An appeal has identified multiple failings in the Western Australian EPA's assessment of a gas-fired power station proposed by Fortescue, but the state government won't make the agency re-evaluate it.
A new Western Australian government climate policy says the federal government must impose constraints on big emitters if the state's emissions are to fall.
Western Australia's imminent new climate policy will leave other states bearing a multi-billion dollar abatement burden, if it allows emissions in the state to increase, according to the WA Conservation Council.
BP will convert its Kwinana refinery in Western Australia into a fuel import terminal, but says the state's net-zero ambitions present it with new opportunities.