Browsing: WA

• Chevron secures works approval for first-phase of Gorgon LNG plant
  
• Hunt – emissions-intensive businesses will have their say
  
• Report urges 'policy flexibility' to protect fisheries

• Business lobbies WA Government over modular nuclear
  
• NT Budget boosts scrutiny of mining
  
• Chevron makes EPBC referral for fourth Barrow LNG train
  
• WA EPA takes swipe at environment department

• Victoria to complete licence overhaul, expands online information on contaminated sites
  
• Enterprise bargaining shouldn't exclude green matters: Bandt
  
• WA landowner fails in wind turbine challenge

• IT moves help Macquarie Group meet carbon commitments
  
• Murray Goulburn strategy a model for climate adaptation action: AiGroup
  
• Innovation laggard: energy industry spends 'about 1%' of turnover on R&D
  
• Nominations sought for WA waste awards

• Charge more for urban water during droughts, National Water Commission says
  
• Conservation Council challenges WA power station licence
  
• PM quizzes BCA on carbon stance

• Canberra to impose anti-dumping duties on U.S. biodiesel
  
• Qantas, Woolworths distance themselves from carbon letter to PM
  
• Burke urged to assess five WA projects on greenhouse gas grounds
  
• 'Technical' EPBC Act breaches lead to penalty for coal seam gas company

• Three companies fined over sugar mill pollution
  
• EPA SA launches site contamination index
  
• Federal Government drafts new assessment bilateral agreement with WA

• No confidence in Magellan in wake of new lead result, WA minister warns
  
• ACCI and Greens polls apart on carbon tax
  
• Gold miner makes progress on cyanide code certification

Encouraged by a federal environment department EPBC Act recommendation that a 100% abatement obligation be imposed on a Shell offshore LNG processing facility, the WA Conservation Council will ask Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to impose tough carbon conditions on major WA LNG, coal and chemical projects.

The WA Department of Mines and Petroleum has proposed a low-cost fix for the state's ailing environmental bonds regime – sidestepping an earlier recommendation that miners fork out enough to fully cover rehabilitation and closure costs.