The mining company Santos said that a mistake made in a review needed for approval to drill in the Gunnedah Basin does not affect their environmental credentials.

In a review of environmental factors submitted to the Department of Primary Industries Santos incorrectly located the drill site 100 kilometres aware from where it will actually occur.

A spokesman for Santos Sam Crafter said that it was a minor error. He said that he rejects suggestions by the Caroona Coal Action Group that they simply copy and pasted the environmental assessment from a past project.

He added that "We've got a long record of working to the highest of environmental standards, and that will continue here in NSW. In the document the wrong catchment name was put in place, the Blue Vale catchment is actually a catchment we were working in for some of our other exploration work.”

He further added that "Unfortunately we've had a documentary error here, but all of the work and the reviews that have being done for that document, have being done around the Yarraman Catchment.”

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