The Western Australia premier is in Japan and South Korea this week pitching the state as a key supplier of green energy for Asia.
| Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has reassured the bosses of Japan’s powerful trading houses that WA gas will continue to meet the country’s energy needs for decades despite the federal government’s intervention to shore up domestic supply.
“It [transition to green energy] can’t happen overnight. I’m a strong believer the world has to act on climate but when you see a city of 40 million people like this one, Tokyo, or Shanghai or Beijing, you absolutely know it is a process that is going to take some time,” Mr McGowan said. Mr McGowan also confirmed he planned to visit China later this year and welcomed improved diplomatic relations between Beijing and Canberra, which he expected would“Japan is our second-biggest trading partner and has been a significant trading partner since the 1960s. Much of Western Australian industry is built on Japanese customers and investors. China, of course, is also a major customer of ours. It is not like you have to pick one or the other. We have good relations with both,” he said.
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