đĄď¸ Who murdered the Murujuga rock art science?
Special Cluedoâ˘ď¸ edition đ Was it Mr Cook or Prof Smith?
⢠& green hydrogen and urea from gas get a boost in WA â˘
In the race to decarbonise iron ore shipping Rio and BHP are chasing incremental improvements with LNG while Andrew Forrest's Fortescue wants zero-emission green ammonia ASAP.
Vikas Rambal's Perdaman has surprised doubters by signing up Incitec Pivot to take the full output of his proposed Karratha urea plant.
WA will be home to two of the largest green hydrogen electrolysers in the world to feed an ammonia plant and inject the clean fuel into the South West gas grid.
There are rapidly escalating risks in global warming between 1.5â and 2â and the focus now must be on governmentsâ 2030 targets for emissions reduction.
If South32âs low profile coal-burning Worsley Alumina operated like Alcoaâs facilities 1.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year would be avoided: the same as Alcoa's Wagerup refinery.
⢠& Alinta pushes big wind to displace coal in WA â˘
Alinta's solution to soaring solar power in South West WA is more Mid-West wind farms backed with batteries and dispatchable gas.
Shell's production of millions of tonnes of carbon emissions by burning excess gas at Prelude LNG 400km off the WA coast will no longer go unnoticed, with satellites now tracking flaring across the globe.
Inpex pledged in January 2021 to cut its emissions 30 per cent this decade while it was planning to boost CO2 from Ichthys LNG, which accounts for three quarters of its carbon footprint, by 30 per cent.
Chevron's Wheatstone LNG is in the firing line of a new approach from the WA Environmental Protection Authority that forced big emissions cuts from the Waitsia gas project.
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