This project has serious potential significant negative impacts for the environment and communities of today and for the future of the environment and the generations that will follow us, as it will open up the Pilliga for Santos' 850 well, Narrabri coal seam gas field.

This project will negatively impact the cultural heritage of the Gomeroi people. The cultural importance of the area's water resources, in particular Bohena Creek are at risk as planned pipeline drilling under it and across six other major water courses will disturb the alluvial groundwater. It is noted that the EIS does not discuss the cultural significance of the Bohena Creek to these traditional landowners. Further, the pipeline construction will destroy two known sites and damage another four sites. Spirituality, this will impact negatively on the wellbeing and cultural practice of the Gomeroi.

This project will negatively impact both farmland and natural forest. The pipeline will impinge upon 12 farms with one fifth of this being cropping land. The pipeline will also impinge the Pilliga Forest. Construction will clear 168ha. of the forest and will cut a 30-metre-wide corridor through the Pilliga East Forest, which will negatively impact the habitat of the microbat and other small native mammals. Further, this clearing will impinge upon the habitat and put at risk, threatened species as the Pilliga mouse, East Pygmy Possum and Corben's Long-Eared Bat.

It is noted that the Santos' Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the pipeline reasons economic benefits for both the Narrabri gas field and the Hunter Gas Pipeline but falls short on the responsibility for the potential negative impacts to biodiversity, water, climate and the communities affected.

The EIS must be amended to consider the full negative economic impacts of the greenhouse gas emissions from both the gas field and the two pipelines.

This impact is likely to be very significant given that Narrabri is predicted to be the sixth largest source of greenhouse pollution in NSW.

What now is decided for the present will determine what the generations will live with in the future that follow us.
We must hand them a good legacy so they can in turn do the same when their time comes!

I strongly suggest this proposal should be refused and re-assessed.

Construction of this pipeline would be the trigger that unleashes huge damage on the Pilliga Forest, the Great Atresian Basin, and the surrounding environment. The Environmemtal Impact Statement submitted by Santos makes no mention of the damage that would far outweigh the economic benefits gained. The clearing of 168 ha of Pilliga Forest would impact a large number of native species. The damage to the 12 farming properties crossed by the pipeline would be considerable. The Pilliga has deep spiritual, social and cultural significance for Gomeroi people. The National Native Title Tribunal acknowledged that all water resources, and Bohena Ck in particular, is of major cultural importance to Gomeroi people. The Tribunal said there should be no ground or surface disturbance within 500m of Bohena Ck without Gomeroi consent. Such concent has not been obtained. A new EIS must be prepared to consider the full negative impacts of the project.

We object to the Narrabri Lateral Pipeline. The negative impacts of this project, together with the inadequate understanding and assessment of cumulative impacts in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), are unacceptable.
This application seeks approval to blast and trench the pipeline through critically important creeks, forest, and productive farmland. Such actions will cause significant and unnecessary damage. The project threatens locally well-known Gomeroi cultural heritage, including the critically important Bohena Creek and the Pilliga Forest.
The pipeline will also impact numerous ephemeral waterways and habitats which, together with Bohena Creek, provide vital refuge for groundwater-dependent ecosystems, including highly vulnerable stygofauna. These ecosystems are already at risk and are not adequately assessed or protected in the EIS.
We are concerned that the application failures to consider the Stage 3 approved expansion of the Narrabri Underground Coal Mine, which represents a significant and unacceptable oversight.
The impacts of this gas pipeline on extensive forest land and biodiversity values, farmland and families, groundwater resources and ecosystems, and climate will affect both current and future generations. Planning authorities must properly consider the local impacts on agricultural land, communities, and water resources, as well as the broader climate consequences that will stem from this development.
This region is already heavily burdened by its contribution to harmful climate emissions through fossil fuel industrial developments. Approving this project would further entrench a culture of unnecessary environmental degradation and community harm at a time when gas access should be declining and any vital gas access could be achieved by a gas reservation policy. We therefore urge that this Assessment decision invoke the precautionary principle and rejected the Narrabri Lateral Pipeline to protect local communities, cultural heritage, and the environment from unnecessary destruction.

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There is simply no sense in approving this destructive project.
Santo is one of the most irresponsible mining companies in the world.
With over 20 waste water spills and 2 contaminated aquifers in NSW , coupled with a completely failed rehabilitation program.
They spilled obscene amounts of oil in WA killing dolphins and damaged coral reefs.
They then spilled 250000 liters of oil in QLD.
They have a gas tank leaking gas in the NT for over 20 years and said nothing and wont fix it.
Not to mention the Sidoarjo mudflow (or Lusi mud volcano) in East Java, Indonesia, which began erupting in May 2006.
Clearly this in not a company that can be trusted and has no interests in the preservation of our unique environment.
Over 23000 Australians objected to the Narrabri gas field and were blatantly ignored.
With the renewable roll out, NSW and the rest of Australia is becoming less reliant on gas and with the propaganda spruiking gas as a transition fuel, it stifling the just transition to net zero.
With species extinction and the the consensus in Australia to halt it and reverse species decline and habitat loss, it is insane to think that building a gas field and associated pipelines in one of Australia's biodiversity hotspots is a good idea!
We don't need contaminated water, we don't want contaminated soil, we want clean air and fresh produce from one of the worlds biggest and best food bowls in the Liverpool planes.
Santos has been bullying farmers, traditional owners, businesses and the general public for far too long.
It's time to put an end to this and shut this project down once and for all.