Issues

Key Positions

The Alliance’s work program is focused on promoting diversity, affordability and security of gas supply for consumers. The Alliance supports:

Strengthening the Retention Lease system to ensure gas fields that can supply the domestic market are developed and that producers do not withhold supply. Greater transparency in the assessment process is also needed to promote opportunity and third party participation.
Removing anti-competitive selling arrangements whereby major gas producers currently sell jointly as a cartel to local customers.
Promoting domestic gas exploration and development through Federal and State tax, royalty and investor incentives.
Promoting opportunities for third part ownership and multiple use mid-stream gas gathering and processing infrastructure to facilitate domestic gas development.
Ensuring that producers meet domestic supply obligations under the North West Shelf State Agreement.
Ensuring sufficient reserves of gas are set aside to meet the current and future needs of the community.
Promoting the need for a 2050 national energy security strategy that ensures long term supply of competitively priced gas for domestic users.
Encouraging the development of “tight gas” fields.
Facilitating and expediting approval processes for gas exploration and development.
Ensuring a national emissions trading scheme does not discriminate against domestic gas development and supply vis-à-vis LNG exports;
Ensuring that Australia’s international trade negotiations support, or at the very least do not undermine, the nation’s long term energy security.