Santos' $3.6b Narrabri gas project hit with fresh lawsuit
The case, which was filed by the Gomeroi people of northern NSW on June 16, comes just a month after the Native Title Tribunal ruled that the project's importance to Australia's energy reliability outweighed potential environmental and cultural heritage concerns.
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