Legal challenges still loom over Santos' $2.4bn Narrabri CBM project [Gas in Transition]

Legal challenges still loom over Santos' $2.4bn Narrabri CBM project [Gas in Transition]

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Legal challenges still loom over Santos' $2.4bn Narrabri CBM project [Gas in Transition]

Summary

The project, which could supply enough gas to meet up to half of New South Wales' demand, is at risk of further delay. by: Shardul Sharma

Santos’ A$3.6bn ($2.4bn) Narrabri coalbed methane (CBM) project in New South Wales has hit fresh legal challenges, raising the risk of the project getting further delayed. The full federal court in Australia on March 6 allowed the indigenous Gomeroi people to appeal against a decision by the National Native Title Tribunal, which had approved the project. Australia’s National Native Title Tribunal in December 2022 allowed Santos to move ahead with the Narrabri project, with the condition that additional cultural heritage research is done before the project's second phase. The tribunal said that the project would provide a public benefit, "significantly outweighing" the Gomeroi applicant’s concerns that it would damage their culture, land and waters and contr...