Letting onshore producers export up to 20% of their output aims to encourage more gas development, WA premier Roger Cook says
A gas flare at a Woodside North West shelf project. The WA government wants ‘a secure supply of gas as firming fuel in our system’.A gas flare at a Woodside North West shelf project. The WA government wants ‘a secure supply of gas as firming fuel in our system’.The Western Australian government has lifted a ban preventing onshore gas producers from exporting any of their gas, a move conservationists say will drive up greenhouse gas emissions.
The policy update would provide certainty for gas producers and users, he said, and encourage new onshore gas projects. “Gas is not a transition fuel, it’s a fossil fuel that is diverting investment away from renewable energy. There is no future with gas.”Rod Campbell, the research director at progressive thinktank the Australia Institute, suggested the government was bowing to pressure from producers to incentivise new projects. “The barbarians are at the gates of the WA domestic gas market and the WA government is throwing them the keys.
Campbell said: “This is the east coast gas policy mess all over again,” referring to concerns about gas supply in eastern states.
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