Woodside slammed for preventable offshore decommissioning incidents
Regulator NOPSEMA has directed Woodside to properly plan its work after a series of preventable safety incidents off the WA and Victorian coasts.
After many recent setbacks for green hydrogen a huge WA project now looks more likely.
Any further delay would enrage the oil and gas industry, but process shortcuts could lead to any approval being challenged in court.
More LNG from Qatar and the US is expected to make the 2030s a buyers market.
The $13 billion company will just get a warning letter for secretly creating "an unacceptable risk to drinking water quality."
Roger Cook granting Alcoa greater access to mine near Perth's dams risks could cost taxpayers billions of dollars and result in water restrictions
The Liberals predict by 2027 WA's south-west power system will be on the verge of collapse but Labor is confident that batteries, wind and gas will come to the rescue.
Within weeks, the US miner will reveal for public comment plans to strip mine 75 square kilometres of jarrah forest.
The two projects will be "recycled" amid BP's concerns about costs and government policy.
The south-west grid shattered numerous records in late 2024 as new batteries and more rooftop solar replaced unavailable coal-fired power.
Local industy in Australia's largest gas-exporting state is concerned gas producers are prioritising exports at their expense.
The cost of managing water where it stores 140 million tonnes of caustic red mud has doubled.
BP has stood down contractors working on its biofuel plant just weeks before discovering if its adjacent green hydrogen project will win $1 billion of government backing.
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