Narrabri Gas

I support the Narrabri Gas Project as it provides opportunities for businesses in Narrabri and surrounding areas and I believe this can be done without harming our prime agricultural land.

The benefit of having regional employment opportunities will support the entire region.
NSW having its own gas supply will reduce prices for households and businesses outside our region.

Wee Waa needs the people and the money. Gas causes no harm to farms or environment. FULLY SUPPORT!

I wish to voice my objection to the proposed CSG project, as it
would destroy valuable farmland and almost 1000ha of the Pilliga Forest could be cleared.
It further would impact on our water resources by extracting over 35 billion litres of water and polluting a large amount of this water with salt and heavy metals and also puncture recharge aquifers of the Great Artesian Basin.
It facilitates continuing and increased green house gas pollution of our atmosphere or with other words it will increase global warming.
As a medical practitioner, my concerns focus and human health, and global warming has been declared the greatest health problem of this century. Efforts to mitigate climate change are urgently needed not acceleration of this problem.
I DO NOT want this proposal approved.
I DO WANT the department of Planning and Environment and the NSW Coalition Government to LISTEN to the people of NSW instead of forcing environmentally and socially destructive legislation and projects through our bureaucracies and Parliament.

The town needs the prosperity. There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to utilise the gas in the Pilliga, as the scrub is not servicing any other purpose. It causes no harm and the backlash is unfounded and ignorant. FULLY SUPPORT

We have been on a tour of the project area and saw first-hand the Santos operations. We are very impressed and we are in full support! There will be many jobs generated and it will be great for Narrabri

The possibility that these gas fields would be allowed to go ahead knowing that major countries around the world have their own supply or access to a cheap supply of gas already, the cost of extracting, processing and shipping of the gas keeping in mind the extended distances the gas would have to travel to reach its market, the instability of the major economies and the extremely high potential for unrecoverable environmental damage which would have an effect on the pristine environment, our ability to produce clean food and in a number of instances access to water for the surrounding populations livestock native animals and farm irrigation not withstanding their free access to water, which our own farmers pay hundreds of thousands of dolllars to use and their lack of protocols for safety and disposal of contaminants there is no oversight to make sure these things are carried out
In short they pay the minimum for access
Have complete control
Carry harvesting with complete impunity
And keep the profits
To hell they will

Your mandate is to ensure the fracking process is never used not now or in the future - this is your country as well as ours STAND UP AND PROTECT IT!

Voting australian
Henriette Hurley
For and on behalf of my extended family

I support Santos and their project for 850 csg wells. I believe it will benefit the Narrabri Shire as well as the state.
I travel to surrounding towns quite a lot. I can not understand why some of these Shires choose to be "CSG FREE" and not diversify, when I see that they are financially struggling due to its reliance on a sole industry.
Narrabri diversifying means we will be an economically strong Shire which will promote other industries to come as well.

I welcome Santos onto my farm to support NSW gas supply industry.

I have personal experience of the Pilliga forests, having lived nearby, worked and camped extensively in the area.

Ecological Values Degraded.
During the several decades , I have observed substantial degradation of the natural environment due to the 'exploratory' work already conducted. This work has caused disturbance and fragmentation to the natural environment, the continuous discharge of waters into the ephemeral Bibblewindi Creek has enabled the spread of weeds along the edges of the watercourse, and into the surrounding forests. These effects will irreversibly degrade the environmental qualities of the Pilliga.

Methane Leakage Not Quantified.
In spite of the long period of exploration, no comprehensive survey of the background levels of Methane leakage have been conducted. In consequence of this failure, there is no baseline to compare post-development levels, so no objective assessment of the climate change, or other consequences, of the inevitably increased leakage will be available. This in spite of well-known technology used elsewhere to conduct such baseline surveys (e.g: Picarro CRDS)

Deleterious Effects on Groundwater already occurred.
A nearby landholder, near the eastern boundary of the development area, personally known to me and well known to the proponent, has relied for decades on potable water from a bore on his property. Following the exploratory activities, minor in scale compared to the proposed works, this bore became foul, smelling of gas and sulphides, was rejected by his cattle, and the proponent Santos has trucked water to this property since. No formal recognition, nor arrangement for permanent relief has been made by the proponent. The fact of this contradicts the assurances by the proponent that negative effects are very unlikely.

The very large quantities of water required to be extracted, to cause the methane to be released from the coal matrix, will inevitably cause negative effects on those reliant,.

The quality of the contaminated water returned to the environment (Bibblewindi Creek) during the exploratory phase was ameliorated by reverse osmosis treatment. This was relatively expensive, and it is not clear from the proposal that the proponent will be required to continue this level of treatment for the duration of the project.

The concentrated brine generated by the reverse osmosis process has already caused pollution incidents, even at the small scale of the exporation. Management of the vastly greater quantities of brine to be generated by this proposal will be many fold more likely to result in pollution incidents.

For the above reasons, I am firmly opposed to the project receiving approval.

Regards

Gregory T. Hall
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On behalf of my family we are a agricultural based private company that has been operating in the Coonamble area for nearly 100 years. We produce beef lamb and crops for consumption in Australia and Internationally. Our livelihood is the land and the water and the Great Artesian Basin located below our soil is a lifeline for our livestock, crops and for humans like ourselves to exist.
The Great Artesian Basin stretches over much of eastern Australia. CSG drilling practices that invade the aquifers will for ever damage the Great Artesian Basin. Evidence of gas extraction in America shows whole towns have been deserted and have now become ghost towns due to the contamination of the water through CSG mining not to mention sickness and land devaluation. The government needs to look at the big picture and to future generations rather than the present. Ultimately rural inland Australia will become no productive and in hospitable if this CSG project goes ahead. The economic impact and other fall outs is unfathomable.
Please do not give the go ahead to this project look to the future and what damage it will do to the environment living standards and the economy. The Great Artesian Basin is our life line and future.

I SUPPORT THE NARRABRI GAS PROJECT BECUASE IT IS GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY AND JOBS/EMPLOYMENT. I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO TAKE A TOUR AND ACTUALLY SEE THE TRUTH OF WHAT IS INVOLVED INSTEAD OF RELYING ON THE MISTRUTHS AND SCAREMONGERING OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN. I LIVE NEAR THE PROJECT AND CAN SEE FIRST HAND HOW IT DOES NOT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT.

I personally think that it is the right way to go to help the community move forward

I support the Narrabri Gas Project for the following reasons:

- Local employment
- Supply of gas for Sydney and Newcastle
- Diversity in the industries for Narrabri
- Will bring more people to Narrabri
- Santos supports local organisations
- Long term development in the area

I think the Narrabri Gas Project will have a positive impact on our community, in the way of
- Community Benefit Fund which can go towards socially or medically developing the area (eg medical equipment, money towards our sporting fields, projects for our youth)
- Employment Opportunities
- Economic strengthening of our community

Santos causes no problems and it will help retain the youth in Narrabri

Leave it in the ground, we don't need it and we don't want it!

The Government has a responsibility to ensure the safety and security of its people, flora and fauna. This action goes against that. Investment should be made in safe and sustainable solutions such as renewable energy.

Protect what's left and repair the damage already done.

Stop the destruction and corruption.

The Narrabri Gas project is good for Narrabri. It created jobs and brings people to the town. Santos supports local activities and sporting events. Santos cares about local landholders and what they think

Narrabri Gas Project.
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. All the wildlife will die.
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.

Santos will bring local jobs and investment. I don't believe that we should rely on one industry (agriculture), especially if we want to move forward as a community. I don't agree with some farmers being biased towards one industry.