This is not just about ‘taking the piss’, it is highway robery.
‘…gas companies are deliberately exporting enough gas to ensure the amount of gas available Australians remains tight in order to keep domestic prices high.’

Ney it’s pillage and rape level skulduggery.
‘Then they use the threat of these engineered “shortages” to pressure Australian governments to approve new gas projects, but since these projects are almost entirely for export, they wreck the environment but do nothing to help lower the prices paid by Australian households and businesses.’

read more
https://thepoint.com.au/explainers/260304-government-lets-big-gas-export-surplus-gas-to-fulfil-export-contracts-instead-of-supplying-australians

#AusPol #PRRT #DomesticGasReserveNow #ExtractiveIndustries #StateTheft #EatTheRich #Antifa

I hate to belabour the point… well, actually, no I don’t. But to put some perspective into Senator #DavidPocock defeated motion to set up a Senate Committee to take a look at #GasExports, here is an interesting article from The Point (Australian Institute) that should have been tabled in the Senate along with the motion (can you do that in the Senate? I don’t know) talking about: ‘New analysis shows Japan is emerging as a major player in global gas trading, despite producing no liquefied natural gas of its own – and it’s all thanks to Australia.’

https://thepoint.com.au/news/260302-japans-rise-as-an-lng-trader-driven-by-resale-of-cheap-australian-gas-reigniting-calls-for-gas-export-tax

#AusPol #TheGreatGasConspiracy #ExtractiveIndustries #StateTheft #TaxReformNow #antifa #EatTheRich #PRRT