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Our Aim is to provide advocacy and assist with community engagement and monitoring services to help landowners and community members who are already or may be impacted by invasive mining and gas pipeline activities. Our goal is to act now with strength and strategic planning.
We Aim to protect and preserve our natural assets such as groundwater, the Great Artesian Basin, food security, forests, farms, Indigenous cultural heritage and values and flora and fauna.
We Seek environmental justice, aiming to uphold and improve our existing environmental laws and preserve intergenerational equity (leave more for our kids, not less).
Our Mission is to provide urgently needed, frontline, practical assistance and advocacy for communities under threat. We will share our expertise to support vulnerable communities faced with the onslaught of Coal Seam Gas, major coal expansions and the linked industrial intensification they entail.
NWPA Members have continually proven how beneficial the relationships between farming communities and committed environmentalists can be by effectively halting the CSG industry in NSW for many years. Unconventional gas mining (Narrabri Gas Project) has been approved by the IPC in NSW and Queensland continues to bear the brunt of the invasive and damaging industry threatening the integrity of the Great Artesian Basin.
Join us, we are always seeking new volunteers to join us so please get in touch at northwestpa@protonmail.com and together we will help to stop further damage to country and community.
Our account is open for donations: Every single dollar that is given to us allows our volunteers to continue the essential work of protecting the north-west. All contributions, large or small, are very much appreciated.
North West Protection Advocacy BSB: 932 000 ACC: 100410577
This is the report we produced on the high CO2 levels across the #NarrabriGas project in the #Pilliga
@ChrisMinnsMP @PennySharpemlc @tanya_plibersek
https://nwprotectionadvocacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NARRABRI-GAS-PROJECT-GHG-claims-refuted-April-2020_web.pdf
“@NWPAdvocacy did go back and look closely at the “deeper” coal seams referred to by Mr Spence and has found, if anything, CO2 present in the deeper coal formations is in some cases even higher than the shallower Hoskissons coal seam.”
https://nwprotectionadvocacy.com/santos-annual-general-meeting-statements-open-up-new-doubts-about-narrabri-gas-eis-disclosures/
Heard on grapevine - apparently @Kevinandersonmp asked for this sign to be removed at an election booth. #Nationals “not authorised signage”. From a politician who says he doesn’t want the #LiverpoolPlains to be gassed and in last 12 years done little to protect them.
@QuentinDempster I’m informed that the MP representing Narrabri, Independent @RoyBarwon Roy Butler won the Narrabri and WeeWaa booths.Roy has opposed the Santos project and has been a fierce defender of the groundwater resources of the Great Artesian Basin.
Congrats @RoyBarwon for retaining #Barwon as an independent - thanks for all your hard work over the years & what you do for our region #nswpol 👍
Four NEW coreholes and six NEW pilot wells OR the recharge zone of the #GreatArtesianBasin. Probably not likely that the #Pilliga Forest will be able to coexist with Santos’ gas plans #CSG #AUSpol #NarrabriGas
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