Coalition colleagues urge Malcolm Turnbull to head off energy crisis

Prime minister told to adopt a domestic gas reservation policy to deal with forecast LNG shortages

The prime minister is under mounting internal pressure to adopt a domestic gas reservation policy to deal with forecast shortages. The chairman of the government's backbench committee on energy and the environment, Craig Kelly, has said it is something Malcolm Turnbull should consider.

With Turnbull due to meet senior executives from the east coast gas companies on Wednesday, Kelly told Guardian Australia the government needed to be open to adopting a reservation policy to ensure that a looming lack of gas supply did not create a full-blown energy crisis.