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Stop Santos’ Narrabri Gas Plans in north west NSW

Coal seam gas (CSG) proposals put land, water and culture at risk, and have been rejected by local communities in north-west NSW, including Gomeroi Traditional Owners and farmers. CSG will turbocharge climate change and cause more droughts, floods and fires. 

We know the path forward for NSW isn’t more gas, but less. Victoria and the ACT both have plans to get off gas by electrifying industry and homes, but NSW does not. 

We can make dramatic reductions in gas demand in NSW by supporting households and businesses to switch to renewables which would reduce energy costs and help with the cost of living, perpetually. 

We don’t need the Narrabri Gas Project or the pipelines that go with it – all it will do is drive up energy bills and destroy our region.

Tell the NSW Government to stop CSG projects planned for north west NSW and support renewables instead!

 

To: NSW Premier Chris Minns, NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe

cc: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Minister for Climate change Chris Bowen,

We're calling on you to:

-Stop CSG projects planned for the Pilliga forest and our foodbowl on the Liverpool Plains, and associated pipeline infrastructure that will stretch across the Hunter and north-west NSW - harming land, water and culture.  

-Support renewable alternatives that have community backing instead and develop a gas substitution roadmap and energy efficiency measures for households and businesses to ease cost of living pressures and deliver real action on climate change.

 

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Narrabri Gas Project

The Narrabri Gas Project (NGP) would involve drilling 850 coal seam gas wells in the Pilliga Forest- the largest temperate woodland in eastern Australia. It would involve clearing forest and carving up the Pilliga with roads, pipelines and wellpads, causing untold destruction.

The proposed NGP also extends across a key recharge area of the Great Artesian Basin, which is Australia’s greatest inland water source. Coal seam gas risks draining and polluting this incredible water resource.

The Pilliga has extraordinary cultural significance for Gomeroi Traditional Owners, who have challenged the proposed NGP project in court and have made it clear that they do not consent to it being built on Gomeroi country.

The NGP is a polluting gas project that will fuel climate change and exacerbate extreme weather and climate disasters that are already harming Australians.

 

High Pressure Gas Pipelines

There are two high pressure gas pipelines proposed to link to the Narrabri Gas Project:

  1. The Narrabri Lateral Pipeline: which would run from the Narrabri Gas Project right through the Pilliga and east to Baan Baa.
  2. The Hunter Gas Pipeline:  which would run from Baan Baa down across the Liverpool Plains and the Hunter Valley towards Newcastle.

The proposed high pressure gas pipelines from the Narrabri Gas Project will disrupt farming operations, create bio-security issues, and risk major erosion across the black soil plains of the Liverpool Plains. 

The proposed NGP will also will cut through some of the most important Koala habitats in NSW and will clear endangered Box Gum Woodland.

In 2020, the NSW and Australian governments granted approval to Santos for the Narrabri gasfield, but Santos is yet to decide to proceed with the gasfield. 

The community struggle to protect the Pilliga and the land and water of the North West from CSG is ongoing, led by Gomeroi people, farmers and conservationists. 

Tell the NSW Government to stop CSG projects planned for north west NSW and support renewables instead!

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