With friends like these, Aussie manufacturing sure doesn’t need enemies:
Major energy users have sensationally blamed former Dow Chemical chief executive Andrew Liveris for promoting the unrealistic idea among manufacturers that they should be able to buy gas for $4 a gigajoule and contributing to the current gas crisis on the east coast.
Andrew Richards, chief executive of the lobby group Energy Users Association of Australia, told a gas conference in Sydney that a $4/GJ price – suggested by the Mr Liveris-led manufacturing taskforce set up during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 – was “never going to happen”.
