It is not getting a lot of coverage - but there is a world of financial pain coming for WA households if WA Labor agrees to extend the Woodside gas deal. And that's without the huge environmental cost. australiainstitute.org.au/post/north-w... - ThreadSky

amyremeikis.bsky.social • 80 days ago

It is not getting a lot of coverage - but there is a world of financial pain coming for WA households if WA Labor agrees to extend the Woodside gas deal. And that's without the huge environmental cost.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/north-west-shelf-extension-a-disastrous-deal-for-wa-households/

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gerardmazza.bsky.social•80 days ago

If people want to do something about this, they can contact their Labor reps via the Affordable Energy Alliance: https://www.affordableenergyalliance.org/dodgy-gas-deal

bushidle.bsky.social•80 days ago

#LaborMAGA cult keep these arseholes in government

unionrabble.bsky.social•80 days ago

West Australia shafted by the LNP/ALP duopoly - again!

ericbanana.bsky.social•80 days ago

Shocking … 😮

Australia needs regulation not polluting profit seekers.

marianami.bsky.social•80 days ago

It’s so dystopian that we have our planet burning in a climate crisis, in Aus we have cheap & easy renewables & world-leading knowledge to implement it; yet we stick to supporting and subsidising FF industry. The ppl, the future gen’s, all nothing compared to big-Miners pillaging us for profit

keithb-oz.bsky.social•80 days ago

Spot on. We're already in strife and above 1.5. Our only chance is to stop adding to the problem. The only way to do that is stop all fossil use immediately, significantly cut living standards and help poor nations relocate or give them renewables. Odds: millions : 1

crimsonfinch.bsky.social•80 days ago

The Woodside-Chevron Labor party™

dannyjackson.bsky.social•80 days ago

Sent you ATCO via Twitter

dannyjackson.bsky.social•80 days ago

WA already locked in for decades with Gas, ATCO has rolled out new gas domestic pipelines all over Perth thel last few years and its still happening, they came to my block of units and told us it was compulsory # check ATCO out Amy

wearytraveller.bsky.social•80 days ago

given the rest of the country is like this, of course they will

spillanemj.bsky.social•80 days ago

image how bad it’d be if they weren’t gifted a massive GST bonus

electricrabbit.bsky.social•80 days ago

You do know that WA still gets considerably less back in GST than it generates, right? And that it's still the lowest rate in the nation?

It's just that it's no longer allowed to get as low as the 30% it got to.

spillanemj.bsky.social•80 days ago

that’s not how GST works https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-04/annabel-crabb-on-western-australia-gst-tax-policy-politics/104304254

seb-gardener.bsky.social•80 days ago

Because it doesn’t need it

sallylawry.bsky.social•80 days ago

Will send this article to Roger Cook because it is news to me about price increases . Know the deal has changed . Cheers

sallylawry.bsky.social•80 days ago

I shall ask about this from my Labor MPs . Because it is news to me . I don’t like gas at all btw . Just read a post with a graph that West Australians are currently paying 3 times more for gas and electricity since Labor have been in power .That was news to me too

charlietoo.bsky.social•80 days ago

Is this true? I haven't noticed it. Sure it's not just another anti-labor beat up?

amyremeikis.bsky.social•80 days ago

Here is the full research report - it is not partisan, it's the facts: https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/P1759-Why-WA-energy-prices-have-tripled-Web.pdf

sallylawry.bsky.social•80 days ago

I just checked electricity bills for last 3 yrs . They have not gone up . Our gas bill came in today $127 for 3 months . I don’t like alarmist predictions unless they have been fact checked with the WA govt . I will do this

amyremeikis.bsky.social•80 days ago

The report and the explainer explain this -the state owned generation companies and long term contracts have so far absorbed the cost increase (which you still pay for via tax dollars, but it is not direct). If the 50 year expansion is allowed, you WILL see the price different in your household bill

sallylawry.bsky.social•80 days ago

https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/wa-domestic-gas-policy I shall keep my bills . I store them electronically. If I am still alive ( doubtful) in 3 yrs time I will get back to you 😊

amyremeikis.bsky.social•80 days ago

I hope you are and I look forward to it!

amyremeikis.bsky.social•80 days ago

Here is the report - but the increase in cost has not flowed through to households as yet because so far it is being absorbed by state owned corporations and long term contracts. That will stop, as the report makes clear. https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/P1759-Why-WA-energy-prices-have-tripled-Web.pdf

sallylawry.bsky.social•80 days ago

I will send this to the Premier’s office too . Thank you . https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/wa-domestic-gas-policy-response-parliamentary-inquiry https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/wa-domestic-gas-policy

sallylawry.bsky.social•80 days ago

Sent to Roger Cook’s office for comment. Did you actually speak to him ?

mickcartoons.bsky.social•80 days ago

Here be the answer (maybe) . . . . .

steveirons.bsky.social•80 days ago

@mickcartoons.bsky.social #cartoon Here be the answer (maybe) . . . . #alttext

healthbud.bsky.social•80 days ago

Wouldn’t expect anything less from Lamer…

pupfiction.bsky.social•80 days ago

A Labor government caving in to lobbying from gas companies and Kerry Stokes at the expense of energy consumers.
Vote for community independents. It’s the only way to stop the capture

dmackinnonau.bsky.social•80 days ago

Have to be careful that they are genuine independents. In Deakin the independents are often stooges put in to capture the votes of the disenchanted and direct preferences back to Michael Sukkar.

sofiaanniew.bsky.social•80 days ago

Amy can you please also cover the pathetic inaction on covid, we are still waiting on updated vaccines which have yet to arrive! Just one it’s Pfizer and nothing for immunocompromised folk. Honestly doesn’t anyone care it’s before Xmas! Same thing happened last year, it’s too bloody late!

sallydickson.bsky.social•80 days ago

I wonder how long these industries would last with no subsidies.

kenbuzzins.bsky.social•80 days ago

We know. But our Govt is controlled By Stokes and the Mining lobby. And we have no opposition party any more. I think it may be a dictatorship. Damn those cookers were right after all.

marciek.bsky.social•80 days ago

Interesting article by Niki Savva about Albos missteps. This is a major one and absolutely disastrous for environment.

brendon1052.bsky.social•80 days ago

Australia is part of the Western mafia alliance. WA labor has no choice.

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