"The government is allowing Alcoa to do whatever they friggin want," according to a long-term campaigner for better regulation of WA's alumina refineries.
Equus Energy floated on the ASX in December 2025. Before that, it was called Western Gas: a small company that bought the Equus gas fields in the Carnarvon Basin from US company Hess in 2017 to develop an LNG project.
If Western Gas' Equus LNG project does not take off in these tough times neither the small company nor regulator NOPTA have an answer to how making safe the wells is paid for.
