Vulcan hits back at JCap short report
Vulcan Energy says it has the support of major shareholders despite J Capital Research’s short-seller attack.
Mining Energy
Activist seeks to split Shell after buying stake
The activist hedge fund’s stake is worth well over $US500 million.
Fortescue’s green jobs spree tops 500
The workforce for Fortescue’s ambitious green energy transformation has jumped by more than 40 per cent.
Aussie’s $1m offer to island nations to build carbon sinkhole
Island nations under threat from rising sea levels have been offered more than $1 million to take part in a bold new experiment.
Revealed: 800 Aussie businesses going carbon neutral
More than 800 Aussie businesses have made a vow to be carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner. Here are the firms that have stepped up.
Forrest pledges to halve emissions by 2030
Fortescue Metals Group becomes the first mining company to join UN’s “race to zero” initiative, pledging bold emissions targets.
Santos battles with Forrest on hydrogen
Santos has escalated a war of words with Andrew Forrest, arguing hydrogen from its Moomba hub will be far cheaper and with zero emissions.
Hydrogen key to net zero: Finkel
The former chief scientist says the export opportunity that clean hydrogen presents Australia is ‘almost beyond imagining’.
New hope for dormant Tasmanian copper mine
New Century Resources has cut a deal to acquire the historic Mt Lyell mine in Tasmania, taking up a two-year option to take control of the mothballed operation.
AusLAMP spotlights untapped minerals
Explorers looking to develop northern Australia’s untapped mineral resources will benefit from a new geophysical model able to peer hundreds of kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface.
Whitehaven Coal cops first strike on pay
Over 53 per cent of Whitehaven investors voted against the company’s remuneration report.
Vulcan Energy targeted by short selling fund
High-flying lithium hopeful Vulcan Energy, which boasts Gina Rinehart and her estranged son John Hancock as investors, has been targeted by short selling fund J Capital Research.
Oil Search projects slow amid Santos deal
The timelines for Oil Search’s Alaskan and Papua New Guinean projects has slowed with the producer seeking to seal a $21bn merger with Santos
Production of gas and coal to drop 35pc by 2050
Australia’s gas and coal production will be 35 per cent lower in 2050 as global demand for the commodities decline in a decarbonising world.
Beach Energy facing second potential class action
Beach Energy’s Cooper Basin production forecasts are the subject of a second potential class action.
Soaring coal price puts failed QLD mine back in play
With coal prices soaring, the failed Bluff mine in Queensland could soon be back up and running.
Our energy suicide note now on steroids
The refusal by Australia’s political class to aggressively embrace nuclear power has become an exercise of criminally irresponsible suicide-on-steroids.
Green option as Origin offloads APLNG stake
Origin Energy may plough part of a $2bn windfall into clean energy and storage projects after it sold a stake in APLNG to private equity owner EIG.
Woodside plans ammonia plant
Woodside Petroleum has announced plans to enter the ammonia industry, agreeing to acquire land south of Perth to build a huge export plant for ammonia and hydrogen.
MinRes jumps as Wodgina restarts
Mineral Resources says it will return its Wodgina lithium mine to production amid strong demand for the battery-making material.
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