Anthony 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.
Sanjeev 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.
Asia is the heart of the world’s manufacturing hub and Australia sits at the start of a complex supply chain. So despite relatively mild tariffs on our exports, the Asian hit will be seismic.
The 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.
As 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.
The NSW government has backed in federal Labor’s clean energy gambit with $2.5m in critical mineral exploration.
Three energy executives have emerged in a short list to replace long-time Santos boss Kevin Gallagher when he exits the oil and gas major.
Shareholders 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.
Mining tech innovator NextOre and the University of Technology Sydney’s Robotics Institute have banded together to develop a revolutionary ore sorting system.
Peter Dutton’s claim a Coalition government would claw back funding allocated to Labor’s $19bn Rewiring the Nation program have been blunted.
The 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.
Beach Energy chief executive Brett Woods says the pursuit of curbing emissions has led to Australia’s elevated cost of living.
Abandoning 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.
Sanjeev 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.
As 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.
Australia 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.
In 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.
The BlackRock boss has put forward a defence for globalisation as he argues markets hold the key to creating more evenly distributed wealth.
Labor has been accused of privately assuring industry wholesale electricity prices will fall over the next decade while refusing to make the same promise publicly.
A 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.
A 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.
The 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.
Rio 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.
Australia’s largest steelmaker, BlueScope, has backed Peter Dutton’s election plan to bring down gas prices through a reservation scheme.
Australia should use uranium as a bargaining chip in trade talks with the US aimed at lessening the effect of tariffs, says the Minerals Council.
Under-siege industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s InfraBuild has attacked in court private equity firm FitzWalter over its demand for an immediate $800m repayment from GFG Alliance.
Queensland LNG producers may be forced to delay exports and power station producers could be called on to divert gas into the domestic market.
The fate of millions of dollars worth of uranium royalties should soon be known, after a court ruling that the Adnyamthanha group get access to key financial documents.
Plibersek’s decision to delay a call on the North West Shelf extension is undoubtedly a win for environmentalists and activists.
The Coalition has promised to approve the gas project within 30 days and the Greens are demanding it be blocked.
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