2017 Media Releases
Gas Energy Australia is committed to providing timely comment on current and emerging issues, and being responsive to media enquiries, as a vital conduit to the public. Media requests for comment or interviews should be directed to CEO Brett Heffernan...
December 2017
- Next generation LPG Autogas vehicle facility opened in Melbourne - Gas Energy Australia, the peak body for the downstream gaseous fuels industry, would like to congratulate Unigas, Prixcar and Sprint Gas on their joint...
November 2017
- GEA want Queenslanders to save up to $600 a year - Australia’s peak body for downstream gaseous fuels, Gas Energy Australia, has called on all Parties and Independents to commit to gaseous fuels - to...
- GEA supports ALP's plan to clean up Queensland islands - Australia’s peak body for downstream gaseous fuels, Gas Energy Australia, supports the need to shift Queensland’s offshore islands and resorts from...
October 2017
- Government's new power plan welcome along with more distributed energy - Gas Energy Australia, the peak body for the downstream gaseous fuels industry, welcomes the Government’s just announced National Energy Guarantee (NEG)....
- GEA backs call for Real World Driving Emissions Testing - Gas Energy Australia (GEA), the peak body for the downstream gaseous fuels industry, strongly supports the call for real world driving emissions testing...
July 2017
- Improving fuel efficiency and reducing pollutants remains essential - Australia’s peak body for downstream gaseous fuels today urged the Government to stay on-track working towards achieving its clean air agenda and not...
June 2017
- Queensland Government invests in future of gas industry - Australia’s peak body for downstream gaseous fuels this afternoon welcomed the Queensland Government’s announcement they would expand resource exploration...
- Finkel Report welcome but more thinking outside the electricity box needed - Gas Energy Australia welcomed today’s release of the Finkel Report into energy security as a step forward to Australia reducing its emissions and improving...
April 2017
- Australia's first commercial LNG marine bunkering - The peak body for the downstream gas industry has congratulated EVOL LNG and Woodside on completing the first commercial bunkering of cleaner, cheaper...
- Australia's first commercial LNG marine bunkering - The peak body for the downstream gas industry has congratulated EVOL LNG and Woodside on completing the first commercial bunkering of cleaner, cheaper...
March 2017
- Technology can strengthen Australia's gas advantage - Technology can strengthen the role Australian gas plays in the diverse energy mix beyond 2030 as outlined in a new vision to be launched today by the gas...
- Diversity in lower emitting energy way forward for Finkel - A submission to the Independent Review into the Future Security of the Electricity Market from Australia’s peak body for downstream gaseous fuels, says...
- Australia's first commercial LNG marine bunkering - The peak body for the downstream gas industry has congratulated EVOL LNG and Woodside on completing the first commercial bunkering of cleaner, cheaper...
February 2017
- Australian first with cleaner, greener ship of fuels - Monday 20 February 2017, EVOL LNG First Australian commercial LNG bunkering completed in WA’s north-west on 23 January 2017 by EVOL LNG for Woodside...
January 2017
- Greater use of Australian gaseous fuels would deliver more control over our future and budget savings - A Budget submission to the Turnbull Government from Australia’s peak body for downstream gaseous fuels, says these fuels can be part of the solution...
- Failure to harness gas robs Australia of jobs and lower emissions - Gas Energy Australia CEO John Griffiths, today welcomed the call from Federal Energy Minister Frydenberg for action to increase gas supply to protect local...