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Queensland’s gas pipeline to the southern states is at capacity.

Labor set to make major intervention to keep gas in Australia

The government is under pressure to keep ailing smelters, concrete makers and plastics firms alive, as well as keep a lid on household power bills.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Meg O’Neill.

Trump wants to ‘drill, baby, drill’. This Australian giant is happy to help

Oil and gas giant Woodside is expanding in the US under its American chief executive. Over brunch in New York, Meg O’Neill explains why she thinks the climate conversation has fundamentally changed.

  • Michael Koziol
WA gas report tabled in parliament different from leaked version. Picture: WAtoday

Spot the difference: Leaked WA gas report changed before it was tabled in parliament

The report was tabled in parliament on Tuesday afternoon after the draft version, meant to be a confidential cabinet document, was leaked. But there are notable changes. 

  • Holly Thompson and Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook.

Un-democratic or vital? The laws granting WA’s premier massive power

The State Development Bill has emphatic backing from industry, which says it will improve WA’s flagging investment confidence, but has frightened conservation groups.

  • Hamish Hastie
Consumers are increasingly switching away from gas stoves and heaters to electric alternatives, aided by government schemes and policies banning gas hook-ups in new homes.

Gas giant used ‘greenwash’ ads to keep homes burning fossil fuel: ACCC

A major pipeline company is accused of cooking up an ad campaign overstating how soon homes could be using climate-friendly gas in a bid to protect its profits.

  • Nick Toscano
Prices for Australian cargoes of LNG in Asia have fallen from record levels.

Gas could be a bridge to nowhere on the energy road map

Coal and solar are threatening to upend the outlook for LNG, which is about to witness its third big wave of increased supply in 20 years.

  • Javier Blas
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Gold dore bars recently produced from Auric Mining’s second toll treating campaign at its Jeffreys Find gold mine near Norseman in WA.

Gold is becoming Australia’s second-biggest export, overtaking coal and LNG

Gold will become Australia’s second-most-valuable commodity export after the precious metal’s “extraordinary surge” to record prices this year, the government said.

  • Paul-Alain Hunt
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a $2.4 billion support package for the Whyalla steel mill.

Gas crisis threatens Whyalla rescue bid, steel giant warns

Australia’s top steelmaker has urged the Albanese government to stare down gas exporters and force them to cut prices if it wants to prevent factory closures.

  • Nick Toscano
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio.

Victoria pleads with rest of country to limit gas exports before forecast supply shortfalls

The Allan government says the state’s vast offshore gas fields are being drained faster by supplying the entire eastern seaboard for decades.

  • Kieran Rooney and Nick Toscano
Despite the rise of renewable energy, fossil fuels such as oil haven’t reached their sunset period yet.

The end of fossil fuel era? It’s nowhere near

 For the last few years, climate and energy policymakers have convinced themselves the world was inexorably moving away from fossil fuels. Breaking news: It is not.

  • Javier Blas

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