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.
Western Australia's EPA today recommended approval for a project in the Pilbara that could deliver up to 46 million tonnes of greenhouse gas abatement annually, and which could position the state as "the Saudi Arabia of green hydrogen".
A new Bill strengthens enforcement and compliance provisions in Western Australia's environment law and paves the way for an accreditation scheme for environmental consultants.
Mitsui has set targets for reducing net CO2 emissions, in the first greenhouse gas management plan to be released since the WA EPA issued its carbon emissions guidance.
New documents tabled in the WA Parliament show that the board of the state's EPA last year decided Chevron should ultimately be required to sequester 100% of reservoir CO2 from its Gorgon LNG project, but later backed down.
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New data from Chevron shows it risks falling millions of tonnes short of a mandatory requirement to abate greenhouse gas emissions from its Gorgon LNG project.