✍️ SIGN: Demand the gas industry pays royalties!
Gas corporations are supposed to pay a ‘royalty’ for the right to extract and sell public resources – resources like liquified natural gas.
Australia Institute research shows multinational gas export companies get over half of the gas they export from Australia royalty-free. The Treasury Department says they have never paid Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.
Australians are tired of rampant gas exports driving up power bills for Australian households and businesses.
Australians are tired of the gas industry not paying its fair share of taxes and royalties.
Australians are tired of endless excuses from governments who fail to stand up to the gas industry.
It has to end. We’re calling on the Australian Government to impose royalties on all gas extracted in Australia.
✍️ Add your name demanding the gas industry pays its fair share.
Big Gas is Taking the Piss
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Around 80% of Australia’s gas is exported as liquefied natural gas (LNG).
No royalties are paid on gas supplying major facilities owned by Chevron, Woodside (Pluto), Shell, Inpex and Santos
Australians are tired of rampant gas exports driving up power bills for Australian households and businesses.
Australians are tired of the gas industry not paying its fair share of taxes and royalties.
Australians are tired of endless excuses from governments who fail to stand up to the gas industry.
Big gas is taking the piss and Australian governments are letting them. It has to stop.
That’s why we’re calling on the Australian Government to ensure the gas industry pays their fair share by imposing royalties on all gas extracted in Australia.
Add your name to the petition!
To the Parliament of Australia –
The gas industry does not make a fair contribution to the Australian community.
Australia Institute research has found that 56% of gas exported from Australia attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free.
Over four years, multinational companies made $149 billion exporting gas they got for free.
If royalties had been charged on this gas, at least $13.3 billion in revenue could have been raised and used to increase living standards of Australians by funding schools, hospitals, renewable energy, and other needed public infrastructure.
Our governments should stop putting the interests of foreign owned gas companies ahead of Australians.
We call on the Australian Government to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia.