Santos made a final effort to convince the Independent Planning Commission of New South Wales of the merits of its $3.6 billion Narrabri fuel project, making the oil and fuel giant a friend of farmers after an avalanche of opposition from local landowners.
Farmer David Watt opposes the project.
Santos’ executive leader, Kevin Gallagher, told commissioners that the company had an intelligent relationship with Queensland farmers, with more than 2,000 land deals in place in its Bowen and Surat coal fields.
“[I] would like to reiterate in this other communication is our forged delight of coexistence with farmers.
“We have been working in partnership for over 65 years across the country and, more recently, we have developed a coal vein fuel industry in Queensland that is well earned through farmers and rural and regional communities,” Gallagher wrote in a letter to the Santos final. Presentation of the CPI.
Gallagher sought to change the tone after seven days of marathon public auditions that listened to more than 400 performances. The vast majority opposed progression for reasons such as water pollution, chimney hazard, climate replacement and removal of salt waste from the site.
David Watt, whose farm is subsidized through the Santos fuel site, as well as two other local farmers, Sam Bragg and Mal Donaldson, complained at hearings that they had never been contacted through Santos during their years of consultations with locals.
No single farmer joined the handful of votes for the assignment at the hearings in late July, however, Gallagher insisted that Santos had reveled in smart relationships with farmers and had been welcome elsewhere.
“Landowners have welcomed the bills that help their farms in the face of drought by offering a momentary source of income through the housing of the fuel box infrastructure, allowing them to expand their operations in other directions, acquire more land and raise the price to their properties,” Gallagher wrote.
Instead, farmers close to Narrabri joined locals, environmental activists and experts who opposed the project, pointing to one of Santos’ central arguments that fuel can be safely extracted without contaminating water resources.
Santos and the New South Wales Planning Department say fuel from coal veins can be safely extracted from deep carbon veins through several layers of deeper water rocks at the allocation site in the Pilliga state forest. They argue that the extraction strategy is unlikely to alter major failures and will protect water from contamination and leakage.
Santos rejected accusations of new evidence that the allocation may particularly underestimate the effect on shallow aquifers, arguing that knowledge presented through scientists to the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has already been fully taken into account.
“Multiple evidence indicates that the maximum known failures in the allocation domain are small-scale and do not enlarge the suprayacent formations. Possible effects on groundwater due to failures are highly unlikely at the local and regional level.
Santos has conducted an in-depth review of existing knowledge that his conclusions on the characterization of defects.”
Santos said it could administer the expected 33,600 tons of salt a year from the project, bringing up the oil and fuel company’s memorandum with Colorado-based sodium bicarbonate manufacturer Natural Soda.
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