Stop the Narrabri Gas Project

Gas giant Santos want to drill 850 coal seam gas wells near Narrabri, in North West NSW.

This project will:

Drill through a groundwater recharge zone of the Great Artesian Basin and threaten food and fibre production in the Narrabri region
Extract over 35 billion litres of saline groundwater and produce almost 500,000 tonnes of salt waste
Clear close to 1,000 hectares of the Pilliga Forest, fragmenting the largest temperate woodland in New South Wales, home to unique wildlife.

Gas giant Santos want to drill 850 coal seam gas wells near Narrabri, in North West NSW.

This project will:

Drill through a groundwater recharge zone of the Great Artesian Basin and threaten food and fibre production in the Narrabri region
Extract over 35 billion litres of saline groundwater and produce almost 500,000 tonnes of salt waste
Clear close to 1,000 hectares of the Pilliga Forest, fragmenting the largest temperate woodland in New South Wales, home to unique wildlife.

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We have only until the 22 May to lodge objections to the Narrabri Gas Project. Let's send Santos a message they can't ignore!

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Attn: Executive Director, Resource Assessments
Department of Planning and Environment
GPO Box 39
Sydney NSW 2001

This is a submission to the Narrabri Gas Project EIS.

I object to this project and believe it should be rejected.

This project, if approved, would:
1.	Extract over 35 billion litres of salt laden groundwater, much of it in the first five years. This water will be treated and will generate almost 500,000 tonnes of salt waste, for which there is no safe disposal plan.
2.	Clear close to 1,000 hectares of the Pilliga Forest, fragmenting the largest temperate woodland in New South Wales, home to unique wildlife.
3.	Drill through a recharge aquifer of the Great Artesian Basin and draw water down from a water resource relied upon by rural communities across western NSW. 
4.	Lead to large deliberate and emissions of methane from venting and leakage, adding to climate change.

The project will also 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.

The project is not justified: Santos’ own coal seam gas export activities in Queensland have caused gas prices to rise and supply to become unpredictable.

NSW should respond to this by investing in more reliable and ultimately cheaper renewable energy, not by letting Santos inflict more environmental, social and economic harm.

It will cause economic upheaval in Narrabri and put agricultural industries at risk, as well as causing light pollution that will ruin the dark night sky needed by the internationally renowned Siding Spring Observatory.

Coal seam gas is harmful to health. Neither the NSW Government nor Santos have investigated or dealt with the serious health effects of coal seam gas now appearing in peer-reviewed research in the United States.

I urge the Government to reject this project and make the Great Artesian Basin recharge off-limits to gas mining.

Signed,

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