Yesterday
Offshore wind ambitions in disarray as key players walk
Moves by Origin Energy and Norway’s Equinor have exposed big doubts about offshore wind developing anywhere in NSW, given high costs that are only modestly lower than for large nuclear plants.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
December 2023
Woodside kicks off Scarborough seismic testing after approvals
The regulatory approvals stunned green groups and traditional owners and come as a Federal Court case against Santos relating to a separate gas project kicks off in Darwin.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
September 2023
Woodside to start Scarborough seismic testing despite legal stoush
The testing will get under way for the LNG project on Thursday, despite opponents having declared they will “take all legal options” to prevent the work.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
August 2023
This ultra-luxe campsite costs $2300 a night. We put it to the test
Luxury travel is usually all about the marble en-suites. So what makes a “back-to-basics” stay so popular? Whale sharks and a World Heritage setting helps.
- Carolyne Jasinski
June 2023
Surfers join a new push to stop NSW offshore gas
A new bill being drafted spells trouble for the controversial PEP-11 project which is back under consideration two years after Scott Morrison tried to kill it.
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- Samantha Hutchinson
December 2022
- Opinion
- Investing
Macquarie chief’s nothing letter to investors
The bank’s top fund manager, Ben Way, has published an end-of-year message of bland emptiness and obvious observations.
- Aaron Patrick
July 2019
Japan resumes commercial whaling, but industry days numbered
Japan has resumed commercial whaling after 31 years, meeting a long-cherished goal of traditionalists that's seen as a largely lost cause.
- Mari Yamaguchi
April 2019
Goliaths of the Caribbean: swimming with sperm whales in Dominica
Moby Dick author Herman Melville got it wrong: a close encounter with sperm whales shows them to be magnificent, empathetic creatures, not monsters of the deep.
- Richard Waters