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25.01.2022 US study shows pollution of water by gas industry. Australia following the same dangerous path.

25.01.2022 The zone is spreading

25.01.2022 Legends in action today

23.01.2022 Insanity of the Day

21.01.2022 Help manufacturing?

21.01.2022 Tomorrow the IPC will announce a decision https://www.smh.com.au//inhibit-the-commission-s-freedom-v

20.01.2022 national parks and state forestry forced themselves in to be caretakers of our stolen country when they are forcing gas and coal on us Gomeroi. Talk about havin...g the most useless no good caretaker. Did you see the caretakers took this sign away. So know one knows it's a CONSERVATION AREA so Santos can frack it...NOT FUCKING HAPPY SAN. They also locked the emergency fire escape routes AGAIN...SO NOT FUCKING HAPPY SAN you fracking invader See more

18.01.2022 CNN's Angus Watson is watching the Narrabri issue with interest too!

17.01.2022 Stranded asset already?

15.01.2022 This outrage management specialist is going to have her work cut out for her

13.01.2022 Climate criminals

13.01.2022 When government fails, the people have to go back to the barricades and become heroes

12.01.2022 If anyone requires evidence that NSW is utterly corrupt and divorced from science, common sense and reason, here you go

10.01.2022 This interesting graph tells a big story about Santos at Narrabri: cost of extracting the gas could approach $8 per gigajoule compared with about half that to ...import it via Port Kembla...Earlier this month a Grattan Insitute report said there was no low-cost gas left in eastern Australia http://www.smh.com.au//nsw-government-backs-narrabri-gas-p See more

07.01.2022 Disgusting stuff

07.01.2022 Tour announced!

07.01.2022 #Santos stop using sport to cleanse your dirty image.Santos festival of rugby Narrabri

05.01.2022 Gas! https://www.echo.net.au//gas-rears-its-very-ugly-head-yet/

05.01.2022 Let’s be really clear. The Pilliga forest is not closed (only a small portion is closed and the roads around it are OPEN). Santos do not own the forest (it is S...tate Forest leased by Forestry Corporation) and just because they have approval DOES NOT mean this fight is over. This is where the fun begins. Santos must have a bottomless pit of money to spend in order to proceed (not likely)!!! We need you to BELIEVE & KNOW that together we will protect OUR water & OUR LAND. On the 24th November Environment Minister Sussan Ley MP will likely give Federal Approval to the project. Sussan, we commend you on your decision to delay the Vickery Extension Project until the climate change court case is heard and we implore you to consider a similar path with Narrabri. Share this meme, tag the Environment Minister & tell her to #LeyOffPilliga Contact her here and let her know that you want to see the Pilliga protected from coal seam gas mining: Phone: 1300 303 203 Email [email protected] Twitter @SussanLey Instagram @SussanLeyMP #StopSantos #StopCSG #WaterIsLife #StandTogether

