Woodside is committed to its $17 billion Scarborough gas project but faces opposition from Traditional Custodians and a new look at carbon emissions before it gains approval to start construction offshore.
BHP’s WA iron ore mines are a money machine at current prices,but one man is focused on tweaking the operation to ensure it can still thrive when times change.
BHP will spend $130 million on giant fences to shield Port Hedland from its dust,but the benefit could be undone if the miner expands its giant Pilbara iron ore operation.
The cost to build Perdaman’s controversial fertiliser plant on WA’s Burrup Peninsula has jumped after Italian construction giant Saipem struck problems.
A two-decade battle,first for land rights and now for compensation,enters its twilight hour as the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara approach the Federal Court.
In 2000 the median price for a house in Port Hedland was $141,000. That grew to a record high of $906,000 in 2013 before plummeting five years later to a dismal $220,000. Now the town is bouncing back,recording a 40 per cent gain over the past year.
Police arrested a NSW man and a German national who allegedly collected the loot from a bulk carrier off the West Australian coast and hid it in a campervan.
The new recruit has less than eight years to eliminate 2 million tonnes of emissions a year from Fortescue’s Pilbara operation,and tree-planting won’t cut it.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the money,which was part of an existing grant process and is not an election commitment,on his second day on the election hustings in Perth.
Greens leader Adam Bandt said the fund would reduce the nation’s dependence on coal and allow his party to shelve the 114 Australian coal and gas projects in the investment pipeline and send workers into less polluting resources jobs.
An environmental group has disputed claims by ASX-listed energy giant Santos that the leakage of up to 25,000 litres of oil from a facility on an island off WA’s Pilbara coast was a “minor spill.”