Saturday’s state election is unlikely to unseat Labor premier Roger Cook but, with both major parties supporting gas expansion, WA’s record threatens any national progress on emissions
Western Australia is as vast as western Europe, has fewer people than Wales and is one of the most remote places on Earth. Globally, it punches above its weight in mining and shipping iron ore and, increasingly over the past decade, fossil fuels. Specifically, gas.
WA exports more liquefied natural gas than every country bar the US and Qatar, according to government data.
