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.
Carbon storage has gone from "high-risk" to the preferred option at the controversial gas export mega-project.
A massive oil spill and allegations of a cover-up have resulted in just a $10,000 fine for the $22 billion company.
The Parron wind farm could slash the carbon pollution from generating WA's power by one million tonnes a year.
Woodside will buy Chevron's one-sixth stake in the North West Shelf project and relinquish its stake in the Wheatstone LNG project to the US major.
A struggling deal between two companies will determine if an unused oil platform off the WA coast is used for carbon storage or needs to be decommissioned.
The Japanese energy giant is cherry-picking data to justify its gas growth plans.
The ten-year forecast stops short of when gas could become very scarce and expensive in Australia's most gas-dependent state.
Australia's largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace will test technology that could secure the future of Australia's largest export.
The US firm is cleaning up caustic liquid after a power loss and working to restore full production at its largest alumina refinery.
Concerns about possible damage to adjacent World Heritage-listed rock art from the plant's emissions did not sway environment minister Reece Whitby.
Australia's largest export has a problem - its low grade and high impurities make it unsuitable for producing low emissions iron and steel with current technology
The WA environment minister wanted to tackle bureaucrats "at the desk doing the same thing for 15 years, telling people why something can't be done."
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