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How the gas industry lost its way

Gas can only maintain public support as a fuel if some of it is replacing coal here – not overseas.

Colin BarnettColumnist

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As someone who has been a supporter of the gas industry over three decades, both in the domestic market and in exported liquified natural gas, I now wonder whether gas is losing its way.

I also wonder if the industry fully understands that the game has changed. Already the public relations battle has been lost with gas now routinely lumped in with coal as a ‘nasty’ fossil fuel.

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Colin Barnett is a former premier of Western Australia.

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