Samantha McCulloch

Oct 7, 2024 | afr.com | Samantha McCulloch

Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen raised some important questions recently about where the investment and gas supply Australia needs to avoid looming shortfalls is going to come from. Writing in The Australian Financial Review, Bowen correctly highlighted that the Australian gas market is facing a cumulative gas supply-demand deficit of 3300 petajoules to 2035. Loading...

Jul 29, 2024 | afr.com | Samantha McCulloch

The growing list of warnings from independent energy regulators about looming gas shortfalls in Australia, and the urgent need for investment in new gas supply, seems to finally be sinking in with governments.

May 12, 2024 | thewest.com.au | Samantha McCulloch

The Australian Government’s Future Gas Strategy released this week puts beyond any doubt that natural gas has a critical, long-term role in Australia’s energy security and net zero economy to 2050 and beyond. The strategy released by Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King last week also makes it clear that Australia needs investment in new gas supply to ensure Australian households and businesses, and our trade partners, continue to have reliable and affordable energy.

Jan 17, 2024 | afr.com | Samantha McCulloch

Community conned by EDO agendaI congratulate you for providing a well-written opinion by Samantha McCulloch (January 17). If I were a shareholder in Santos, which I’m not, I would be extremely cranky that lies by a government-funded organisation, the Environmental Defenders Office, would cost me considerable dividends – in addition to contributing to this sham organisation as a taxpayer. It is unfortunate that the local community got conned by the EDO’s agenda.

Jan 15, 2024 | afr.com | Samantha McCulloch

As is often the case, the EDO was more focused on stopping the project than protecting cultural heritage. On this occasion, the EDO’s tactics to prosecute their agenda have been exposed. As Justice Charlesworth did in her judgment, this disgraceful behaviour must be called out. It is breathtaking reading. She outlined that the evidence does not satisfy her that the cultural mapping exercise was “indigenous led” and that it “distorted and manipulated” the traditional owners’ instructions.