Dear NSW Government,

I am writing to register my concern and opposition to this project.

The impacts on ground water as well as the volume of wastewater created are unacceptable in my view.

We want to have a prosperous and competitive state, but projects such as this have time and again shown lasting and detrimental consequences to local people and place.

Thanks for your time,

Please do not allow this environmental disaster to occur.
CSG should stay in the graound. The proof of it's detriment is already there.

CSG has been proven to be extremely unpopular with local communities. It is important that the government respects this and does not railroad through communities and the environment. This project would extract over 35 billion litres of toxic groundwater and drill right through the recharge area of the Great Artesian Basin. It would generate tens of thousands of tonnes of salt waste for which Santos has still not offered any waste disposal plans. This gasfield would fragment over 90,000 hectares of the the Pilliga forest, industrialising the largest temperate woodland in eastern Australia. Australia is differentiated globally because of its nature. If Australia develops mining, it jeopardises tourism, its own society and its global reputation.

We must protect the Pilliga forest. I am completely against Santos' Narrabri Gas Project.

Honestly , please leave this small remaining significant area of Pillaga scrub for future generations to enjoy
Why on earth we would risk our greatest asset IMHO (the Great Artesian Basin) is beyond
Tell Santos to go away the thieving mongrels

The risks associated with these proposals cannot be sufficiently quantified let alone ameliorated. Concentrate on making renewable energy work, not destroying the environment in unknowable ways.

The Pilliga coal seam gas project is a disaster for our climate, local bushland and wildlife and for the Traditional Owners and farmers who call the region home.

Some more detailed reasons:
1. It is safe 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.

2. Coal seam gas fuels dangerous climate change
Methane is by far the major component of natural gas, and is a greenhouse gas 72 times more powerful than CO². CSG fields contribute to climate change through the leakage of methane during the production, transport, processing and use of coal seam gas. recent IR filming has shown the vast amounts of methane released in and around gas fields. Just because we cannot see it with the naked eye does not mean it's not escaping into the atmosphere and having adverse effects globally as well as locally (poisoning water and making air unsafe to breathe.)

3. It risks our clean water
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.

4. The Gamilaraay Traditional Custodians are opposed
There are hundreds of cultural sites as well as songlines and stories connecting the Gamilaraay to the forest and to the groundwater beneath. Gamilaraay people are deeply involved in the battle against CSG, and have told Santos they do not want their country sacrificed for a coal seam gas field.

5. Bushfire risk will rise
Methane flare stacks up to 50m high would be running day and night, even on total fire ban days. The Pilliga is already prone to severe bushfires, this project will increase the risk of ignition.

Please do not rape this beautiful region of nature and natural significance to all Australians.
Please put your energies into finding far better ways of producing energy. Gas drilling has been proven over and over to be a disaster for any area that it has been allowed into.
When will these big companies and our government realise money is far better being spent in finding sustainable energy sources and to get away from using fossil fuels. Please listen to the Australian people we do not want this.

Surely we cannot risk the long term future of the Great Artisan Basin for short term gain of gas supply which will most likely be exported overseas - no real gain for Australia and a big risk of damaging the priceless water supply from the Artisan basin.
Stop the drilling!!

I am writing to oppose the proposed Santos' Narrabri Gas Project.
I have read that this project would extract over 35 billion litres of toxic groundwater and drill right through the recharge area of the Great Artesian Basin. This would generate thousands of tonnes of salt waste. It is my understanding that Santos has still not offered any waste disposal plans! This is completely unacceptable.
This gasfield would fragment over 90,000 hectares of the Pilliga forest, industrialising the largest temperate woodland in eastern Australia.
I believe that this project is not in the best interest of the local community of the Pilliga or the environment.
i strongly object to this project. Please do not allow this project to go ahead.