Alinta says a proposed expansion of its Port Hedland gas plant will significantly cut its carbon emissions, and has pledged to use offsets as a back-up if its emissions end up being higher.
A Wesfarmers-backed lithium refinery will cut its net emissions by 38% within 10 years, after the Western Australian EPA requested stronger carbon commitments.
A company owned by Sanjeev Gupta has told NSW's Independent Planning Commission it is open to a scope 3 offsets condition for its coal mine, and the Commission has also asked about deeper scope 1 cuts.
After imposing its first carbon offset condition late last month, the NSW Independent Planning Commission is saying little about how it might exercise its carbon offset conditioning powers in future.
A Western Australian EPA recommendation to amend a carbon condition attached to Chevron's Gorgon LNG project would result in the company having to buy millions of offsets.
A plant that would gasify coal into ammonia and syngas, producing two million tonnes of by-product CO2 a year, will undergo fast-track environmental assessment.