Narrabri Gas

The Narrabri Gas Project has too high a risk for contaminating the waters around it. In a country where water is a highly sought after and dwindling resource we cannot risk even one drop being lost, let alone affecting large quantities like those sources from the Murray Darling Basin. The company has a history of spills. There just aren't enough safeguards available with today's technology.

The Gamilaraay Traditional Custodians are opposed.
Have we not trampled on and stolen enough from this countries first people?

" 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. The forest is home to over 200 bird species and is internationally recognised as an Important Bird Area². The Santos gasfield would fragment 95,000 hectares of the Pilliga with well pads, roads, and water and gas pipelines--damaging vital habitat and threatening the survival of endangered species. "

^^^^ THIS! Australia has lost and is continuing to lose native species at a rate unparalleled anywhere in the world. We must protect those that remain.

Destruction of so many precious resources for another finite resource, namely natural gas, is unacceptable. There can be no exceptions.

I believe that fracking in Australia not only will the process use too much water in what is an arid country but will also risk groundwater contamination.

There is more long term economic benefit from other industries such as ecotourism. You can not justify the negative impact fracking wells can have on biodiversity in that area or risk damaging the ecosystem.

As a country we need to be smarter than fracking and move away from fossil fuels in to more sustainable practices.

I strongly object to the plans released by Santos to drill 850 coal seam gas wells right through the heart of the Pilliga forest and through the Great Artesian Basin. If these plans were to go ahead, they would cause devastating ecological damage to a beautiful part of our country. I urge all members who are able to vote on these plans on my behalf and the behalf of the future generations of Australia to say "no" to what is a plan of greed with the end goal of destroying part of what makes Australia beautiful.

Please don't let this happen.

Kind regards,
Patrick Calvett

I object to this project.
Coal seam gas exploration and collection is always detrimental to the the local and wider environment.
This particular project will ruin a lovely and important natural area which should be saved. Not only will animals and plants suffer but people will suffer, too.
We all need unadulterated green areas for our current and ongoing health, both physical and mental.
It is up to us to provide for ourselves and future generations in such a way that we go from strength to strength. Coal seam gas only benefits a tiny few and harms the vast majority now and into the future.
The most damning part of it is there are many cheaper, more effective methods of creating energy without having to resort to ignorant and stupid methods. Just because gas has been used before, and just because there is still gas in the ground, it doesn't mean we need to continue mining it until every last bit is gone, or at all.
Be smart and stop now. Invest in the smart choices. The future is now. Use solar and use wind. Use your powers for good, not evil.
Stop all coal seam gas operations now and ban all new ones.
I object to this project now and always and in all places.

It's very disappointing that a government who we elected and trusted to be carers of our great land. This coal seam mining will literally break and poison our land. It is ruining our agricultural industries time and time again! When will our government listen to the people who elected them? These mining moguls will ruin our land for future generations. Doesn't the government understand what they're allowing to happen? The people just don't want this type of industry risking the health of our land and water! Save our Australia!

When my children wer young we visited the Pilliga as part of an educational tour of NSW. It was a beautiful area then. today it is threatened by the proposal by Santos to drill there through to the artesian basin. no one knows whatwill happen if tis happens and it is dangerous to learn too late that it has damaged the source of water. australia has too little reserves of water to have any dmaged for the profit of a minority who gain their wealth through environmental damage with no regard for the future. Please refuse this appliction by Santos and any future drilling in the Pilliga or other areas of similar worth.

Protect everything we still have.

Gas seam fraking is of the pilliga region or anywhere in australia should be banned. The irriversible destruction of areas caused by this mining method is not worth all the money in the world.

Please DO NOT allow Santos to estabish ANY CSG
production in the Pilliga region!!

STOP this Mr Turnbull and DO something good and meaningfull
for our country!

Humans have a responsibility to balance economic and social advantage and gain against environmental considerations. Once disturbed, the natural environment is changed forever. Is the government satisfied that interfering with the Pilliga region in this way reflects the best plan for its future? Is this truly the best way to invest into the future of this region?

Dear santos administrator
I ask you to please look at this beautiful region. Not with greed in your heart but close your eyes and breath in the clean air and listen to the sounds around you. Look into the eyes of children and ask yourself how will I explain to them why they can't swim in the rivers or drink the water? Please consider this. Please consider putting your resources into renewable energy. Please do this for our future.

I believe this is purely detrimental to the environment and the place we call home. There is no need to do this there has always been a better alternative to produce a useful energy source without destroying the environment and the wildlife with in it.

Ridiculous to allow CSG in the Philliga.

I am expressing my opposition to the proposed Narrabri Gas Project. The Narrabri Gas Project risks water sources; the traditional owners of the land are opposed farmers and other local community reject the project; the Narrabri Gas Project (Santos) has a long history of spills and leaks of toxic CSG water; The Pilliga is a haven for threatened wildlife; and Coal seam gas fuels dangerous climate change

I opose any drilling/ mining exploration and planning on part of the coal seam gas companies including Santos in the ancient Piliga Region of Australia. This is sacred land, the last piece of our culture and history, drilling for gas will destroy our legacy of the natural world and animals for future generations. Coal seam gas methods have been proven to leak and destroy air and water and environments in the areas it is in use. I believe our governments should use their common sense and science to withhold any further exploration within the Piliga and the surrounds. I'm proud to be Australian, but part of an Australia that gives a damn on how we treat each other as individuals and the land we were born to. CSG is disrespectful and damaging.

No CSG.
For our future, our children's future and the future of the planet.

Please re-consider the wishes of the community and people. Environments like this have been developing for longer than any of us can imagine. Once it is tarnished, destroyed, or gone, it will never be the same. It will never be restored to its former state.
Please put the environment first.

There are many reasons to object to this project from the possible harmful effects of local water courses to the large scale objection by local communities. I think the negative light this shines on those decision makers in the ACT should also be considered. Australia relies heavily on tourism and not only will this destroy much our the beautiful country people come to visit, this will project shows how little regard for the environment our government has.

I am writing to oppose this environmentally devastating project.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

Creeks in the Pilliga run into the Namoi River--a part of the Murray Darling Basin. This system is vulnerable to contamination from drilling fluid spills and the salty treated water produced from the proposed 850 wells.

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.
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. This industry would leave a toxic legacy in NSW.

Further the risk of fires would increase throughout the Pilliga's tinder-box conditions.

The Gamilaraay Traditional Custodians are opposed to this project as are local farmers and the local community in general.

There are so many reasons to not allow this project to go ahead. The potential risks are simply too great.

I migrated to this great country with my young family in the early '80s to give my children, 5, and grandchildren to come a better future and to grow up in this beautiful natural environment, that Australia has to offer.
It is heartbreaking to see, how ill guided, greed and short term profit driven politicians and governments allow fossil fuel companies to rape, plunder and poison our unique and wonderful natural environment for the sake of propping up the dying fossil fuel industry in the name of securing an energy future for Australia, that will be far better secured economically, environmentally and socially responsibly by clean renewable energy industries rather than dirty fossil fuel industries like coal and gas.
The Narrabri Gas Field Project of up to 850 gas wells over the next 20 years is proposed in a pristine natural environment, that constitutes the largest artesian basin and clean fresh water reservoir in this country. Allowing fossil fuel industry to start destroying and poisoning this magnificent natural environment and this water resource would be not only environmentally irresponsible, it is socially unjustifiable and outright criminal.