BETRAYAL: WA Labor signs off on Woodside’s dodgy gas deal

Woodside’s North West Shelf facility.

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.

As research from The Australia Institute shows, Woodside hasn’t identified supply to fill up its export capacity, and the North West Shelf extension put’s WA’s domestic gas market at risk.

Woodside is running out of gas from its offshore fields, and will need to tap into WA’s onshore gas fields to fill its capacity.

This is another step in the process of WA Labor undermining Western Australia’s gas reservation policy.

Back in 2020, former WA premier Mark McGowan gave an exemption to allow gas from the Waitsia field to be exported through the Burrup Hub — and since then, wholesale energy prices have tripled.

Earlier this year, McGowan’s successor, Roger Cook, allowed more of Western Australia’s onshore gas to be exported.

Now, WA Labor are locking in decades more of gas exports for Woodside and high gas prices for Western Australians.

The Federal government still need to give their approval for Woodside’s development to go ahead. Defend your right to Affordable Energy: Email Anthony Albanese and your local Labor MP to tell them they must back out of their dodgy gas deal with Woodside.