Western Australia's EPA has recommended that statutory approval conditions for a Fortescue Metals Group power plant require a gradual decline in emissions to net-zero by 2040.
Santos has presented the Independent Planning Commission with a new legal opinion on ecologically sustainable development and carbon emissions, as it seeks approval for its Narrabri coal seam gas project.
NOPSEMA has required Shell to provide detailed information on carbon emissions linked to its Crux gas field development, but has accepted the company's claim that the Safeguard Mechanism "enforces a precautionary approach" to emissions management.
A long-running review of the greenhouse gas condition applying to Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project will be completed this year after nearly a three-year process, according to WA EPA Chair Dr Tom Hatton.
The Western Australian EPA has announced it will require Fortescue Metals Group to provide extra information on greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed gas-fired power plant at its Solomon iron ore mine.
Fortescue acknowledges its proposed gas-fired power station in the Pilbara will emit more than 600,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas annually, but says this is much lower than its originally approved plan.
Western Australia's environmental regulator has issued a new licence to Yara's ammonia plant, without requiring it to cut its net annual one million tonnes of carbon emissions or reduce acidic discharges harmful to rock art.