Energy shortage fears prompt minister to pump up new gas projects

Energy shortage fears prompt minister to pump up new gas projects

Federal Resources Minister says new gas production projects in NSW,Victoria would be optimal solution to gas shortages.

  • byMike Foley

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From Holden cars to a $6.3b project:Vikas Rambal’s WA adventure

From Holden cars to a $6.3b project:Vikas Rambal’s WA adventure

The Indian engineer arrived in Perth wanting to check out cars and perhaps build a solar farm. The stakes quickly got bigger.

  • byPeter Milne
Minister in talks with gas exporters to lock in local supplies

Minister in talks with gas exporters to lock in local supplies

Australia’s gas exporters are edging closer to a deal with the Albanese government that would boost supplies and help temper fears of looming shortages.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
Energy suppliers see demand for gas imports in race to avert shortfall

Energy suppliers see demand for gas imports in race to avert shortfall

Fresh warnings of energy shortages could lift demand for gas imports despite Australia being one of the world’s top producers of LNG.

  • byNick Toscano
Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Gas users are in danger of winter shortfalls sooner than originally feared as ExxonMobil and Woodside’s Bass Strait production fields dry up.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
Company group behind NSW offshore gas plan yet to clean up abandoned wells in WA
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Company group behind NSW offshore gas plan yet to clean up abandoned wells in WA

A company seeking to drill for gas off the NSW coast and another with abandoned wells in WA are both owned by a firm with questions over its financial viability.

  • byPeter Milne
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Audacious bid to dump old oil rigs on Bass Strait sea floor

Audacious bid to dump old oil rigs on Bass Strait sea floor

Enough material to build 110 Sydney Harbour Bridges is built into Australian offshore oil and gas rigs,and experts are now grappling with how to safely recover it.

  • byBianca Hall
‘Makes no sense’:Whitby lashes nuclear power

‘Makes no sense’:Whitby lashes nuclear power

WA’s Energy Minister Reece Whitby is no fan of nuclear energy,deeming it “expensive,slow,inflexible and unpopular”. Nor is the leader of the WA Liberals.

  • byPeter Milne andHamish Hastie
Review ordered into green legal group over bid to halt Santos’ gas project

Review ordered into green legal group over bid to halt Santos’ gas project

Australia’s largest environmental legal centre faces an external review after a judge determined it had coached Indigenous witnesses and confected evidence.

  • byNick Toscano
Australia’s LNG shipments slump for the first time in years

Australia’s LNG shipments slump for the first time in years

An eight-year growth streak for LNG exporters that made Australia one of the world’s biggest shippers of the fossil fuel has come to an end.

  • byNick Toscano
Appliance boss fires up,blames state gas policy for factory closure

Appliance boss fires up,blames state gas policy for factory closure

An Albury factory boss has attacked the state government’s “reckless” move away from gas,saying he has been forced to relocate 120 jobs.

  • byKieran Rooney