Narrabri Gas

Submission sent: "I call on the government and regulatory authorities to call a halt to barely regulated major push to fill the Pilliga Forest with CSG wells.

This is wanton destruction of good land and ecosystems for excess gas we do not need. We already have sufficient gas production to supply domestic needs were it not for the current legislation that allows the industry to monopolise our national resources. As a result we pay far more for gas than our customers overseas, and governments here are claiming there's a dangerous shortage. This is a falsehood.

The 'gold rush' of CSG extraction must end. It is theft from our nation, intergenerational theft from our children and grandchildren, pollutes the land and waterways, and pumps the dangerous Greenhouse gasses CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. The extraction companies will never pay the true costs of these externalities, but we and future generations will.

The approval for the Pilliga wells is for the benefit of the corporate sector for which politicians will receive donations and the rest of us will pay.

Do not allow this project to go ahead."

I am passionate about growing our community & expanding not only employment opportunities, but also lifestyle opportunities, now and into the future, to see our region prosper.

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.

This projects should not go ahead. The science is clear that gas extraction severely damages the water and the land forever

I would like to see increased opportunities for our community

I support the Narrabri Gas Project because I would like to see more jobs created for the area.

We are short gas supplies in this country. We need this gas

I am appalled that the NSW government is considering approval of this project. The Pilliga is the last intact temperate eucalypt woodland in eastern Australia. It is home to a number of endangered species including barking owls, regent honeyeaters, koalas, eastern pygmy possums and glossy black cockatoos.

Coal seam gas may seem to take up very little land but the disruption to the landscape, the movement of vehicles, and the noise are all stressors on species already under pressure. The government has said it supports a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and urgent action on climate climate change, yet pollution from fugitive methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas and, indeed the flaring of methane to create more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, from 850 wells, would indicate that the government is paying lip service to greenhouse gas reduction. Action on climate change is urgent. Gases stay in the atmosphere between ten and 50 years or more. Stopping emissions must happen now and complacency must end.

I ask that the wishes of the local community be given priority over the short term profits of a multinational company. The gas in the ground belongs to all Australians and not to a mining company. Certainly the local community doesn't want this project to go ahead and their precious woodland to be scarred with this unnecessary and destructive proposal.

There is also a threat to the groundwater in the Artesian Basin which is fed by water from the Pilliga. The likelihood of contamination is high.

We should not be the generation that continues with these disastrous fossil fuel grabs when we know that our natural environment is precious and the any short-term economic benefits will be vastly outweighed by the cost of losing what is left and by climate change, which will affect everyone.

I submit my comments for your consideration

The Narrabri Gas Project will help increase jobs and growth for our region. Our state needs more gas

I support the Narrabri Gas Project because it will be excellent for Narrabri's economy.

The Narrabri Gas Project will help with the growth of our town with jobs and work for local contractors like ourselves.

I support Santos and the Narrabri Gas Project.
I am a Narrabri local who was born and raised in this town. I am now a mother myself, and I want to see Narrabri move forward and prosper. With the development of the Narrabri Gas Project, there will be increased employment opportunities and the local economy will strengthen.
I am eager to see Narrabri develop and believe that the development of the project will open the door to other industries as well.

I have studied University level Chemistry and Physics. The proposal to drill through the artisian basin in the middle of a forest is crazy. The next world war will be about food and water. You are shooting Australia in the foot if you allow this drilling to go ahead, and probably killing all our grandchildren.

I support the development of Santos' Narrabri Gas Project. I trust the science behind the project and know that it can be achieved with minimal impact on the environment.
I also support it because any industry that employs local people and contractors needs to be supported.
Santos has already had a positive impact on our local economy.

I think we need to think about gas and renewables. Not one or the other. Gas to back up solar would make our town quite remarkable.
We need to think long term - we should ensure that the town is better off for having gas after they have gone.

I support the Narrabri Gas Project for the following reasons

- Utilising natural resources
- Keeps people in the town
- Provides employment and in turn provides good economic growth in our area

Dear Sir,
Please do not approve the Narrabri Coal Seam gas project.
Koala habitat is in grave danger and this project will destroy Koala habitat.

We do not need more coal seem gas when we have solar and wind power.
I am alarmed for our water supply and the destructiveness of the coal seem gas industry, which will destroy the environment.

We only have one earth and we must not destroy it for a few jobs and greed by mining companies who rarely pay tax.

i say no to csg well in the pilliga or anywhere else in australia

The Pilliga Scrub is an underutilised resource, it is not pristine, about 90% has been disturbed, and the small area to be utilised in this project make it ideal for the job. It is notable that the concessions made to allow the project to proceed in the first place by the very Governments and Party which you might expect would oppose any such development seem to have been conveniently forgotten.

In the big picture, it is notable that the USA - the most regulated country in the world - has a similar but much dirtier industry as one of the essential pillars of its economic recovery which is dependent on cheap and clean energy.

My major fear for this development is that it could be shelved for reasons which have no relationship to the science behind it - ie lack of Political Will in the face of organised unrest, scaremongering, misleading and deliberately false information, deliberate obstruction and delaying tactics even if illegal. I spent a long time working in another industry where significant change took place and am all too aware that the industry has to carry the expense for and respond to every issue raised, whether valid, mischievous or totally spurious, while it seems activists have a carte blanch to say or do virtually what they like.

It would seem that the sort of unruly and organised opposition being experienced here is anything but a new idea - Edmund Burke (England 1729-1797) is quoted as saying 'It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.' How prophetic for the current situation with CSG in the Pilliga!!

Please register my submission as being a big Yes to the Narrabri Gas Project proceeding with all the normal controls in place.

Yours Sincerely,
David Streeter

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.