Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas
Climate crisis

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has escalated his war against oil and gas producers,and Woodside in particular,taking to a helicopter off the remote WA coast to lambast its $18 billion Scarborough gas export project as a “carbon dioxide bomb”.

  • byPeter Milne

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Heatwave warning issued for WA as Marble Bar on track for new record
Heatwave

Heatwave warning issued for WA as Marble Bar on track for new record

The Pilbara town has sweltered through 23 consecutive days of temperatures at or exceeding 43ºC and this weekend looks set to be even hotter.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Heatwave warning with parts of WA set to swelter in the new year
Weather

Heatwave warning with parts of WA set to swelter in the new year

Thermometers at one local RSL registered 51 degrees over the past few days in WA’s north.

  • byJacob Shteyman
Rio Tinto’s green vision for giant Pilbara copper mine
Mining

Rio Tinto’s green vision for giant Pilbara copper mine

The miner plans to use solar and wind power to slash emissions to generate electricity by 75 per cent at its proposed Winu copper mine in the remote northern Pilbara.

  • byPeter Milne
Turtles,toxic PFAS and quarantine:Probes target Chevron’s Gorgon
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Gas

Turtles,toxic PFAS and quarantine:Probes target Chevron’s Gorgon

The US gas giant’s operation on Western Australia’s Barrow Island is being investigated for beach erosion,contamination and biodiversity-threatening breaches.

  • byPeter Milne
‘No survivors’ after mining truck carrying explosives crashes in Pilbara
Tragedy

‘No survivors’ after mining truck carrying explosives crashes in Pilbara

At least three people are dead after a truck carrying a “significant quantity” of ammonium nitrate and a car collided on Tuesday afternoon.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt andHeather McNeill
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Traditional owners dispute Rio Tinto claim rock shelter OK after blast
Indigenous culture

Traditional owners dispute Rio Tinto claim rock shelter OK after blast

Rio Tinto boss Simon Trott told employees that the inside of the rock shelter was intact,but the body representing the traditional owners says they came to a different conclusion.

  • byPeter Milne
Remote WA mining tech gives Australia the edge in space
Space

Remote WA mining tech gives Australia the edge in space

The sheer vastness of Australia and the crucial remote capabilities championed by its resources sector gave the nation the edge when NASA was deciding where to develop a new moon rover.

  • byKatelyn Catanzariti
Rio blast threatens Pilbara Indigenous heritage – again
Indigenous culture

Rio blast threatens Pilbara Indigenous heritage – again

Rio Tinto has apologised after iron ore blasting may have damaged a registered cultural heritage site,three years after the global Juukan Gorge scandal.

  • byPeter Milne
Yindjibarndi seek $500m compensation from Fortescue for mining their land
Indigenous justice

Yindjibarndi seek $500m compensation from Fortescue for mining their land

The Yindjibarndi people of WA’s Pilbara region are seeking $500 million from Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue for mining the land they have exclusive native title over without their agreement,the Federal Court has heard.

  • byPeter Milne
Pay-up time looms for Fortescue in native title fight
Indigenous justice

Pay-up time looms for Fortescue in native title fight

Fifteen years since negotiations started,the final stage of the Yindjibarndi People’s fight with Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue begins in the small Pilbara town of Roebourne on Monday.

  • byPeter Milne