Off-the-charts marine heat severely damages Ningaloo and other pristine coral reefs
Luck has run out for WA's coral reefs, with most under twice the level of heat stress that can kill coral. Climate change is the cause.
Kwinana
Kwinana, about 40km south of the centre of Perth, is home to most of WA's heavy industry.
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Westport bill may jump $1b to keep desalination plant working
Longer pipelines into Cockburn Sound must be built before port construction begins or 15 per cent of Perth's water supply will be lost.
Alcoa boss Oplinger: little chance of Kwinana refinery restart
Costly, complex, and with old technology, the 60-year-old alumina refinery that had employed 800 workers is unlikely to reopen.
Alcoa fined $400,000 for chemical burn to Kwinana school student
The 2022 incident is one of many at Alcoa's three refineries that are under an increased level of surveillance from the work safety regulator.
BP puts $1b Kwinana hydrogen and clean fuel projects on ice
The two projects will be "recycled" amid BP's concerns about costs and government policy.
Alcoa's Kwinana closure bill jumps by $131 million
The cost of managing water where it stores 140 million tonnes of caustic red mud has doubled.
BP puts brakes on Kwinana clean fuel plans
BP has stood down contractors working on its biofuel plant just weeks before discovering if its adjacent green hydrogen project will win $1 billion of government backing.
BHP, Rio and Woodside back green iron plant in Kwinana
Australia's largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace will test technology that could secure the future of Australia's largest export.