Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has called for the NSW, Victorian and federal governments to fund a gas pipeline from Queensland to southern states to ease power price pressures.
The Albanese government is considering gas market spot price caps and potential subsidies in a bid to curb rising retail power bills.
The Queensland premier has rejected those ideas, saying NSW, Victoria and the Commonwealth should foot the bill for a new pipeline connecting gas fields in her state to southern markets.
Palaszczuk says Queensland has “an abundance of gas”, with reserves totalling 13,000 petajoules in the Bowen Basin and further reserves in the Galilee Basin….