I stand against this project. Australia needs to stop all CSG projects and move to renewable energy to create a better world for future generations. We do not and should not be using gas. Find a new way! Save the Earth, stop climate change and stop destroying nature and her inhabitants!

Please, Hands off Australia's National Parks. Hands off our environment, our eco systems, our places of natural beauty. We have decimated this country enough. Time to stop and THINK. It is just plain crazy to use jobs and economy as an excuse to ruin forests that have been there a LONG time before we arrived in this amazing country.

I believe that the government is not acting in accordance to the will of the people who live in the Pillaga area. They do not 850 new gas wells in the Pillaga. Farmers are against. It risks agricultural land with pollution. Air, water and pollution of the underground aquifers. Namely the Great Artesian Basin. The question of what to do with salty brine

It has been proven that these gas projects damage the local environment and affect the health of animals and humans. As a proud Australian who loves this land I urge you to reconsider approving this unnecessary project.

The Narrabri Gas Project risks precious water sources, including the Great Australian Basin--Australia's largest groundwater aquifer

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.

This is madness!. The Pilliga, as we know it, is all that's left of a previously much more extensive forest and is vital to the people, plants and animals that live in western NSW. Don't let this short-term greed and death-by-a-thousand-cuts (sorry 850!) further compromise the Great Artesian Basin, the MDB, the health of the Pilliga or the livelihood of farmers.
And we need to be serious about climate change - no expansion of gas!
No, to Santos!

I am strongly opposed to approval of this project on the grounds of water security and Indigenous and local rights. I personally rely on the Great Artesian Basin as a primary water source for the livestock and vegetables on my property, and I am deeply concerned by the risks associated with CSG mining in the area with the highest recharge rates. This threatens the water security of the entire Basin. In addition, the considerations of the Gamilaraay people and local landowners are surely given some importance. Both groups have firmly stated strong opposition to the project. For these reasons I ask you to absolutely reject the proposal.

I am appalled to learn that Santos is proposing to drill 850 gas wells in the Pilliga Forest , the largest intact woodland area in Eastern Autralia, a much needed refuge for endangered species and an important water resource.
There are 25 critically endangered species on the Federal register and 48 species listed on the State register, all reliant onthe pilliga for protection from development such as the Santos proposal.
In addition the Pilliga provides water to recharge the Great Artesian Basin and the creeks hat flow through are critical for providing clean drinking water for farming communities in the area.
The 850 planned gas wells will devastate the area and if there is spillage as has happened when he last gas wells were permitted the area around the well remains toxic for years. Allowing this proposal would wreak havoc on the forest , consign its fauna to oblivion and endanger the water supply for countless communities.

An approval of this proposal would make a mockery of the government's stated aim to counteract the climate change and would exacerbate its effect

I fundamentally reject the bastardisation of Australia's wild places for the furtherance of international commercial interests.

Drilling for coal seam gas has a proven record of being dangerous to both local flora and fauna, and will have a negative impact on all local communities.

Stand up to big business and do the right thing by the environment, for once.

Given the enormity of this proposed project and scale of environmental destruction, I am requesting that an extension of time be granted so that the EIS can be given the attention it deserves.

Australia is already exporting large quantities of gas. I am totally opposed to destroying the Pilliga forest or any other part of Australia for gas production. The forest is reducing our green house gas emisions , coal seam gas will increase them.