This Month
Greens inflaming housing crisis
Readers’ letters on the Greens; Labor’s gas strategy; International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol; and Kerry Stokes putting an end to printed copies of The Australian Financial Review in WA.
April
MinRes says $1b debt-reducing haul road sale is still on track
The iron ore and lithium miner expects to sell a stake in a haul road by June 30 as it weighs up a big investment in onshore gas processing.
- Brad Thompson
King opts out of call on NSW gas project over her past attacks
Resources Minister Madeleine King pulls out of making decisions around high-profile gas project off the coast of NSW that she once described as risky and a threat to jobs.
- Brad Thompson
D’Ambrosio gas claim debunked after outburst against Labor’s King
In another Victorian clash over gas with the Albanese government, Lily D’Ambrosio accused Madeleine King of behaving like “a Coalition minister”.
- Jacob Greber and Gus McCubbing
Queensland to make up Victoria’s gas shortfall this winter
The outlook for July, August and September comes after the Australian Energy Market Operator last month warned of a deterioration in Victoria’s medium-term gas supply.
- Ronald Mizen
March
Labor pulls gas bill after Greens threaten car emission reforms
Labor halted an offshore gas regulation bill the Coalition said it would support after the Greens threatened to retaliate by scuttling Labor’s car policy.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Gas
Running out of gas is avoidable – but we need to move fast
Declining production from offshore Victorian gas fields is unlikely to be substantially replaced by new local gas supply.
- Tony Wood
February
Forrest taps former APA gas guru to run Squadron Energy
Andrew Forrest has hired former APA Group boss Rob Wheals to lead Squadron Energy which is building wind farms and gas plants across the eastern states.
- Brad Thompson
January
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Barossa win strengthens Santos’ hand in Woodside talks
The Federal Court’s go-ahead for Santos’ Barossa gas project removes a potential sticking point in its merger talks with Woodside.
- James Thomson
Investors ‘flying blind’ over climate lawsuit risks
Polluting companies could be liable for trillions in damages from climate cases, but investors and regulators are overlooking the risks, academics warn.
- Gus McCubbing
‘No need to be defensive about gas’: NSW Energy Minister
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe say gas will continue to play a critical role firming up a grid increasingly dependent on intermittent renewables.
- Samantha Hutchinson
December 2023
After her power bill doubled, this grocer had to make a change
Relief on electricity prices is in sight after deep falls in wholesale prices, but the pain is acute in South Australia and NSW where power bills are highest.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Energy transition needs gas, not nuclear
A rational decarbonising energy policy offers a middle path between the absolutists and the denialists.
- Craig Emerson
November 2023
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Bowen’s big bang energy push puts heat back on Coalition
The opposition says Labor is “writing a blank cheque” to renewables investors. But it’s yet to detail how much its own nuclear energy alternative would cost taxpayers.
- Jacob Greber
Industry push to make Australia north Asia’s ‘carbon sink’
Gas industry is working to establish regional rules to capture, ship and store CO₂ from gas burning,
- Jacob Greber
Court halts Santos’ Barossa pipeline to answer ‘serious’ questions
Traditional owners argued construction should stop until the company assesses new evidence of cultural heritage risks, securing an interim injunction.
- Updated
- Elouise Fowler
October 2023
Demand for fossil fuels will peak by 2030: global energy body
The IEA’s annual report warns that avoiding catastrophic climate change requires a 30 per cent cut in extraction of oil and gas by 2030.
- Jacob Greber
Australia will ‘always be’ reliable supplier of gas to Japan
Amid growing concerns about supply, Resources Minister Madeleine King has moved to reassure one of the country’s most important trade partners it is business as usual.
- Mark Ludlow and Tom McIlroy
- Analysis
- Energy
Resource-poor Japan courts Australia 50 years on
As risks increase in LNG producing countries, Japan needs Australia more than ever despite concern over green energy policy changes.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Energy
Labor gas policy raises supply fears from Japan
The former head of one of Japan’s biggest energy companies says supply disruptions to Australian LNG would have a “huge impact” on millions across the country.
- Michael Smith
