'There was a bit of gaming': Prime Minister says gas companies took advantage of energy crisis
For now, he supported a continued intervention by AEMO, and said the energy situation would remain difficult.
"What we needed to do was to have a short-term measure in place, but also to make sure that we get that [renewables] investment, so that in the future we don't have these problems."West Australian Premier Mark McGowan said the east coast should follow his state's lead to introduce laws that would force companies to keep some of their supply onshore for domestic use.
"It just seems to me to be very strange that there's no gas for local people and yet we export boatload after boatload of gas overseas." "There's never a good time, but in light of what's going on in the eastern states, certainly I would have thought the best time to put something in place is now, when there is a crisis as we speak," he said.
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