Tony Abbott transcript - Joint Doorstop Interview, Rockhampton
...where Tony Abbott expresses a belief that coal seam gas is needed to have affordable energy and fails to acknowledge the Liberal Party export-parity pricing policy that will see natural gas prices in Australia increase by about 500 percent, from a price similar to that in the United States to the price paid by natural gas importing countries such as Germany and Japan.See related post: Energy Prices and Policy in Australia
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| Natural Gas Prices Planned for Australia "Export Parity" in Red Bars, USA Price in Blue Bars |
26 February 2013
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TONY ABBOTT:
I want to congratulate the Newman Government for the way it has put the coal seam gas industry onto a more sustainable footing. We need to develop our resources. We need to have affordable energy, but we've got to extract that energy in ways which is fair to farmers and respects the environment and I think by the changes that Campbell has made, we do get a system of extraction which respects the environment and is much fairer to farmers.
QUESTION:
In WA, they’re making sure a certain amount of [inaudible] prices down. Should Campbell Newman do that in Queensland as well?
TONY ABBOTT:
... Really, what we need here in Queensland and in New South Wales for that matter and around the country more generally is more gas and if we've got more gas, we can keep power prices down and we can develop the industries which depend upon gas in order to flourish.
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