The federal government declared “the road to net zero runs through Australia’s resources sector”,and Rinehart will be hoping for a decent spoonful from the profit pot at the end of that road.
Shipments of its key commodity iron ore fell over the past three months as bad weather disrupted Rio’s ports,the mining giant said.
America’s national security and the health of the planet depended on commodities managed by Australia,Caroline Kennedy told Paydirt Battery Minerals Conference in Perth.
Australia is about to join the protectionist wave sweeping through major economies with its “Future Made in Australia” scheme. History suggests we shouldn’t.
While companies welcomed the budget boost promised to keep green tech in Australia,economist Saul Eslake says it will weaken the economy.
Australia’s only integrated producer and refiner of natural graphite says it will avoid the meltdown roiling the nickel and lithium sector.
Half of the 10 most shorted stocks on the ASX are involved in battery minerals or electrification as investors become increasingly bearish on the sector.
WA’s troubled nickel sector is pleading for government help to withstand a price slump caused by booming production from Indonesia.
Australian Vanadium Limited,which has a plant in Perth’s northern suburbs,wants to ride the next big energy storage wave after lithium.
A submersible buoy to harvest wave energy,superheated graphite alloy blocks,vanadium flow batteries,and compressed air generators are trying to solve the problem of storing renewable energy in the grid.
Chinese automaker BYD is poised to surpass Tesla as the new worldwide leader in fully electric vehicle sales.