Oil giant plans to move 60,000 tonnes of steel,rig waste to UN-listed wetlands

Oil giant plans to move 60,000 tonnes of steel,rig waste to UN-listed wetlands

ExxonMobil says it will recycle and repurpose 95 per cent of the material from offshore oil and gas platforms,but the plan has fishers and environmentalists worried.

  • byBianca Hall

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Views split on Woodside’s climate stance as investor vote looms

Views split on Woodside’s climate stance as investor vote looms

The company’s credibility will be put to the test this month when backers have their say on its emissions plan and the future of chairman Richard Goyder.

  • byNick Toscano
‘Sheen’ in water:Ageing oil pipeline off Gippsland coast shut off as leak probed
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‘Sheen’ in water:Ageing oil pipeline off Gippsland coast shut off as leak probed

A pipeline linking two oil platforms is being investigated as the source of a suspected hydrocarbon spill in Bass Strait.

  • byBianca Hall
After years of promises on climate change,oil giants are backtracking

After years of promises on climate change,oil giants are backtracking

Fossil fuel majors are choosing profits over plans to bring a clean future closer.

  • byNick O'Malley
Australia’s fossil fuel giants set to take multibillion-dollar hit

Australia’s fossil fuel giants set to take multibillion-dollar hit

Australia’s gas and coal exporters face a tricky next five years with prices expected to keep tumbling.

  • byNick Toscano
Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Gas users are in danger of winter shortfalls sooner than originally feared as ExxonMobil and Woodside’s Bass Strait production fields dry up.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
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‘Bring it on’:The plan to get SUVs,monster utes off Sydney’s roads

‘Bring it on’:The plan to get SUVs,monster utes off Sydney’s roads

Paris residents voted to triple parking fees for big cars. Should Sydney do the same to make its streets safer?

  • byAndrew Taylor
Coal companies to reap up to $1 billion compensation before price cap winds up
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Coal companies to reap up to $1 billion compensation before price cap winds up

Chris Bowen is ready to lift the cap on the coal price,but he has not yet made the final call.

  • byPaul Sakkal
I was a corporate greenwasher. Sorry for making you think metal straws would fix climate change

I was a corporate greenwasher. Sorry for making you think metal straws would fix climate change

This wasn’t the creative life I pictured when I set out to become a writer. But it was a line of work I excelled at. I helped businesses rebrand it as a matter of lifestyle,solved by reusable cups and composting.

  • byWendy Syfret
What COP28 achieved – and what it failed to do
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What COP28 achieved – and what it failed to do

For the first time in COP’s 28-year history and in the face of fierce opposition from some states,fossil fuels were explicitly named in the event’s final text.

  • byNick O'Malley
COP28 ends with tears,and a historic deal on transition away from fossil fuels

COP28 ends with tears,and a historic deal on transition away from fossil fuels

The end of the negotiations came suddenly,a day after the talks were to have ended and after two marathon nights of tough discussions between rival voting blocs.

  • byNick O'Malley