Sydney-based MPs Kylea Tink and Dr Sophie Scamps arrive in Tamworth for helicopter tour before meeting with Liverpool Plains landholders

Independent federal members Kylea Tink, from North Sydney, and Dr Sophie Scamps, from Mackellar, were set to meet with landholders on Wednesday afternoon to "listen and learn" to local concerns.

The pair landed in Tamworth after a lengthy delay for bad weather, then jumped in a waiting chopper with a plan to get a bird's eye view of the Narrabri Gas Project's Pilliga site, and of the Liverpool Plains.

They are set to meet with locals on Wednesday night to discuss aquifers, and the resource base that could be destructed if a gas field was built in the area known as the country's food bowl, as well as the impacts on the environment, and more.

Santos received approval from the state government late last year to carry out seismic testing for coal seam gas on the Liverpool Plains, which the company has said was "low impact".

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The pipeline is expected to a focus of discussions on Thursday, with Dr Scamps and Ms Tink set to meet with affected landholders, before heading back to Sydney.

When the Leader revealed the planned trip, Ms Tink said she was mainly coming to listen and learn.

"I think the most important thing I can do, once I'm educated and informed, is to advocate, to actually add my voice to this community's voice," she said.

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