Australia Energy Transition: Gas Reservation Fuels Manufacturing Hope, Wind Farms Change Hands, and Coal's Latrobe Valley Faces Twilight

Labor's gas reservation policy is back from the dead. From July 2027, LNG exporters on the east coast will be forced to divert up to 20% of their shipments to the domestic market, a move that could resurrect shuttered factories like Coogee Chemicals' methanol plant in Laverton. The plant went dark in 2016 when gas prices skyrocketed from $3 to over $8 a gigajoule following the Queensland LNG boom, and this policy shift now offers a lifeline for gas-intensive...