Glitch shuts Australia's biggest maker of vital fertiliser input for two months
The shutdown of the Yara Pilbara plant comes as a quarter of global trade in ammonia, used for urea fertiliser and mining explosives, is blocked by war.
Domestic gas, or domgas, in WA comes from gas LNG producers are required to reserve for the local market and smaller domestic gas-only projects.
With WA's days of cheap and abundant gas coming to a close, the chances of onshore gas being exported are shrinking fast.
Rising gas prices resulting in job losses are inevitable unless the WA government mandates more supply from gas exporters.
Woodside's Pluto project is delivering a tiny sliver of gas to WA compared to other exporters, but the Domgas Alliance wants to change that.
Australia's most gas-dependent state has flipped from promising cheap abundance to facing expensive shortages in just six years: investors beware.
Alcoa, Wesfarmers and other big gas users in WA want Woodside to deliver what it agreed with the state government.
Chevron's disregard for requirements to use WA labour where practical, and to insist its contractors do the same, has been blasted in WA's Parliament.
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 ten-year forecast stops short of when gas could become very scarce and expensive in Australia's most gas-dependent state.
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.
WA energy minister Bill Johnston sees no current alternative to gas for dispatchable power and wants to use low prices to lure more gas-hungry investments to WA
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