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Oil companies hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum also schemed to turn the ecological crisis into a profit centre.

Sussan Ley rendered the Australian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) project "clearly unacceptable" while approving three new coal mines

15 June 2021 Every fossil fuel company in the world is struggling to cope with climate change. Not the actual, real-world phenomenon, which they’re actively worsening – but the social, cultural and economic changes that arise as we try to undo the damage. Recently, the International Energy Agency put out a report that examined what’s required to reach net zero emissions in energy by the year 2050. Unsurprisingly, that included ending exploration for new coal, oil and gas: existing mining ...

Woodside wants to drill a new gas field off north-west Western Australia and climate protests are gathering pace, with a final decision expected any day.

10 April 2021 The heat is on for Australia’s government to create a fabricated impression of climate success and sell that fabrication to the world to stave off criticism. Last month, there was a full-effort trial run of this process during the election campaign of Australia’s former finance minister and now new Secretary-General of the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Mathias Cormann. That mostly involved painful contortions of Australia’s emissions data and climate targets,...

Oil and gas giant announces planting of 3.6m native trees in Western Australia, a headline action in a cluster of seemingly climate friendly initiatives.

It was revealed in January that the flagship carbon capture system of the country’s sixth-biggest polluter had faced another setback, but until now it was not clear just how big the setback was.

It was revealed in January that the flagship carbon capture system of the country’s sixth-biggest polluter had faced another setback, but until now it was not clear just how big the setback was.

WA Opposition leader Zak Kirkup wants to replace State-owned coal-fired power from Collie with wind and solar from the Mid-West by 2025 in a surprise move that has left Labor as the clean energy laggards in WA. Kirkup’s energy plan announced last week also offers infrastructure support for a green hydrogen industry north of Geraldton and pledges net-zero emissions from the State Government by 2030. Labor Energy Minister Bill Johnston has gone out of his way for two years to avoid being realis...

The government hasn’t finished enshrining the regulations to be placed on the fledgling fracking industry in WA, but resource companies are ready to go.