{"id":751450,"date":"2026-06-21T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751450\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:00:10","slug":"east-coast-gas-crisis-how-state-government-policies-and-new-export-mandates-are-threatening-investment-and-supply-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751450\/","title":{"rendered":"East coast gas crisis: How state government policies and new export mandates are threatening investment and supply security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s gas market is governed by an irony. Despite our status as one of the world\u2019s biggest producers and exporters of gas, our east coast is locked in a fight for the commodity due to state government policies that have stymied the region\u2019s capacity to secure local supply.<\/p>\n<p>The squeeze in gas comes after years of struggle by producers in the south-east to develop new projects, hindered by Labor\u2019s intervention on gas prices and government moratoriums (belatedly lifted) on gas development and exploration in both Victoria and NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s gas market is governed by an irony. Despite our status as one of the world\u2019s biggest producers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-751450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}