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.

One thing we know is the more gas that foreign-owned gas companies are allowed to export, the less is reserved for us here at home. That means our gas prices go up, and the gas companies selling that gas to us make more profits.

Now, we also know that the WA Labor Government is basically bought and paid for by the gas industry.

But recently, there was a Parliamentary Inquiry into WA’s gas reservation policies.

State and Federal Labor governments are about to do a dodgy deal that will deliver more gas exports for Woodside while Australian families and businesses get ripped off with higher energy prices.

If approved by Labor, the North West Shelf extension at the Burrup Hub will allow Woodside to export massive amounts of gas from onshore gas fields that have previously been reserved only for use by Australian homes and businesses.

New research from The Australia Institute shows that Labor’s dodgy gas deal with Woodside would increase energy prices in Western Australia.