Narrabri Gas

CSG deeply concerns me. The risk to water is too great. You can not allow corporations to destroy nature for their own profit, too many environments have been destroyed. Please do the right thing, do not allow yet another disaster for healthy clean water & soil to occur. Living creatures including humans rely on clean water for health, CSG affects water quality. The losses far far outway any monetary gain for Santos.

I do not want to see this project going ahead as I believe it will have tremendous and irreversible damage to our environment. Threatening wildlife and water quality, not only in the immediate area but also surrounding regions. Local farmers will be impacted. Culturally, there are many sacred sites in this area that need to be protected. Preserve this vital area for future generations to experience. Stop plundering the land when there are alternatives that can provide the same outcome. Once nature is gone we can't get it back!!!

There are so many reasons to object on this project. Having just completed a University paper which involved researching climate change, it is frightening to learn how an increase in catastrophic events around the world are being indisputably linked to climate changes. However governments from many countries are choosing to either not accept the facts or ignore them. Why? For wealth? Wealth that no one will care about when the world around them is falling apart. Coal mining is wreaking havoc on the environment in so many ways.

This project will have devastating effects on endangered wildlife specific to the region.

Santos have been responsible for mismanaged operations in the past, when it comes to human health and well being anything less than a perfect track record is not acceptable.

People have objected to this project, 96 per cent of those surveyed. How can that be ignored? It is no different to a bully in the playground who will not stop despite their victims pleadings.

This project is unethical, environmentally detrimental, and will only turn a nation further against it's failing government. There is little faith left in the people who are supposed to guide us and lead us. I really hope this project does not go forward.

The damage from a proposal such as this can never repaired regardless of promises made from the company or any licence requirements insisted on by the government and law makers. This is an opportunity to do what right for NSW and Australia, do not allow csg mining in this area.

Lack of consultation is a disgrace and this project should not be allowed to go ahead. It has the capacity to cause major environmental damage.

Everyone knows that drilling for coal seam gas has huge, irreversible consequences on the environment. Continuing this greedy, senseless pursuit is disrespectful to our first people, to our land owners, to our natural environment and most importantly of all to our wonderful motherland.

I object to the ongoing drilling and extraction of csg!
In NSW. In particular I do not believe it is in the Interest of our Nation to continue doing this for the sake of a few international dollars.

There is plenty of scientific evidence as to the risks and damage that will occur to our water table.

Good clean food and water for our citizens,is more important that a few dollars for our multinational companies

As an environmental scientist I strongly object to this proposed activity in this important area. It is staggering to think governments are still prepared to support this type of short term profiteering activity in environmentally sentive areas in 2017. Mostl environmental indicators nationally and internationally are on a serious decline, we are entering a period of mass extinction events and massively undermining the future of our children due to climate change, and yet you allow this klind of rot to keep going. Staggering. Have some balls and say no to this destructive proposal and start being a part of a restorative economy rather than a destructive one.

We don't want CSG - stop this destruction of our wilderness. We don't want your gas project - STOP!

the damage that CSG will do to the Great Artesian Basin and the landscape & fragile ecosystem is irreversible. PLEASE STOP!

Bloody hell no!!

Stop fracking up our beautiful land!!

1. The Narrabri Gas Project risks precious water sources, including the Great Australian BasinÂ--AustraliaÂ'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 areasÂ--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 RiverÂ--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.

2. 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.

3. Farmers and other local community reject the project
Extensive community surveys have shown an average of 96% opposition to CSG. This stretches across a massive 3.2 million hectares of country surrounding the Pilliga forest, including 99 communities. Hundreds of farmers have participated in protest actions unlike any previously seen in the region.

4. The Narrabri Gas Project has a long history of spills and leaks of toxic CSG waterÂ--Santos cannot be trusted to manage the project safely
Santos has already contaminated a freshwater aquifer in the Pilliga with uranium at levels 20 times higher than safe drinking water guidelines, as well as lead, aluminium, arsenic and barium². In addition, there have been over 20 reported spills and leaks of toxic CSG water from storage ponds, pipes and well heads. Santos cannot be trusted.

5. The Pilliga is a haven for threatened wildlife
The Pilliga is one of 15 nationally listed Â`biodiversity hotspotsÂ' 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 pipelinesÂ--damaging vital habitat and threatening the survival of endangered species.

6. 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.

7. Human health is compromised by coal seam gas
A range of hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds can be released into the air from coal seam gas operations, including flaring of gas wells. The effects of volatile organic compounds vary, but can cause eye, nose and airway irritation, headache, nausea, dizziness and loss of coordination⁴. These impacts have been documented in human populations nearby to existing gasfields in Queensland, Sydney and in America.

