For 44 years, Australia has subsidised diesel use. Is it time to stop?
Australian taxpayers pay $5 billion a year to miners, including highly profitable giants like BHP.
Urea is the dominant fertiliser for broadacre farming in Australia, adding nitrogen to the soil. It is manufactured from ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Strike Energy's Stuart Nicholls regards the WA gas market as a dangerous place to be as new cheap supply comes in as the big resource players prepare to move away from fossil fuels.
Vikas Rambal's Perdaman has surprised doubters by signing up Incitec Pivot to take the full output of his proposed Karratha urea plant.
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