ExclusiveMining & EnergyImproving the performance of the carbon capture and storage unit at Chevron’s Gorgon facility would undercut allegations the technology, widely seen as needed to get to net zero emissions, does not work.
EnergyNationThe Coalition has released new details of its plan to cut gas prices on the east coast. Full modelling has yet to be released, however.
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EXCLUSIVEPoliticsAustralian miners have launched a ‘Mining Keeps the Lights On’ campaign blitz including in Chris Bowen’s Sydney electorate, taking over billboards on highways and at NRL and AFL matches.
ElectionMining & EnergyAustralia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has cleared up differences with opposition leader Peter Dutton, with their alliance tested by the Coalition’s energy policy unveiled last week.
MININGMining & EnergyMining giant Rio Tinto has given its London investors a lesson on Aussie tax breaks as former WA treasurer Ben Wyatt warned of franking credit waste in ditching its dual listing.
Metals ProcessingMining & EnergyGlencore has warned local communities that its Mount Isa copper smelter and Townsville copper refinery are hanging by a thread and unlikely to survive without government support.
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ELECTION 2025PoliticsAnthony Albanese has suggested residents in the NSW Hunter Valley would be in danger under the Coalition’s energy policy, in off-the-cuff remarks at a conference where he fell off stage.
ManufacturingMining & EnergySanjeev Gupta’s InfraBuild has struck two key agreements which should avoid a possible default on its debts but the $US150m in new debt at the heart of the deal is not yet settled.
EnergyMining & EnergyThe Vale Point coal-fired power station can continue to operate despite ESG pressure from its financier under a rule change allowing the country’s energy market operator to accept cash.
MiningMining & EnergyAs Rio Tinto shareholders prepare to have their say on leaving the London listing behind, activist hedge fund Palliser Capital has accused the mining giant’s board of running scared.
ExclusiveMining & EnergyThe NSW government has backed in federal Labor’s clean energy gambit with $2.5m in critical mineral exploration.
Energy roleMining & EnergyThree energy executives have emerged in a short list to replace long-time Santos boss Kevin Gallagher when he exits the oil and gas major.
CourtsMining & EnergyShareholders have hit the miner and its managing director Chris Ellison with a class action that will examine his tax evasion and how share prices were impacted by alleged poor governance.
innovationMining & EnergyMining tech innovator NextOre and the University of Technology Sydney’s Robotics Institute have banded together to develop a revolutionary ore sorting system.
energyPoliticsPeter Dutton’s claim a Coalition government would claw back funding allocated to Labor’s $19bn Rewiring the Nation program have been blunted.
EnergyBusinessThe Coalition’s proposal to deliver gas from Queensland into Victoria for less than $10 a gigajoule is not sustainable, says an independent energy research company.
energyRenewable energy & economyBeach Energy chief executive Brett Woods says the pursuit of curbing emissions has led to Australia’s elevated cost of living.
MiningMining & EnergyAbandoning a dual-listed structure could cost Rio Tinto billions of dollars more and make it harder to pay fully franked dividends to Australian shareholders, says Goldman Sachs.
IndustryMining & EnergySanjeev Gupta’s InfraBuild could default on $880m in debt imminently according to ratings agency Fitch, while cheap steel imports will put further pressure on profitability.
DecarbonisationRenewable energy & economyAs more developers miss out on prized transmission access, some are exploring the idea of supporting prospective data centres in a tactical reinvention of their business models.
energyMining & EnergyAustralia should focus on bolstering much-needed gas production rather than carving off supplies from the country’s LNG industry, according to the head of Shell Australia.
energyMining & EnergyIn an indication of Origin Energy’s confidence that its Eraring coal-fired power station will turn a profit, it has elected not to opt into an underwriting deal with the NSW government.
marketsMarketsThe BlackRock boss has put forward a defence for globalisation as he argues markets hold the key to creating more evenly distributed wealth.
energyPoliticsLabor has been accused of privately assuring industry wholesale electricity prices will fall over the next decade while refusing to make the same promise publicly.
Strategic MineralsMining & EnergyA China-linked Northern Minerals investor, which for months ignored federal government demands to sell its shares in the rare earths hopeful, has finally sold up.
MiningMining & EnergyA US special envoy is scheduled to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo for talks crucial to Australian minerals company AVZ’s hope of regaining control of a lithium project.
InsolvencyMining & EnergyThe liquidator of Impact Gold says there appears to be no evidence held by the company indicating it had any tenure in PNG, or has any gold to show for its years of work.
MiningMining & EnergyRio Tinto has adjusted its plans for Australia’s next big copper-gold mine after the shock discovery of one of the world’s rarest birds: the night parrot.