Gomeroi people of Coonabarabran are holding a gathering on Saturday 14^th January, 2023, 5-9pm because of the Native Title Tribunal’s decision to extinguish Native Title over parts of the Pilliga forest that has been integral to the Gomeroi nation for millennia. On Sunday 15^th a Pilliga/gas field tour leaves Coonabarabran at 9am. More details on the Facebook Event Continue reading →

APA has announced it will discontinue the development of the Western Slopes Pipeline from Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project to APA’s Moomba Sydney pipeline.

Coonamble, Warren and other communities along the route were opposed to the project and refused APA contractors entry onto their properties to survey. Here is a short documentary on the united communities that succeeded in stopping the high pressure gas pipeline.

Recently Santos purchased the Hunter Gas Pipeline and is currently trying to get access to properties from Narrabri, through the Hunter to Newcastle to survey the route.

Despite the Western Slopes Pipeline not going ahead, the people of Coonamble will continue to oppose the Narrabri Gas Project because the Pilliga forest is a recharge area of the Great Artesian Basin. The region depends on the Great Artesian Basin’s water particularly during droughts. The Narrabri Gas Project has the potential to contaminate this water.

Santos has ramped up gas extraction in the Pilliga Forest under its exploration licence, deploying a type of drilling rig known as a flushby rig 40km south of Narrabri. They are conducting production enhancement and well suspensions, industry jargon for remedial works aimed at preparing gas wells for production. Continue reading →

Santos has acquired Hunter Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd which owns an approved underground gas pipeline route from Wallumbilla in Queensland to Newcastle in New South Wales. Continue reading →

Farmers are outraged after the NSW Perrottet Government quietly renewed massive coal seam gas exploration tenements owned by Santos in the world-renowned Liverpool Plains farming district. Continue reading →

The Pilliga Project is a terrific film about the Pilliga Forest, the Narrabri Gas Project, how gas impacts water, the environment and communities and how it will spread to the north west food bowl. It also highlights the spread of gas mining around Australia. Please share widely. Continue reading →

This update includes legal decisions, progress at Narrabri, the National Gas Infrastructure plan, and an explainer on carbon capture and storage. Continue reading →