Gas crisis
Fracking, coal seam gas ‘not legal any time soon’, Andrews insists
The Victorian premier hit back at Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King’s suggestion that the state’s ban on fracking was a barrier to fixing the energy crisis.
- by Josh Gordon
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Electricity
Energy market suspended after chaos made it ‘impossible to operate’
The market operator has moved to regain control of a volatile situation and reduce the risk of electricity blackouts.
- by Mike Foley
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Energy
Victoria has ‘adequate’ power supply but clouds loom over gas reserves
The Andrews government has insisted the state has sufficient energy supply, but it has been warned that Victoria faces a potential gas shortage as early as next winter.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Opinion
Energy
Could the east coast’s gas crisis prove to be an opportunity for WA?
There’s nothing ‘national’ about the gas crisis currently unfolding on Australia’s east coast.
- by Gareth Parker
Opinion
Energy
Power struggle: The world’s energy crisis could get worse
If the West and EU hold their lines on Russian energy, the oil and gas crunch now being experienced around the world probably isn’t a temporary phenomenon - and it could deepen.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Government ‘not ruling anything out’ as it calls gas crisis meeting
State and federal ministers will meet on Wednesday to discuss solutions to the gas crisis as they look to protect local manufacturing from supply shortages.
- by Angus Thompson, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Lucy Cormack
Queensland has done the ‘heavy lifting’ for Australia in producing gas
“The problem has been in other states who haven’t been producing gas and that’s now created a problem, for southern states in particular,” Queensland’s Treasurer Cameron Dick said.
- by Cloe Read
‘A lot of cold days’: Nationals Leader concedes gas trigger no short-term solution
The federal government has been called on to activate the so-called gas trigger as energy prices soar and gas reserves are put at risk, but both sides say it’s not the solution.
- by Angus Thompson
Opinion
Energy prices
The war footing required to save us from the energy crisis
Mobilisation, co-ordination, trade-offs, strategic goals and some very tough decisions all need to be made to help the country through the immense energy affordability crisis it’s facing.
- by Innes Willox
Shell gets green light to restart giant Prelude LNG vessel off WA coast
Shell has got the all-clear to restart its $24 billion project three months after a fire triggered a cascade of failures that shut down systems vital to the welfare of nearly 300 crew.
- by Peter Milne
Opinion
World markets
Markets and the global economy face an explosive moment
Financial markets were already anxious about raging inflation. It’s starting to dawn on investors that the implications of a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be even more dire.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz