The WA environment regulator opposed Alcoa’s mining but proposed safeguards if it went ahead. The Cook government ignored the first recommendation and watered down the second.
Alcoa’s troubled bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forest will have extra government scrutiny costing $10.5 million over four years as the US miner seeks to repair its tarnished environmental credentials.
WA’s biggest coal miner Premier Coal has returned to profit after an $84 million loss the year before on the back of increased prices for its fuel sales.
The torrent of cheap nickel from Indonesia has claimed more Australian jobs with Canadian miner First Quantum to put its WA mine into care and maintenance.
The expansion will let the state’s biggest power grid store midday solar power for use in the evening,and will make it Australia’s largest energy storage site.
Australia’s largest oil and gas company has been hit with an unprecedented investor uprising demanding greater action on climate change.
A study into the mental health of FIFO workers called for them to spend no more than half their time on site. Six years on,WA’s mining sector appears to have listened.
From Albany to Kalbarri,native vegetation which has evolved to cope with heat and little water is failing to withstand the extra burden from climate change.
Meg O’Neill says the energy major is working to reduce its emissions but warns it’s not going to be easy or cheap.
The first physical evidence that Tasmanian Devils once lived in the Pilbara is among the ‘mind-blowing’ finds made by in what is left of a rock shelter blasted by Rio Tinto in 2020.
Woodside chair Richard Goyder has written a last-minute letter to investors ahead of a vote next week on his own position and the company’s plans for climate change.