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The Gorgon deal that could up the stakes on WA’s looming gas shortage
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Gas

The Gorgon deal that could up the stakes on WA’s looming gas shortage

Western Australia’s biggest gas plant may be able to export for 30 years with no obligation to supply the state, thanks to an agreement struck two decades ago.

  • by Peter Milne

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Forrest’s Indigenous foes call for inquiry into Fortescue mining

Forrest’s Indigenous foes call for inquiry into Fortescue mining

The Yindjibarndi people chasing Fortescue for $500 million compensation now want the independent environment regulator to consider tightening the regulation of the high-grade Solomon mine.

  • by Peter Milne
Lawyers mull class action over Rio Tinto sexual harassment claims

Lawyers mull class action over Rio Tinto sexual harassment claims

Two years after a damning report into sexual discrimination, assault and bullying at Rio Tinto was released, an investigation into the claims could lead to a lawsuit.

  • by Claire Ottaviano
In the remote Pilbara FIFO villages are all about employee experience

In the remote Pilbara FIFO villages are all about employee experience

If the food disappoints, rooms are not cleaned well or flights are late, management will hear about it – a remote workforce, like an army, marches on its stomach.

  • by Peter Milne
Russia sanctions put a rocket under BHP’s copper outlook

Russia sanctions put a rocket under BHP’s copper outlook

Copper is shaping up as a star for the mining giant, as it edges closer to making a final call on its nickel business in West Australia.

  • by Simon Johanson
Woodside and Pilbara fertiliser plant look at storing emissions underground

Woodside and Pilbara fertiliser plant look at storing emissions underground

Woodside and Norway’s Yara are targeting injecting more than one million tonnes of carbon emissions a year under the seabed off the Pilbara coast.

  • by Peter Milne
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Macquarie exits BP’s $55 billion WA green energy project
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Macquarie exits BP’s $55 billion WA green energy project

Australia’s biggest renewable energy project in WA’s Pilbara region has lost the backing of “the millionaires factory” Macquarie Group.

  • by Peter Milne
Qantas pilots extend WA strike to six days: what you need to know

Qantas pilots extend WA strike to six days: what you need to know

Qantas’ WA pilots have just doubled the length of their strike. Find out who is affected, how the airlines and miners may cope and what the fight is about.

  • by Peter Milne
Tragic end to search for mine worker missing in the Pilbara
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Mining

Tragic end to search for mine worker missing in the Pilbara

A mine worker missing in WA’s vast Pilbara has been found dead in his crashed car about 90 kilometres from Karratha.

  • by Heather McNeill
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has escalated his war against oil and gas producers, and Woodside in particular, taking to a helicopter off the remote WA coast to lambast its $18 billion Scarborough gas export project as a “carbon dioxide bomb”.

  • by Peter Milne
Heatwave warning issued for WA as Marble Bar on track for new record

Heatwave warning issued for WA as Marble Bar on track for new record

The Pilbara town has sweltered through 23 consecutive days of temperatures at or exceeding 43ºC and this weekend looks set to be even hotter.

  • by Rebecca Peppiatt

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