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Yesterday

Environment Minister Murray Watt.

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.

Ancient rock art at Murujuga, the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia.

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

Meg O’Neill is pushing for the government to approve the North West Shelf extension.

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.

Woodside wants to extend the life of its North West Shelf gas project in WA.

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.

Resources Minister Madeleine King at the Financial Review Mining Summit on Wednesday.

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

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Janet Holmes a Court (right), who was  outside Parliament House on behalf of the Friends of Australian Rock Art, and Friends of Australian Rock Art co-convener Judith Hugo.

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.

New Environment Minister Murray Watt.

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.

Murray Watt says fixing the broken environment laws are his priority.

‘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

Audacia pipeline vessel owned by Allseas, used on Santos’ Barossa gas project

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.

Geoff Cousins and Richard Flanagan have slammed sustainability-linked loans to Tasmanian salmon farmers.

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

Anthony Albanese visited Perth’s St John of God Midland Public Hospital on Monday.

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.

Tasmanian salmon farming has become a headache for the government.

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 Premier Roger Cook and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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.

Santos has suggested delays to the Barossa project could cost $456 million.

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.

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Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek is putting “nature positive” reforms back on the legislative agenda, despite objections from the WA premier and mining sector.

‘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.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

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’s Worsley mine in Western Australia.

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

Craig Emerson.

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.

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