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Just as the SANTOS Board recommends $STO shareholders to accept the takeover offer from the Abu Dhabi Oil Company, reports have been circulating about SANTOS’ latest phone survey of public attitudes towards the Narrabri Gas Project. Participants report being pressed by the CSIRO’s phone research company Q & A Research to talk about their feelings … Read more
Whitehaven Coal’s scheme to reduce coal royalty payments has been disclosed in a three-day hearing before Justice David Hammerschlag, Chief Judge in Equity of the NSW Supreme Court. It was revealed that for years Whitehaven used the small Canyon Mine near Gunnedah, which was closed and has not produced coal since 2008, to generate fictitious … Read more
Produced water from coal seam gas extraction at Arcadia and Fairview (in the Hallett State Forest) is gathered and directed to centralised water management facilities where it is stored for treatment and beneficial reuse. It is the structures that store this waste that are the focus of this Environmental Protection Order (EPO) placing Santos’ brine … Read more
The controversial planning technique of biodiversity offsetting will come under the spotlight at a conference planned to take place at Narrabri’s Crossing Theatre on Saturday 22nd February 2025. This marks 10 years since coal mining companies started extracting coal from the Critically Endangered Ecological Community of Grassy White Box Woodland at the Leard State Forest … Read more
This week (Thursday, 31st October), the day after Whitehaven Coal’s 2024 Annual General Meeting, the company’s lawyers are set to make sentencing pleas in relation to four recent convictions in the blasting case that caused workers at Idemitsu’s Boggabri Coal mine to be sent to hospital. Typically this would see the company argue for clemency … Read more
The long-awaited judgment in NSW Environment Protection Authority’s prosecution of Maules Creek Coal mine blast, which caused the nearby Boggabri Coal mine to evacuate workers in the path of horrendous shockwaves and a wall of dust and fumes, has been delivered by Justice Sarah Pritchard of the NSW Land and Environment Court. 896,256kg (or around … Read more
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) conducted an Optical Gas Imaging inspection in the Pilliga Forest in June 2024. This inspection was an opportunity to follow up on the work done in eastern New South Wales and Queensland by Clean Air Task Force and ACF in 2023. Several pieces of equipment were found to be leaking … Read more
As part of the upcoming Pilliga Ultra Marathon, NWPA have committed to providing a guided “Gasfield in a Forest” Tours, travelling into the threatened Pilliga Forest as part of the three day event being held at the Pilliga Pottery. Friday 13th September 2024.8:00am (depart Pottery) – 1:30pm Tour Guides Johanna Evans, North West Protection Advocacy … Read more
During our March 2024 post-fire Pilliga forest inspection at Bohena South 1 NWPA observed numerous pieces of burnt irrigation equipment including fibreglass rods, polycrete blocks, tech screws, bolts and plastic HDPE pipes. The area around the well site Bohena South 1 was littered with the remnants of Santos’ equipment. It was clear that a half-baked … Read more
Article is the fourth in a series written by Kyogle Environment Group The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is facing scrutiny amidst a backdrop of concerning environmental degradation. As native species vanish and habitats shrink at an alarming rate, urgent reforms are needed. Under the stewardship of the Federal Minister for … Read more