Queensland's industrial gas users are bearing the heaviest burden from the start of the state's $80 billion LNG export industry, with companies in the north of the state now paying more than double their peers in Melbourne for the fuel.Large industrial customers in north-west Queensland paid on average $11.97 a gigajoule for gas in 2015, compared to $5.68 in Victoria, a new report for the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has found. Industrial gas prices have been steadily rising in all states.
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Gas prices are rising in the north-west due to the new LNG Industry.
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