Narrabri Gas

The people of Australia object this proposal.

This must not happen!!
The quality of water will be toxic for local farmers and the community there!

We need to keep this beautiful place untouched by man for future generations to visit the flora and fauna that florishes here.

This is a really apaulling proposal! The last of the great wilderness areas myst be preserved. We need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and luve within the means of our one and only planet. We don't have the right to rob other species of their existance.

Enough is enough. No more

I do not support the idea of drilling for underground gas in the State of N.S.W.
The current government is boasting a surplus in its budgetting, and I therefore do not believe it can argue the need to gain extra revenue from granting licences for coal and gas exploration and extraction.
The agricultural community in the Narrabri Shire are clearly presenting their opposition to the arrival of Santos so as the Government that represents the people, wake up and listen to them !!

CSG projects do not receive the support of the general community, with most people either having no opinion or being absolutely opposed. Supporters of CSG are generally financially involved. As such, new projects should be rejected on the basis that the public do not accept the promoted "benefits" of CSG. The fact that the subject area is a sensitive region simply furthers reason to reject the proposal.

Enough!

You can't keep taking from the planet, you need to put back.

I strongly object to this proposed project and others like it. The environmental impact appears to be understated - impact to the
water as a result, waste salt residue and impact to local wildlife and farmers appears to be considerable. I do not believe the Traditional Owners of this land are in support of this proposal.
The climate change implications of this gas extraction process cannot be ignored. This flies in direct contrast to what 'energy companies' like Santos need to understand that Energy has more than 1 source. Perhaps they could consider transitioning their business to renewable energy. Wow, what a crazy thought.
Please protect our environment; we've only got 1 (as opposed to energy sources, where we've got options).

What a joke. Can't wait until voting time again

We need to protect most precious simple things like water and air.
Why can we support to distroy own health with gas!!
No fracking way!!!!

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to voice my strong opinion against the proposed Narrabri Gas Project by the energy giant Santos in the Pilliga region. Australia, along with the rest of the world has a responsibility. A responsibility to ensure beautiful regions such as the Pilliga stay protected and full of biodiversity for future generations. A responsibility to meet our current climate change targets proposed at the Paris G20 Summit. A responsibility to come up with new ways of producing energy that does not severely impact our planet and can service future generations. A responsibility not to potentially contaminate precious underground drinking water that will become an ever increasing vital commodity in future years. A responsibility not to be tempted by short-term solutions to problems at the cost of significant long term loss and damage.

If the proposed Narrabri Gas Project can fulfill even half of the above points then it hs in the best interests of NSW and indeed Australia. If it does not, then we need to look elsewhere for the energy solution.

Coal Seam Gas wells are a devestating form of raping the earth, they have been proved to do untold harm to the land, the lively hood of the people and the entire environment and ecological system of that area. Should Santo tap into the Artisian Basin it will have severe efforts on this pristine water source and as "water is life" life as the people of the Pilliga know it will cease.
We should be using renewable energy sources rather than Coal and the Government should stop this insane proposal by Santos immediately.

experience overseas (especially in the US) and here (such as in Qld) shows the destructive impact on 'unconventional gas mining' both on the environment and on health.
We do not have a gas shortage - most of the gas to be obtained in fact is contracted to overseas. I believe that this was part of the conditions for the building of the port facilities at the bottom of the Barrier Reef which in themselves are environmentally destructive. To me, our government is in thrall to the multi national conglomerates and definitely think short term, not long term national interests. As was famously quoted a few decades ago, Australia will be the poor white trash of Asia. Add to that it will be a mere quarry for the rest of the world and Lee was on the right track!!

I would like to see the NSW government stand up for the community it serves and block the proposal for 850 coal seam gas wells to be placed in the Pilliga Forest. Not only does this proposal pose a direct threat to the community by destroying natural habitats and forests, it poses a long term danger with the pollution and contamination that coal seam gas mining produces, has a detrimental impact on surrounding water tables, thereby endangering the community at large.

Tasmania and Victoria currently have a moratorium on fracking in their states of 5 years to allow time for the science to fully comprehend the effects of coal seam gas. Whilst such a divide exists in the science (and in public opinion) on the benefits and costs of coal seam gas, it is my submission that it would be imprudent and potentially very damaging to proceed with coal seam gas mining at this stage.

I object to this Narribri Gas Project because:
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.

CSG mining in the Pilliga is nether needed nor advisable. There is NO shortage of gas in Australia evidenced by our large scale export industry. What might be in short supply is viable agricultural land which CSG mining threatens. Santos' EPA report is exactly what they paid for and thus untrustworthy. Approval under these circumstances would be deriliction of duty.

Most of Australia's water is in Groundwater (aquifers) and the routes they travel and other waterways that they meet up with (both above and underground) are not yet thoroughly understood.
ANY industry that has the potential to impact on ANY of our groundwater has the potential to affect the whole continent, not just a localised area.
Australia needs it's agriculture and it's natural biodiversity for our survival.
Do not do anything that can impact on our groundwater. EVER.
This is our future, and our grandchildren's future that you are messing with.

Short-term gain must be balanced against long-term loss. Also, who is to gain and who will lose? Santos will profit from the gas produced but the environment and all who live in the Pilliga now and in the future plus all who want to visit and enjoy the area will be the poorer. The vast majority of Australians, especially those who live locally to the forest, do not want this drilling of wells to occur. It will damage a pristine environment, introducing weed seeds on the tyres of exploration vehicles, involving clearing of native forest and segmenting the environment for introduction of pests and segregation of natural populations of fauna and flora.

The loss is too great to justify the profit, most of which will probably go to non-Australian shareholders and employees. It will also damage the integrity of the fossil water in the Great Artesian Basin and it is very likely that the aquifer will be contaminated by the drilling. The vast amount of water used for the drilling will not be cleaned and returned to the basin in an appropriate way but will cause toxicity and poison surface watercourses. Santos will not have to pay for this water or even account for it, which I find amazing, that gas producers have carte blanche to use water the rest of the community must pay for - and therefore they are profligate with it. Clean water in Australia is a precious resource without which we will all die quickly. Gas on the other hand is not essential to life and renewable energy is a cheap clean alternative that should be encouraged rather than allow drilling for gas which is a very damaging and polluting activity that will destroy much of the Pillaga environment for years to come.