The NSW Department of Planning & Environment admitted on June 7 that it had been inundated with more than 23,000 mostly oppositional submissions to corporate giant Santos鈥 plan for a gas field in the Pilliga region in north-western NSW.
The department has now totalled the figures: more than 18,000 鈥渇orm submissions鈥 were sent in 鈥 meaning that many people took advantage of anti-fracking groups鈥 efforts to broaden the anti-gas campaign, by signing a form and adding their personal view to a statement of concern.