A report commissioned by the peak body for Australia’s clean energy industry says replacing renewables with nuclear energy would cause power prices to “explode”.
Adrian Rauso
Chevron’s $US53 billion ($79.6b) deal to buy Hess has received a nod of support from a major proxy advisory firm that says shareholders should vote in favour of it.
Crystal Tse
A $400 million steel recycling project has been approved for development, adding to a potentially multibillion-dollar pipeline of investment in the State’s coal heartland.
Matt Mckenzie
Laws aimed at curtailing ‘lawfare’ against major gas projects will be put on the backburner under a complex deal Labor has struck with the Greens.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Santos is giving the boot to about 200 employees — most of them based in Perth — and has pinned the blame on slow project approvals, a reason which Premier Roger Cook has cast doubt on.
The boss of Australia’s powerful oil and gas industry lobby has backed in a carbon capture and storage boom to help the country chase net zero.
Contractor Baker Hughes will relaunch an offshore drilling services business in Western Australia within weeks to work on a big pipeline of oil and gas activity.
Nationally, gas provides more than 40 per cent of energy used by manufacturers, and it is crucial to Australia’s net zero plan.
Samantha McCulloch
Oil and gas businesses will pay more than $17 billion in tax this financial year, an analysis by the industry lobby projects.
Santos chief Kevin Gallagher says the market has got its appetite back for Australian oil and gas deals while questioning the ‘fit’ of the company’s WA gas assets in its portfolio.
Simone Grogan
The Federal Government is showing signs it will change course on oil and gas policy but the multibillion-dollar industry wants a newly released strategy followed with action.
Seven Group managing director Ryan Stokes ‘wholeheartedly’ agrees with the Federal Government’s gas to 2050 strategy, and sees the energy investment thematic as underappreciated more broadly.
Broome is the latest Kimberley town to be connected to Horizon Power’s Smart Connect Solar technology.
Cain Andrews
Beach Energy boss Brett Woods has slammed contractor Clough for a “schoolboy error” which added delays to the Waitsia gas project getting into production.
A new report has revealed a significant portion of Australia’s Generation Z population has a negative attitude towards the mining industry.
Natasha Clark
A Victorian electricity distributor has been fined more than $2 million for failing to maintain vegetation under its powerlines, sparking a bushfire.
Adrian Black
Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill concedes she is disappointed with a pointed protest vote against her company’s climate strategy saying “a tonne of work” went into consulting shareholders.
A processing train at Chevron’s enormous Gorgon gas plant could be out of action for weeks after issues with a compressor.
Savvy households could lead Australia's transition to clean energy with solar panels, batteries and electric cars, a report has found, but reforms are needed.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
WA’s biggest energy users are stepping up the pressure to unlock gas fields off the coast which may otherwise be dormant in a bid to avoid a shortage.
Willy Packer, whose $2 billion investment fund has sunk more than $200 million into uranium, says the decision to base nuclear submarines at Garden Island effectively validates nuclear energy.
Sean Smith
How natural gas is offering an important “safety net” for Australia’s energy transition.
Australian Energy Producers
Premier Roger Cook has doubled down on comments made against two teenage climate protestors who have accused the Premier of defamation.
Dylan Caporn
In June 2022, the State Government announced its plan to close all state-owned coal-fired power stations by 2030 as part of a commitment to an 80 per cent emissions reduction target.
Kevin You & Rocco Loiacono