Let Origin burn

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The risk that Queensland’s LNG producers will be forced to sacrifice exports to avoid shortages among local customers as a result of the federal gas price intervention has emerged as a threat to the proposed $18.4 billion takeover of Origin Energy.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.