Yesterday
Climate won’t be central to Labor’s environment law overhaul
Environment Minister Murray Watt said there were already mechanisms to deal with emissions from Australian coal and gas burnt overseas.
Big miners ready to compromise on green laws, Murray Watt says
The new environment minister believes some in Australia’s mining industry are ready to help the government deliver green reforms if it speeds up project approvals.
May
Emboldened LNG giants push for more supply as North West Shelf looms
Woodside and Santos bosses have warned that ideological opposition to gas projects is scaring off investment and risks undermining Asia’s energy transition.
Powerful unions back Woodside project extension
Australia’s biggest union has intervened in the Albanese government’s considerations over the future of Woodside’s North West Shelf project.
Labor says Woodside not blameless for six-year North West Shelf delay
Resources Minister Madeleine King suggests the company had changed its proposals, adding to the “mind-boggling” time it has taken to approve the LNG project
Watt urged not to ‘kill projects with bureaucracy’, as doyen emerges
The Holmes a Court family matriarch has lent her voice to the chorus of environmentalists lobbying against a 40-year extension of Woodside’s major North West Shelf gas plant.
Watt won’t rule out giving EPA veto over resources projects
A new federal environment protection agency could be handed the power to approve major resources projects.
‘Show you’re centrist’: Watt demands Ley help fix environment laws
The new environment minister says business and green groups will need to compromise to fix the nation’s broken environment regulations.
April
Santos gets the final green light for $5.8b Barossa gas project
The company intends to begin full production at the development, in the Timor Sea near Darwin, within months after its processing vessel was approved for use.
Westpac and CBA face green ire over $500m loan to salmon farmers
High-profile environmentalists Richard Flanagan and Geoff Cousins say the major lenders are being misleading by describing the financing as “sustainable”.
March
WA warning for Albanese over revised environment laws
After torpedoing a deal hashed out by Tanya Plibersek, the prime minister has blamed Labor’s Senate numbers for uncertainty on a new environment watchdog.
Why salmon farming laws could affect mining projects
New laws designed to insulate Tasmania’s salmon industry from environmental challenge could have unintended consequences for several projects.
11 curious things you may have missed
What was in the budget for the Maugean skate, live music and St George Illawarra? We’ve found the budget’s new ideas and unlikely assumptions.
January
WA Labor premier calls on Dutton to find way forward on nature laws
Roger Cook says the Albanese government must ramp up engagement with the state’s mining giants over a set of divisive environmental reforms.
EDO rejects bankruptcy fears after $9m Santos court flop
The taxpayer-funded environmental law charity has secured a $6.5m interest free loan to stay afloat after costs from its case against the gas giant pushed it to the brink of collapse.
‘Nature positive’ is high risk for Labor in the west
The short-term politics are a sideshow to the bigger danger of further slowing down Australia’s already sluggish economy.
WA premier warns east coast latte sippers over ‘nature positive’ laws
Tanya Plibersek’s renewed attempt to create a federal Environment Protection Agency inflames tensions in WA, a state that will be critical at the election.
December 2024
South32 claims alumina victory as WA minister backs Worsley expansion
The Perth-based miner has received tentative approval from WA’s environment minister to extend the life of its Worsley Alumina project, overruling some objections
Emerson overstates RBA’s impact on jobs
Readers’ letters on what 4.5 per cent unemployment really means; delay of the Nature Positive Bill; Reserve Bank independence; office party activities; and South Australia’s high-voltage lines.
End RBA scapegoating and come up with policy solutions
Readers’ letters on the Reserve Bank pile-on; supermarket “discounts”; a lost opportunity to protect the environment; support for the social media age ban; and rooftop solar.