04.01.2022 Appalling stuff from the ALP https://www.theguardian.com//federal-labors-madeleine-king

02.01.2022 Narrabri gasfield gets go-ahead By Eve Sinton, Fossil Fool Bulletin, 30/09/2020 Photo: Gwilym Summers In a move bitterly disappointing to thousands of people wh...o have opposed the Santos Narrabri gasfield, New South Wales Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has given the project a tick of approval. The IPC has covered its arse with 134 conditions and a phased approval, in which each step must meet targets before the next phase is approved. The approval process was compressed into a tight time-frame by NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes, despite drawing 23,000 public submissions of which 98% were opposed to the development. A late submission from Santos on gas production costs was accepted, but another late submission on water issues from Lock the Gate was rejected. The Knitting Nannas Against Gas have been at the forefront of opposition to the gasfield. Knitting Nannas incensed The Lismore Knitting Nannas are incensed by the IPC’s decision to allow Santos to continue its plan to create an enormous gas mine in the Pilliga/Billiga forest, they said. This decision dismisses the rights of the Gamilleroi people and the thousands of concerned citizens who put submissions to the IPC. This invasive method of mining will cause irreparable damage to sacred sites, thousands of homes and farms and the Pilliga forest, the filter that feeds the Great Artesian Basin. Gas is not, nor ever will be, an appropriate transition fuel. It is heavily subsidised by the tax-payer, and much more dangerous to our environment than we’ve been told by the pollies queued up to the revolving door that leads them onto the boards of fossil fuel companies. We are utterly dismayed by this decision and the effect it will have on the future of our children and grandchildren. You haven’t heard the last from us, the Nannas said as they gathered outside local MP Kevin Hogan’s office to express their dismay. Santos has more hurdles to negotiate Meanwhile, Lock the Gate spokeswoman Georgina Woods told the Sydney Morning Herald the conditions mean Santos is a long way from the starting gates. The requirement for the company to redo the groundwater model so that it meets a Class-3 confidence level before project construction can proceed will be particularly challenging, she said. Santos is really going to struggle to proceed with this gasfield. Woods noted the IPC had highlighted that 71% of the local submissions were opposed to the project, dousing commentary that the region supported the gasfield. Santos faces continuing opposition from a number of groups determined to snuff out the gasfield, and willing to put themselves on the ground at Narrabri and in the courts. These include Lock the Gate, the Knitting Nannas and North West Protection Advocacy. Environmental Defenders Office CEO David Morris said he would be meeting with clients whose submissions to the IPC had been rejected, to discuss their legal options. Traditional Owners and farmers plan to ramp up the battle Farmers and Gomeroi Traditional Owners fighting the Santos Narrabri coal seam gasfield will ramp up the battle to protect their lands and precious water resources despite today’s disastrous IPC decision. They have taken aim at the Berejiklian and Morrison Governments who they say have failed to listen to the community and protect groundwater from coal seam gas. Gomeroi woman Polly Cutmore said, Our people don’t want this gasfield and we are here to tell the government, Santos and their investors that will keep on fighting it. The Pilliga is Gomeroi land and Santos is not welcome there. We will never stop fighting to protect the Pilliga and protect Gomeroi country from coal seam gas. Coonamble stock and station agent David Chadwick said, The Commission has made the wrong decision and they have made it based on bad laws and bad politics that promote coal seam gas. This decision puts the groundwater resources we rely on in the firing line of this destructive coal seam gas industry. The Morrison Federal Government and Berejiklian State Government were both so hell-bent on this polluting gasfield going ahead. Clearly that kind of pressure has drowned out the community’s clear rejection of the industry and the warnings of scientists about the threat it poses to our groundwater. The National Party in particular has utterly betrayed its traditional supporter base. The appalling display of contempt by the Nationals for the communities the party claims to represent is untenable. The Commission has made a terrible mistake and has condemned our region to having to keep fighting this destructive industry. Which we will. Coal seam gas is mother nature’s melanoma, and to pursue this sunset industry over agriculture and food production is just unbelievable. Renew Economy reported that Greenpeace Australia said the Narrabri project would lead to ‘unacceptable’ environmental impacts, and called on federal environment minister Sussan Ley to step in and block the development of the project. Extracting and burning methane has already made a massive contribution to the climate crisis and turning Narrabri into a gas field would only exacerbate extreme weather events like bushfires, Greenpeace Australia campaigner Jonathan Moylan said. Sussan Ley must head off the inevitable community conflict and use her powers to reject this project following the highly uncertain approval by New South Wales. Investors bag business case for gasfield Santos has also drawn fire from a group of investors. Macrobusiness commentator David Llewellyn-Smith said, Knock me over with a feather. The nobbled NSW planning commission has approved the development of Narrabri gas by Australia’s most evil company, Santos. He continued: So, lock in higher energy prices. Brace for a poisoned Great Artesian Basin. And enjoy the gas cartel for as far the eye can see. Llewellyn-Smith has previously pointed out that the NSW Chief Scientist’s 16 conditions stipulated for coal seam gas development won’t be applied to the Santos development. He said the tonnes of cadmium rich salts that will be discarded after drilling are highly carcinogenic. We are talking millions upon millions of tonnes toxic salts because this is only phase one of the Narrabri project. There will be five or six new phases that follow that will all be rubber-stamped if the first gets approval. These will Swiss cheese north west NSW while dropping a slow-motion subterranean atom bomb into the holes. With no oversight of the chief scientist’s 16 conditions for safe extraction. Llewellyn-Smith says Santos is a proven liar in public discourse and had made deceptive statements about gas supplies when setting up its gas export terminal in Queensland. Highly prejudiced, corrupt That scandalous lie led directly to the collapse of the east coast gas market and the very shortages that we are now trying to backfill with Narrabri. Everything that Santos says should be regarded as highly prejudiced, corrupt and disregarded accordingly, he said. Santos has no incentive to make the gas cheap. It is a core member of the east coast gas export cartel. Therefore, what it will do is send offshore more of the gas it currently supplies to NSW, while using Narrabri as its substitute. This will sustain an artificially tight market and keep the price at $10Gj. That is, most importantly, Narrabri gas does nothing to break the market power of the gas export cartel so it will not lower prices. He concluded, The truth is this. Australia has been played by a lying scumbag corporation which turned a major national resource endowment into a crippling economic handicap by cornering gas reserves. Now that same gangster is aiming to benefit from our failure to identify its first extortion rort. FFB notes that electricity prices are driven by gas prices, so we may expect rising electricity bills as a result of expensive Narrabri gas. Santos welcomes approval In a statement, Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher said, Santos is excited about the prospect of developing the Narrabri Gas Project, a 100% domestic gas project that can provide the lowest cost source of gas for NSW customers. This major step forward is welcome, but we must now obtain the approval of the federal minister for the environment under the EPBC Act as well as other subsequent approvals. While these approval processes are underway, Santos will commence planning for work-over activities on existing wells under its current exploration tenures. Once all approvals are in place, this will be followed by a 12-18 month appraisal drilling program, including expansion of our water monitoring network. This appraisal will inform the final plans for the phased development of the project. The IPC said, Public submissions have greatly assisted the Commission in critically examining the Department’s assessment. The Commission has considered these submissions in weighing, among other factors, the assessed merits of the Project, the relevant planning instruments, policies and environmental protections, the impacts of the Project and the capacity to reasonably and satisfactorily mitigate and manage these impacts by imposing stringent conditions on the consent. The IPC didn’t grant approval for Santos’ workers’ accommodation, the Leewood power generation plant or the pilot well flares. Conditions apply According to The Land, conditions for the project’s approval include: Construction of wells cannot begin until planning permission for a transmission pipeline is obtained; No hydraulic fracturing [fracking] permitted; Any greenhouse gas emissions in excess of the projected amount will have to be offset by Santos at its expense; Santos will be paying for a pair of intersection upgrades on the Newell Highway; Special dark-skies provisions to protect Siding Springs Observatory.

01.01.2022 Daniel Tapp knows his stuff