Biggest climate revolt rocks Woodside as investors turn up heat on emissions

Biggest climate revolt rocks Woodside as investors turn up heat on emissions

Australia’s largest oil and gas company has been hit with an unprecedented investor uprising demanding greater action on climate change.

  • byNick Toscano andPeter Milne

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Mental health behind WA miners’ move towards more even-time FIFO rosters

Mental health behind WA miners’ move towards more even-time FIFO rosters

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.

  • byPeter Milne
Drying and dying:South West forests face potential ‘collapse’

Drying and dying:South West forests face potential ‘collapse’

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.

  • byPeter Milne
‘Upfront,credible and honest’:Woodside boss spruiks climate plan ahead of crucial AGM
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‘Upfront,credible and honest’:Woodside boss spruiks climate plan ahead of crucial AGM

Meg O’Neill says the energy major is working to reduce its emissions but warns it’s not going to be easy or cheap.

  • byPeter Milne
Tasmanian Devil tooth among ‘mind-blowing’ finds in destroyed Juukan Gorge cave

Tasmanian Devil tooth among ‘mind-blowing’ finds in destroyed Juukan Gorge cave

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.

  • byPeter Milne
Goyder appeals to Woodside shareholders to back climate plan

Goyder appeals to Woodside shareholders to back climate plan

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.

  • byPeter Milne andNick Toscano
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Forrests’ $10 billion Minderoo charity to slash 100 jobs

Forrests’ $10 billion Minderoo charity to slash 100 jobs

About a third of the employees at Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo charity will lose their jobs as chief executive John Hartman looks to spend less of its more than $10 billion bounty on administration.

  • byPeter Milne
Perth Uber drivers start five-day strike with Friday airport blockade

Perth Uber drivers start five-day strike with Friday airport blockade

Friday night could be chaotic for many as about 4000 ride-share drivers plan to stay home with another 500 of them intending to blockade Perth’s airport.

  • byPeter Milne
Forget FIFO – new mine near Perth would offer 500 DIDO jobs

Forget FIFO – new mine near Perth would offer 500 DIDO jobs

Chalice Mining could have 500 local workers producing numerous metals needed for the energy transition,under plans currently with the EPA.

  • byPeter Milne
Shares crash over building delays and cost blowout at troubled WA gas plant
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Shares crash over building delays and cost blowout at troubled WA gas plant

Beach Energy shares plummeted in early trading on Monday,with its chief executive conceding extreme disappointment over quality issues in the late-stage WA project.

  • byPeter Milne
Woodside and Pilbara fertiliser plant look at storing emissions underground

Woodside and Pilbara fertiliser plant look at storing emissions underground

Woodside and Norway’s Yara are targeting injecting more than one million tonnes of carbon emissions a year under the seabed off the Pilbara coast.

  • byPeter Milne