Bill Oplinger reassured investors that a 15-month delay would not affect operating rates at its Pinjarra alumina refinery but misled them about Alcoa's record of rehabilitating the jarrah forest.
Several big green hydrogen projects have been shelved. An expert explains why Australia’s sky-high ambition for the industry is struggling to reach fruition.
The WA environment regulator is investigating unknown amounts of hydrocarbons rising to the surface on the Class A nature reserve.
Woodside's Scarborough gas project will export gas through an expanded Pluto LNG plant.
Doctors for the Environment Australia wants the Federal Court to review whether regulator NOPSEMA properly reviewed the climate impact of the $20 billion project.
Woodside is now chasing investors in its $US12B Scarborough to Pluto LNG project, but they need to look beyond the headline number.
Buying BHP’s Australian oil and gas assets could allow Woodside to escape its lost decade, but its shareholders and Australian taxpayers should count their fingers after the handshake.
Woodside's Pluto net-zero 2050 plan is greenwashing, leaving 70% of cuts to the last five years despite investors telling CEO Meg O'Neill they want tangible speedy progress.
On the occasion of recent WA treasurer Ben Wyatt joining the Woodside board Boiling Cold reviews the top 10 wins for Woodside from WA Labor's first term.
BHP's climate target excludes the Bass Strait, North West Shelf and future Scarborough LNG on the incorrect basis that the operator controls the emissions, not the joint owners.
For Woodside, it is Scarborough or bust. Incredibly the LNG specialist has no plan B ready if its last chance to develop an LNG project evaporates. And Scarborough is no sure thing.
The next Woodside chief executive will be the first to decide what to do apart from gas. Low-profile BHP Petroleum head Geraldine Slattery is a lead contender to take charge of this pivotal WA company.
Woodside wants to sanction its $US11.4 billion Scarborough LNG project in 2021, but a legal challenge to regulatory approval for years of carbon emissions could put it in a two-year legal limbo.
The Conservation Council has launched legal action against Woodside and the WA Government that may reopen environmental approvals essential to the Scarborough and Browse LNG projects.
With only one growth option Woodside is selling Scarborough LNG hard, but is it a sensible investment in a world moving to tougher action on climate?
Tomorrow Peter Coleman must convince investment analysts that Woodside has a credible growth plan with Scarborough LNG, and that will take more than spin about a few approvals.
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