Mines Department blasts holes in Alcoa’s jarrah forest care claims
Endangered cockatoos - 105,000 exploration holes a year - insecure offsets: WA’s mining regulator has questions for the US miner.
Most gas in Western Australia is produced offshore and exported as LNG, with some reserved for domestic use. Production from the onshore Perth Basin is increasing. WA is the most gas-dependent state in Australia.
Safety record ignored, poor shareholder returns, Woodside under investigation for breaching federal environmental law, and questions unanswered.
The 250 MW station is set to open in 2029, when coal-fired generation ends in South West WA, but new gas turbines are increasingly hard to get.
A union leader said it was horrifying to see management receive full marks for personal safety after incidents almost tripled in four years.
The idea is one of many around Australia that would delay the cost of decommissioning old infrastructure.
Whether Australia's oldest gas export plant - the North West Shelf - can operate until 2070 has become a political hot potato.
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.
Australia's largest oil and gas company has trimmed its dividend after underlying profit was dragged down by lower prices.
Local industy in Australia's largest gas-exporting state is concerned gas producers are prioritising exports at their expense.
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.
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.
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