Narrabri Gas

CSG is just too risky in my opinion; especially risk to the water table. Once polluted, it can never be unpolluted. Please please reject the Santos proposal. Our children and children's children will thank you.

I am totally apposed to this project..

they dump radioactive material, into the great basin, this must be stopped at all costs, nothing short is criminal negligence, and a crime against humanity and the Australian ppl

We have enough evidences now to know the damage that fracking does to the water supply and to the eco system. I believe that this project will unnecessarily put people's health at risk for an unsustainable but lucrative business that will only benefit a few. It would be a crime. I firmly stand against the extraction of gas in the Pilliga area.

Please don't allow CSG mining to occur in any Australian wilderness area. When are we as a nation going to make a serious considered push to remove from power the fossil fuel advocates and spend our taxes on developing renewables. It will provide power to the nation and jobs.

I object to the area of the Pilliga Forest being mined in any way. These areas need to be protected from exploitation by large corporations for their own benefit.

Please stop abusing our beautiful country,the damage is far outweighing the returns and the returns ( money ) is going overseas anyway .

I wish to voice my objection to the Narrabri Gas Project. I find it incomprehensible that plans to drill 850 coal seam gas wells right through the heart of the Pilliga forest and through the Great Artesian Basin are even being considered.

This has the potential for complete environmental devastation.

For the sake of present and future Australians I am opposed to the wholesale destruction of the Pilliga Region through CSG mining. Please leave the environment including our natural water systems intact for all creatures great and small. Enough corporate vandalism of our natural resources.

This Narrabri Gas Project is hazardous to invaluable water sources, including the Great Australian Basin, which is Australia's largest groundwater aquifer.
96% of the people in local communities, including hundreds of farmers, oppose this CSG project.
Santos has a bad history will leaks and spillages, so they cannot be trusted with this gas project.

Please do not agree to the Narrabri Gas Project (Santos) for the following reasons:
1. This project puts at risk two of our most precious water resources. that of the Great Artesian Basin and the Murray-Darling Basin. These risks relate to reduction in water pressure, preventing surface water flowing to springs and bores, across the whole Great Artesian Basin, plus the risk of contamination from drilling fluid spills and salty treated water, flowing into the Namoi River.
2. The Traditional custodians , the Gamilaraay, are opposed, with sites and traditions imbedded in their culture. They have told Santos they do not want their country sacrificed for a coal seam gas field.
3. Farmers and other local community reject the project. Surveys across 99 communities, across 3.2 million hectares of country, show an average 96% opposing this project.
4. Santos cannot be trusted to manage this project safely, with a long history of spills and leaks of toxic CSG water. They have shown little regard for dangerous human, animal and wider environmental consequences , with their past contamination of water and environment with high levels of uranium, lead, aluminium, arsenic and barium.
5. The Pilliga is one of the 15 nationally listed "biodiversity hotspots" and is vital to the survival of many threatened species. The proposed gasfield would damage vital habitat. We need to protect our wildlife.
6. Coal seam gas fuels dangerous climate change, with methane being the major component of natural gas, and is a greenhouse gas 72% more powerful than CO2. Methane is leaked during the production, transport, processing and use of coal seam gas. If we are to prevent a future environmental disaster we need to minimise how we contribute, by reducing greenhouse gases now.
7. Human health is compromised by the release of a range of hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds into the air from coal seam gas operations. Negative health effects have been documented in human populations nearby to exiting gas fields in Queensland, Sydney, and in America.
8. The Siding Springs Observatory, the nation's premier optical astronomical observatory, situated in the Warrumbungles and adjacent to the Pilliga, will have its viability threatened by the 50m high gas flares by Santos.
9.The Nation/State will be left with a toxic legacy of up to 42,000 tonnes of salt water waste which will be produced each year, for which Santos has no solution for disposal. The nation will be left with both the devastating environmental effects plus the bill for clean up .
10. The Pillar is prone to severe bush fires, with potentially devastating effects on the residents, both human and animal. The project, with 50m high methane flare stacks running day and night, increases this risk.

For all these reasons, please reject this development.

I strongly oppose ANY Coal Seam Gas wells in NSW or anywhere in Australia for that matter.
In a country blessed with more sun and natural resources it is madness to destroy our water table in the name of a quick profit selling our shoal gas overseas.
Please stop this lunacy now. For our children and their children.
Regards,
Susannah Handran-Smith

STUPID , STUPID CEO, AND THE BOARD TO EVEN CONSIDER THIS.
Don't you consider the health of your Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren more important than the profit of your Company and your overpriced salaries with no thought for Australias future as a country and then the world.
The Chinese are doing more than Australia per head of population in trying to reduce emissions.
I call on the share holders to bring pressure on the Board to stop this project, attack the share price, get out sell them off .
This type of product is on the decline with massive moves of toward sustainable energy, INVEST in this , the future not shares that are going backward , with Investment Bankers moving there money elsewhere.

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I strongly disagree with coal seam gas, and any further coal seam gas wells at all.

I object to risking contaminating precious groundwater supplies, threatening wildlife habitats and to disrespecting the wishes of the local indigenous caretakers of the land.

I feel that destroying the Pilliga region is short sighted.
Have we not seen what fracking does overseas? Pollution, its been also linked to earthquakes. It doesnt bring local employment they will be FIFO. The locals dont want it, how about respecting their wishes. I thought that was what politicians were suppose to do.
I am totally against fracking and will be fighting against it here in WA as well.
Time for the people to stand up.

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As a concerned citizen i wish to put forward an objection to plans for to CSG in the Pilliga...as i feel it is an environmental disaster waiting to happen. I do not trust claims of safety as human error is always a factor,and this area is too sensitive to risk. Water contamination is a very real risk, and i am opposed to anything which will impact on such a natural area and such an important water run off area. I do not trust ANY giant fossil fuel mining company, and i object because i feel local aboriginal land holders and farmers are united in opposing this risky venture.

Please have some restraint and don't be so greedy with out natural heritage. We have all seen the irreparable damage coal seam mining does, how can you sleep knowing what you are doing.

I am outraged by the choices in which our government has failed to act on. The choices that effect future generations, while in particular directly impacting various industries, specifically the agricultural industry in which relies on the Grest Artisian Basin for a water source. This also heavily impacts out changing climate and these actions made my coal companies and our government only further damage our environment through deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels.
As a high school student, I will be the one who faces the impacts of a neglegant government. As a prosperous and wealthy country, we should be leading the world in innovative ways to become environmentally friendly, not looking to simply benefit coal companies so our government can get a little bit more money annually.
I want our government to make the ethically correct decision into not supporting the proposed gas project, and look further into investing our money into energy that is renewable and environmentally friendly. It is time to start making crucial descions that ultimately will impact our earth in a greener light.