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Labor will fail to meet key targets from the energy policy it took to the 2022 election, according to energy experts, after the party removed modelling from its website.

Energy infrastructure tsar Tony Mahar says green energy developers have a long way to go to meet farmers’ concerns and earn their trust.

The dominant source of gas to Australia’s east coast could be handed a lifeline after Exxon and Woodside approved a $350m drilling campaign to deliver new supplies from the Bass Strait.

The coal industry says the Albanese government is using incorrect costings to make key decisions about the nation’s energy mix and has singled out science body CSIRO for criticism.

There is a lot to unpack in the energy minister’s excuses to hide the fact that power price decreases ­promised by the Albanese government in opposition are a thing of the past.

Chris Bowen says the Coalition’s plan to keep coal in the system for longer will lead to even higher costs, backing Labor’s massive expansion of renewables despite business calls to slow it down.

Victoria sits on abundant gas reserves that could be enriching the state if suicidally stupid politicians from the Dan Andrews government, along with easily spooked members of the opposition, hadn’t changed the constitution.

Guyana President Irfaan Ali is exploring a partnership with Suriname to build a gas-powered industrial hub as he works to fortify his nation’s economy, which was rapidly transformed by oil fortunes in the past decade.

Tying energy policy to climate strategies has led to the looming east coast gas supply crisis, Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher has declared, as he called for Australia to follow the US example and decouple the two.

Big east coast gas users have laid out a blueprint for gas policy ­reforms, including a domestic ­reservation scheme, amid concern a plan for the commonwealth to underwrite LNG imports will ­entrench high prices for local ­industry.

Japan’s biggest buyer of LNG has threatened to take its business elsewhere, at the cost of thousands of jobs, unless urgent policy changes are made to fix Australia’s $70bn export industry.

Treasury has dramatically underestimated the lure of the FBT exemption for EVs, with taxpayers losing $560 million per year subsidising 100,000 electric car owners.