This Month
- Opinion
- Gas
Victoria is running out of gas and there is no easy fix
A gas-rich, wealthy country unable to supply gas to its major population centres is a massive policy failing. There is one “least-worst” solution.
- Tony Wood
October
Why BlueScope needs gas for green transition
BlueScope head of climate change Anna Matysek tells the AFR Energy & Climate Summit iron-making is the "highest abatement use case for gas".
- Updated
Broken planning system slows home approvals
Readers’ letters on how to speed up housing starts; subcontractors and developers; Anthony Albanese’s home purchase; gas for Japan; climate migration; and Scott Morrison’s space job.
Vic Liberals’ policy vacuum opens the door for teals
Readers’ letters on the infighting within Victoria’s opposition; federal Labor losing its way and running scared; gas supply; handouts for surgeons; and the value of mass genetic screening.
Homes in Albury, Gladstone to use gas-hydrogen blend
About 40,000 homes and businesses Albury-Wodonga will get 10 per cent hydrogen mixed in with their gas next year, in one bright spot for the clean hydrogen industry.
- Opinion
- Opinion
Chris Bowen has his own great gas gap to fill
The government has called out the Dutton nuclear plan’s interim reliance on gas. The trouble is that Labor has its own vulnerabilities.
- Samantha McCulloch
September
Gas ‘reality dawning’ for Victorian government, says exploration firm
Lakes Blue Energy chief operating officer Tim O’Brien has welcomed the Allan government’s public softening of its stance on gas.
- Gus McCubbing
August
Choke in gas supply makes imports, once unthinkable, almost inevitable
Falling production at a large plant and a forecast slide in supply from fields off the south-eastern coast is adding to the anxieties of major users.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Shell, PetroChina to expand huge Surat coal seam gas project
The investment, expected to cost billions of dollars, will supply export customers and the domestic market, where regulators have warned of looming shortages.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
June
- Updated
- Senex Energy
Labor delivers all-clear for $1b Rinehart-backed Senex gas project
The decision to grant environmental clearance for the Atlas development brings to an end an approvals process that has lasted almost two years.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Dutton leads us forward with nuclear power push
Letters from readers on Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy; the sale of gas to Japan; Labor’s code of conduct for supermarkets; and the damage caused by social media
- Exclusive
- Gas
Queensland approves new gas exploration
The state has awarded tenders for six petroleum and gas exploration areas across the Bowen and Surat basins as a gas crisis grips the country.
- James Hall
Skyrocketing gas prices intensify fears of shortage this winter
There are growing fears the long-forecast shortage in supplies in the south-eastern states will emerge this winter, hitting manufacturers hard.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Gus McCubbing
GyG’s winning bank; PM addresses gas risk; It’s Bullock v burritos
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Gas shortage warning exposes deep energy mess
Low wind power amid a cold snap is threatening to create a gas shortfall – exposing the effect of supply restrictions and jeopardising the Coalition’s nuclear ambitions.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Gus McCubbing
May
- Opinion
- Perth
Gas industry hawks its carbon credentials
Barrow Island and its inhabitants of kangaroos, perentie lizards and rare native fauna is also home to the world’s largest dedicated carbon capture and storage project.
- Jennifer Hewett
Voters like gas better than wind power but solar is still king
A slide in support for wind farms has allowed gas to become entrenched as the nation’s preferred energy source after solar, an AFR/Freshwater Strategy poll has found.
- Phillip Coorey
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