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Small businessCommentsPremium‘Unbelievable demand’ for lithium battery recycling in WA

Amid a spate of waste truck battery fires, Gosnells-based Li-ion Energy is working to intercept lithium battery cells before they reach landfill or end-of-life facilities. 

Gabrielle Becerra Mellet

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Coates named new Fortescue Zero CEO

The musical chairs at Fortescue’s green energy arm continues as Mark Hutchinson hands over responsibility for the company’s Formula One offshoot.

Adrian Rauso

EnergyPremiumPowering up the Pilbara with $200m solar plan

Plans to power iron ore giant Rio Tinto with a $200 million solar farm will go before the Shire of Ashburton next week before heading to a Development Assessment Panel.

Matt Mckenzie

EnergyPremiumEPA to take a look at ambitious $100b hydrogen hub

Another ambitious green hydrogen project is headed for environmental review — this time with a plan to install solar and wind farms across hundreds of kilometres alongside the Trans Australian Railway.

Matt Mckenzie

Renewable EnergyPremiumEnergy minister's court loss offers wind farm reprieve

An offshore wind farm developer has successfully challenged the federal energy minister's decision to deny it a licence for a major proposed project.

Alex Mitchell

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WA’s clean energy boom ‘under threat’ if Pilbara strikes

WA’s nation-leading economy is under threat from Federal Labor, the State’s peak mining body has declared, calling on Premier Roger Cook to take up the fight with his Canberra colleagues. 

Jessica Page

Leadership MattersCommentsPremiumStokes’ plan to convert ‘nuclear NIMBYs’

Ryan Stokes says there’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’ when it comes to renewable energy and he believes there is a way to convert the nuclear ‘NIMBYs’.

Adrian Rauso

EnergyPremiumNew life for old oil refinery gets major backing

A $1 billion-plus new energy project on the site of BP’s old Kwinana oil refinery has secured development approval.

Matt Mckenzie

EnergyCommentsPremiumFMG pushes back on plans to make carbon a Canberra problem

The boss of Fortescue’s iron ore business has warned the State Government against trying to untangle green tape by making pollution solely a Federal issue.

Adrian Rauso

EnergyCommentsPremiumBP’s $1b Kwinana refinery revamp heads toward approval

BP’s plans to build a green fuel hub on the site of the old Kwinana refinery have been backed by the local government ahead of a development assessment panel review this week.

Matt Mckenzie

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Dutton heads to Busselton promising to scrap offshore wind

Peter Dutton will vow to ditch shore wind farms in a visit to the South West as he accuses the Government of ignoring the economic, environmental and social concerns of local communities.

Katina Curtis

BusinessPremiumClock is ticking on Australia’s hydrogen, green iron dreams

Consumers increasingly want to understand what they are buying, an inquiry into green hydrogen has been told, with the emerging sector "frustrated" by delays.

Marion Rae

EnergyPremiumFrontier Energy is yet to make their Mark

There’s been a shake-up to Frontier Energy’s share register but the company is no closer to locking in former premier Mark McGowan as chair.

Matt Mckenzie

EnergyCommentsPremiumWorker killed on Woodside’s new ammonia plant in US

A worker has been killed at an under-construction ammonia plant in the US state of Texas just days after Woodside Energy closed the books on a $3.6 billion deal to buy the facility.

Daniel Newell

EnergyCommentsOrigin pulls the plug on hydrogen hub, says too expensive

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hopes of kick-starting a hydrogen energy revolution have suffered another setback after Origin Energy revealed it had pulled the plug on a project in NSW.

Daniel Newell

EnergyCommentsPremiumSolar shock as Frontier walks back on $23m raise

Solar hopeful Frontier Energy has ditched a $23 million capital raising that was set to go before shareholders next week for approval.

Matt Mckenzie

EnergyCommentsPremiumMcGowan yet to power up for the new Frontier

Former WA premier Mark McGowan is yet to take the reins as chair of solar hopeful Frontier Energy, four weeks after the company confirmed to The West that he had started.

Matt Mckenzie

EnergyPremiumIt’s the final Frontier for these power projects

Shares in Mark McGowan’s Frontier Energy have dived 43 per cent after the company’s solar project missed out on crucial backing from the market operator.

Matt Mckenzie

Renewable EnergyCommentsPremiumAustralia’s biggest wind farm set for south-west Wheatbelt

The Wheatbelt could soon be home to Australia’s most ambitious wind farm project with a renewable energy company announcing plans to place hundreds of wind turbines on farmland in the region.

Hannah Whitehead

energyPremium‘Dumb’: Dick Smith’s brutal snipe at nuclear naysayers

Businessman Dick Smith labelled Australia as ‘dumb’ for not following China’s lead as it ramps up its nuclear infrastructure.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

EnergyPremiumChinese business is Trina get big battery built

A Chinese company wants to build a $400 million battery near Kemerton, joining a long list of projects proposed as the shutdown of Western Australia’s coal power stations looms.

Matt Mckenzie

Renewable EnergyCommentsPremiumYara, Pilbara Ports run fuel trial in shipping decarb race

A mission to eventually have mammoth Pilbara iron ore carriers running on so-called clean ammonia has made progress after a world-first fuel transfer was completed in Port Dampier.

Simone Grogan

MiningMiners wary of more green tape in decarb mission

A key Federal climate body has called out red and green tape delaying decarbonisation projects and WA miners say a rethink will help them chase net zero.

Simone Grogan

Project advancesPremiumFeasibility study into green hydrogen project near Eucla

A new collaboration agreement paves the way for a feasibility study into a proposed green hydrogen project on WA’s remote south-east coast.

Neil Watkinson