8. The nationÂ's premier optical astronomical observatory is at risk
The Siding Springs Observatory, situated in the Warrumbungles and adjacent to the Pilliga, is under threat from the Narrabri Gas Project due to light and dust pollution⁵. The area has been internationally recognised as a Â`dark sky parkÂ'⁶ and the 50m high gas flares proposed by Santos threaten the viability of the facility.

9. 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. Between 17,000 and 42,000 tonnes of salt waste would be produced each year. This industry would leave a toxic legacy in NSW.

10. Risk of fires would increase throughout the PilligaÂ's tinder-box conditions
Methane flare stacks up to 50m high would be running day and night, even on total fire ban days. The Pilliga is prone to severe bushfires. The project would increase ignition sources as well as extracting, transporting and storing a highly flammable gas right within this extremely fire-prone forest.

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 areasÂ--potentially stopping the free flow of waters to the surface at springs and bores across the whole Great Artesian Basin..
Extensive community surveys have shown an average of 90+% of local farmers and their fellow community members opposition to CSG.
Santos has already contaminated a freshwater aquifer in the Pilliga with uranium at levels 20 times higher than safe drinking water guidelines, as well as lead, aluminium, arsenic and barium. In addition, there have been over 20 reported spills and leaks of toxic CSG water from storage ponds, pipes and well heads.
The Pilliga is one of 15 nationally listed Â`biodiversity hotspotsÂ' 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 pipelinesÂ--damaging vital habitat and threatening the survival of endangered species.
How much of our diverse country can we rape and pillage before we finally see that we have totally ruined this nations sustainability for future generations.

1. The Narrabri Gas Project risks precious water sources, including the Great Australian BasinÂ--AustraliaÂ'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 areasÂ--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 RiverÂ--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.

2. 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.

3. Farmers and other local community reject the project
Extensive community surveys have shown an average of 96% opposition to CSG. This stretches across a massive 3.2 million hectares of country surrounding the Pilliga forest, including 99 communities. Hundreds of farmers have participated in protest actions unlike any previously seen in the region.

4. The Narrabri Gas Project has a long history of spills and leaks of toxic CSG waterÂ--Santos cannot be trusted to manage the project safely
Santos has already contaminated a freshwater aquifer in the Pilliga with uranium at levels 20 times higher than safe drinking water guidelines, as well as lead, aluminium, arsenic and barium². In addition, there have been over 20 reported spills and leaks of toxic CSG water from storage ponds, pipes and well heads. Santos cannot be trusted.

5. The Pilliga is a haven for threatened wildlife
The Pilliga is one of 15 nationally listed Â`biodiversity hotspotsÂ' 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 pipelinesÂ--damaging vital habitat and threatening the survival of endangered species.

6. 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.

7. Human health is compromised by coal seam gas
A range of hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds can be released into the air from coal seam gas operations, including flaring of gas wells. The effects of volatile organic compounds vary, but can cause eye, nose and airway irritation, headache, nausea, dizziness and loss of coordination⁴. These impacts have been documented in human populations nearby to existing gasfields in Queensland, Sydney and in America.

8. The nationÂ's premier optical astronomical observatory is at risk
The Siding Springs Observatory, situated in the Warrumbungles and adjacent to the Pilliga, is under threat from the Narrabri Gas Project due to light and dust pollution⁵. The area has been internationally recognised as a Â`dark sky parkÂ'⁶ and the 50m high gas flares proposed by Santos threaten the viability of the facility.

9. 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. Between 17,000 and 42,000 tonnes of salt waste would be produced each year. This industry would leave a toxic legacy in NSW.

10. Risk of fires would increase throughout the PilligaÂ's tinder-box conditions
Methane flare stacks up to 50m high would be running day and night, even on total fire ban days. The Pilliga is prone to severe bushfires. The project would increase ignition sources as well as extracting, transporting and storing a highly flammable gas right within this extremely fire-prone forest.

The Great Artesian basin is one of Australia's most important water resources. It is a terrible risk to allow it to be tampered with by a CSG operation.
If something were to go wrong future generations would condemn us.

Coal seam Gas mining is environmentally unstable and creates long term issues concerning water contamination. It destabilizes the earth which could lead to many irreparable disasters, an example sink holes. If the gas leaks out of the surface it can poison all the area in its vicinity, this includes nature, animals, people and crops which are all part of the living process. Its a barbaric atrocity on the earth. It is not a sustainable energy. No good can come of this process. We need pure fresh clean water to drink and land that is safe to inhabit, Coal Seam is like digging our own graves.

Time to look away from fossil fuels for energy.

I object to this gas project. I am sick of corporate greed ruining our beautiful country and threatening our live style and livelihood. We must protect our environment and natural resources vigorously and invest in new technologies. I strongly hope that commonsense will prevail and this project will be stopped.

This incredible habitat deserves to be protected!