the Planet is everybody's responsibility. I believe the Traditional Owners don't want this. The land/'evvironment' is not a commodity.

The Narrabri Gas Project has a long history of spills and leaks of toxic CSG water (lead, aluminium, arsenic and barium).
The Gamilaraay Traditional Custodians are opposed.
Farmers and other local community reject the project.
Studies of similar projects conducted overseas suggest contamination risks.

Please stop the construction of this coal seam gas mine in Narrabri. There are many alternatives for energy production that do not cause mass destruction of the native land. Solar and wind power offer clean alternatives and would also provide jobs to the local community. Large corporations need to change their practices to match the desires of the communities they seek to conduct their business in. I hope that they have a conscience and will work towards a cleaner, greener future for the benefit of everyone.

I strongly object to the Narrabri gas project and ask the local council to reject it for the following reasons:

1. It will extract over 35 billion litres of toxic groundwater, much of it in the first five years. This water will be treated and in the early years will generate tens of thousands of tonnes of salt, for which there is no safe disposal plan.
2. It will clear close to 1,000 hectares of the Pilliga Forest, fragmenting the largest temperate woodland in New South Wales, home to unique wildlife.
3. It will cause significant diversion of water from a recharge aquifer of the Great Artesian Basin, which is a water resource relied upon by rural communities across western NSW.
4. It will lead to large deliberate and fugitive emissions of methane, adding to climate change.
5. It will cause more trauma to the regional Aboriginal community because the area of impact is crucially important to the spiritual, cultural and social life of Gamilaraay people.
6. It is not justified: SantosÂ' own Coal Seam Gas export activities in Queensland have caused gas prices to rise and supply to become unpredictable. NSW should respond to this by investing in more reliable and ultimately cheaper renewable energy, not by letting Santos inflict more environmental, social and economic harm.
7. It will cause economic upheaval in Narrabri and put agricultural industries at risk, as well as causing light pollution that will ruin the dark night sky needed by the internationally renowned Siding Spring Observatory.
8. Coal Seam Gas is harmful to health. Neither the NSW Government nor Santos have investigated or dealt with the serious health effects of coal seam gas now appearing in peer-reviewed research in the United States.

As an active member of a wildlife group I am concerned for the future of the many already threatened species whose habitat will be threatened by the Santos development in the Pilinga. Landclearing through logging and urban housing development have already had a massive impacted on the survival of many of our unique fauna and now those species that call the Pilinga home, the Koala, Spotted-tailed Quoll, Black-striped Wallaby, Eastern Pygmy-possum, Pilliga Mouse, South-eastern Long-eared Bat and over 200 bird species will be at risk should the Santos gasfield get the go ahead.

This unique area is rich in biodiversity and as a source for recharging the Great Artesian Basin. Drilling 850 wells for the purpose of extracting coal seam gas will seriously compromise this. Also we have entered a critical phase in global warming if we wish to arrest and possibly reverse a rise of 2 degrees C or more before 2030. CSG extraction will release methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. I urge a more thorough scientific study of the environmental impact of such extraction before this project is approved.

I object to the Narrabri Gas Project. Stop ruining the land and water.

So wrong.

Dear sirs/Madam,

I object to mining for CSG in the Pilliga because:-

1. It will cause irreversible Climate Change due to:
emitting methane into the atmosphere from fugitive leaks.

2. It will damage the aquifers which in the driest continent in the world is not a good idea. It will damage agricultural land.

3. It will destroy about 1000 hectares of trees which absorb CO2 and also hold down the saline level of water in the ground.

4. WE DO NOT NEED THIS GAS, we have the best amount of sun IN THE WORLD in this country and enough wind to make CLEAN ENERGY. Without destroying the planet.

Any one of these reasons is enough to make the project unacceptable. There many more reasons, but I won't go on.

MINING CSG IN THE PILLIGA MUST NOT HAPPEN.

DO NOT DESTROY THE PLANET.

I HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING TO DESTROY THE PLANET IF THIS MINING FOR CSG IS ALLOWED.

Thank you for reading this,
Regards,
Felicity Davis.

It will extract over 35 billion litres of toxic groundwater, much of it in the first five years. This water will be treated and in the early years will generate tens of thousands of tonnes of salt, for which there is no safe disposal plan.
It will clear close to 1,000 hectares of the Pilliga Forest, fragmenting the largest temperate woodland in New South Wales, home to unique wildlife.
It will cause significant diversion of water from a recharge aquifer of the Great Artesian Basin, which is a water resource relied upon by rural communities across western NSW.
It will lead to large deliberate and fugitive emissions of methane, adding to climate change.
It will cause more trauma to the regional Aboriginal community because the area of impact is crucially important to the spiritual, cultural and social life of Gamilaraay people.
It is not justified: Santos' own Coal Seam Gas export activities in Queensland have caused gas prices to rise and supply to become unpredictable. NSW should respond to this by investing in more reliable and ultimately cheaper renewable energy, not by letting Santos inflict more environmental, social and economic harm.
It will cause economic upheaval in Narrabri and put agricultural industries at risk, as well as causing light pollution that will ruin the dark night sky needed by the internationally renowned Siding Spring Observatory.
Coal Seam Gas is harmful to health. Neither the NSW Government nor Santos have investigated or dealt with the serious health effects of coal seam gas now appearing in peer-reviewed research in the United States.

Stop the Narrabri gas project as the damage by this industry is well documented to be unsustainable to the environment. The assurances given by the industry are just lip service.

CSG, has not been proven to environmentally or personally safe. I object to Santos forcing themselves into a community that have a an unalienable right to the land they live on. Who's right to the land exceeds Santos by millienia,

I am now 80 years old and I grew up in Armidale and The Pilliga was always this magical place to which I wanted to go. At school we were told to revere the artisian basin and all that wonderful underground water. Instead of mining our wonderful country, whether for gas or coal, and doing damage to our wonderful natural assets why not put your money into solar or wind farms. Leave the Pilliga alone as it is special and precious. Is there another forest like it anywhere in the world? Protect it don't destroy it.

Coal seam gas will destroy this area, please stop this.

Please dont ruin our country for things we can do without this is not our right its our duty to care for our country and its native peoples rights