New risk advice has found Santos’ Narrabri gasfield Environmental Impact Statement has overlooked the likely intensification and prevalence of catastrophic bushfires and other weather extremes as a result of a warming climate.

It appears the McGowan Government has broken a commitment to restrict fracking to existing petroleum leases, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.

Protect Territory Alliance has slammed the NT Gunner Government’s illogical obsession with fracking following the announcement it would adopt all 15 recommendations in the gas-baron led Territory Economic Reconstruction Commission’s interim report.

The NSW Planning Department’s director has contradicted Santos over the impact its unpopular Narrabri gasfield would have on gas prices in the first day of the Independent Planning Commission’s public hearings into the project.

Farmers east of the Pilliga fear they have been “erased” from the NSW Planning Department’s assessment of the Santos Narrabri gas field.