Daniel Andrews has clapped back at the federal resources minister after she suggested that Victoria should lift moratoria on some of its gas fields.
Ms King on Wednesday highlighted that dwindling Bass Strait production was a key cause of looming shortages.
“Well, they are right to say that the Bass Strait is depleting, and the southern states have enjoyed that gas for many years. It comes off the back of oil production,” she told the ABC on Wednesday.Ms King said there were other possibilities for gas production in Victoria, including in the Otway Basin in the state’s south-west, “that are extensions of current sites”.
When these comments were put to Mr Andrews, he said there were no known or probable onshore reserves that could be conventionally extracted in the state. He then called on Ms King to implement a national gas reserve. “But we shouldn’t have to compete against the rest of the world for something that comes out of our ground and our seabed.
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