Victoria doesn’t need new fossil gas infrastructure

New gas infrastructure locks in emissions, but more is planned. Victoria is building renewable energy capacity and driving down gas demand, but not fast enough. Much more could be done to meet our energy needs, but politicians worry about the power of fossil-fuel corporations and are trapped in the logic of ‘markets are best’

Useful overviews

• The rocky road to net zero: towards a gas-free Victoria How ecological economics can use the Systems of Provision approach. Presentation to Ecological Economics conference. Oct 2024. Powerpoints (3 authors)

• Towards a fast pathway from gas in Victoria. Dec 2021. Powerpoints (4 authors)

• Pipelines to a nowhere future. Submission. Feb 2022. 26 pages (lots of useful info here!)

• Viva’s proposal in context: Victoria’s energy needs & policy directions, industry governance and alternative corporate strategies - Powerpoint presentation July 2022 31p

• Gas Futures - proposals for concerned groups and individuals to present to their MPs and the Victorian Government. Nov 2021. 2p

• Victoria - processing physical flow and storage of fossil gas. November 2021. 6p

• Gas winter demand and critical planning processes. November 2021. 5p

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Below the submissions, find a book chapter, articles and notes on actions for councils, regulators, gas for hot water, a just transition

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More submissions - 2021 - 2024

• ESC draft decisions on Gas Distribution System Code of Practice Dec 2023 4p

• Future national gas strategy - Nov 2023 4p

• Proposals for 2023 budgets of Commonwealth and Victorian Governments on gas demand reduction Mar 2023 2p

• Gas Tariff Review (AER) June 2023 2p

• Gas Distribution System Code of Practice (ESC) May 2023 6p

• Incorporating an Emissions Reduction Objective
  in the National Energy Objectives (SEO) Feb 2023 2p

• Distributor’s Access Arrangements 2023-2028 (AER) Feb 2023 2p

• Distributors’ Access Arrangements 2023-2028 (AER) Sept 2022 3p

• Unaccounted for Gas Benchmarks Review (ESC) Nov 2022 2p

• Renewable Energy Targets (Vic) June 2022 3p

• Hydrogen & National Regulatory Framework (AEMC) May 2022 6p

• Viva Gas Import Terminal - Environmental Effects Statement - April 2022. 4p

• AEMO - Forecasting Assumptions Update of December 2021 - February 2022. 7p

• Renewable Energy Inquiry - Vic Parliament (powerpoint slides) - October 2021

• Petroleum Regulations - September 2021

• EES for Western Outer Ring Main Gas Pipeline - August 2021

• Gas Infrastructure 2050 - August 2021

• Gas Substitution Roadmap - July 2021

Actions for councils and communities

These ideas and questions are to spur on actions by councils and communities to reduce use of household gas. September 2020. 2 pages

Regulators failing to reduce gas demand

Insights into how the gas industry is and isn’t regulated, and how regulators ignore demand. Arena Online. October 2020. 3 pages

How can we transition the fossil gas industry?

Ending use of gas and a just transition for workers. Briefly explains the industry, its associations and workers, and the role of state support. Published in Chain Reaction #138 May 2020. 4 pages

Gas in hot water

Getting gas out of the hot water service is key to ending the gas industry’s stranglehold over household gas use. Forthcoming in Chain Reaction. Co-authored. July 2020. 4 pages

Fossil gas is explosive, leaky and increasingly dirty

Outlines multiple reasons for getting off gas, and urges the environmental movement to push for system change. Published in Arena Online Magazine. June 2020. 2 pages

Just transition to a sustainable future without ‘fossil’ gas

This book chapter explores how natural gas is interwoven with our economic system, failures in government regulation, who the workers are and their need for a just transition. It draws on ecological economics to argue for a very different economy.

Published in: Washington, H. (ed.). 2020. Ecological Economics: Solutions Now and in the Future. Sydney: ANZSEE. 2020. 15 pages.

Divesting from fossil gas by households and local businesses

This note highlights how use of fossil gas can be cut at a local level. Momentum can be built for rapid change if councils and climate action groups work in concert with residents, workers, businesses and other interest groups. Written February 2020. 2 pages

Energy futures for Australia

How do humanists grapple with how rapid social change affects displaced workers? How do we also reckon with the sway of big energy corporations that may employ few or many? Published in Victorian Humanist newsletter April 2020. 1 page