When Scott Morrison announced a $2 billion energy deal with the NSW Government to get more gas into the east coast market, it reignited a division that has split residents in the town of Narrabri.
Key points:The Federal Government has announced a $2 billion gas deal with the NSW Government"Narrabri has become almost a touch point for this debate," Tony Wood, the director of the Grattan Institute's energy program, told 7.30.
Santos has invested more than a billion dollars in a Narrabri coal seam gas project, which involves drilling more than 850 wells in coal seams, mostly on state land in the nearby Pilliga forest. "I know of people that were neighbours and relatives that don't speak to each other anymore," local businesswoman and councillor Ann Loder told 7.30.The project is still being assessed by environmental authorities in NSW, but opponents fear the new deal with the Federal Government will be used to push the project through the approval process.
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