Net Zero Perth
Rio Tinto unveils $215m ‘green steel’ Rockingham research plant
Australia’s biggest iron ore producer has 16,000 employees, 17 mines, four port terminals and 2000 kilometres of rail in the Pilbara. Now it plans to transform their impact.
- Jesinta Burton
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- Exclusive
- Paris Agreement
Perth climate voters get MP on board with net-zero ‘vision for future’
The teal independent, who is glad to be free of “party ideologies”, says her constituents’ action and work will help her advocate for them at a federal level.
- Hamish Hastie
- Analysis
- Energy
Future planning: Is this the year petrol will disappear from WA?
A close look at the WA government’s new 40-page emissions reductions strategy has found some bold predictions of what the state could look like in 26 years’ time.
- Hamish Hastie
‘Say no to gas’: WA doctors rally at Parliament House
GPs, emergency doctors and surgeons have rallied outside the West Australian parliament urging the Cook government to stop gas projects and safeguard public health.
- Aaron Bunch
‘Up to its guts’: WA premier reveals green energy project sweeteners
WA Premier Roger Cook declared the state was “up to its guts” in decarbonisation at an energy transition summit convened by his government in Perth on Friday.
- Hamish Hastie
- Exclusive
- China
Next stop China: Cook takes Asian tour to state’s biggest trading partner
Nine News Perth can reveal the state government will use the visit to lobby for direct flights, a service that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Michael Genovese
South Perth ‘timber tower’ gets tick as panel overrides council
Is this 51-storey South Perth record-breaker an environmental marvel, or an undercooked overdevelopment? It depends who’s talking, the developer or the council.
- Emma Young
South Perth’s 51-storey ‘timber tower’ faces knockback
The tower will be the tallest of its kind in the world, with most of its occupants sharing a fleet of electric vehicles. So, what’s the problem?
- Emma Young
- Opinion
- Energy
We need more than a rooftop solar boom to safeguard WA’s energy future
The state’s clean energy transition is being put at risk by a glaring underinvestment in wind and batteries, even as household after household invests in solar.
- Brad Pettitt
- Opinion
- Opinion
A net-zero Perth will need more trees – but how will we water them?
As a teenager, I began planting things largely out of intuition. Now there’s a whole lot of science backing my feeling – and it’s time to scale this way up.
- Professor Josh Byrne
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