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Roger Cook’s WA Labor government has today signed off on a 50-year extension to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export facility at the Burrup Hub.
That means decades more of exporting WA gas exports — putting WA’s energy affordability at risk.
Back in 2020, WA Premier Mark McGowan gave Beach Energy, a company largely owned by his buddy Kerry Stokes, an exemption from the state’s domestic gas reservation policy. For the first time, West Australian onshore gas was allowed to be exported overseas through Woodside’s North West Shelf facility at the Burrup Hub.
New research from The Australia Institute shows that since the WA Labor opened up onshore gas exports, the state’s energy prices have tripled.
