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.
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.
The company proposing a WA gas project, along with the state's environmental agency, are taking a very different stance on carbon offsetting to Santos and the NSW government.
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.
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 backers of a project that would export electricity from Darwin to Singapore have made their first EPBC referral, while WA's energy minister has expressed doubts about the viability of sub-sea cables exporting power to Asia.