This Month
- Exclusive
- Open banking
‘Badly executed’: Labor unveils plans to simplify consumer data right
A raft of enhancements to the open banking and energy sector data-sharing regime will be unveiled on Friday to boost adoption.
- James Eyers
Energy needs count, WA warns EPA on gas approvals
Governments cannot throw economic and energy security out the door in favour of environmental factors when assessing gas projects, the WA treasurer says.
- Tom Rabe and Angela Macdonald-Smith
July
Air NZ becomes first major airline to dump emissions targets
The Albanese government is under pressure on aviation fuel mandates after Air New Zealand abandoned its 2030 target.
- Brad Thompson and Ayesha de Kretser
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
When politics and miners mix, investors get hurt
The last thing investors need in Australian mining is more shocks like the ban on uranium mining at Jabiluka. The industry is doing it hard enough.
- Anthony Macdonald
Big Glencore shareholders want to keep coal
An influential group of Glencore shareholders want the company to abandon a plan to spin-off its coal division, and allocate those earnings to new avenues of growth.
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Andrew Liveris is wrong: the Olympics are by their nature political
Letters from readers on Brisbane’s Olympic Games; the energy conundrum; and more music for the US election soundtrack.
- Updated
- Fortescue Metals Group
Forrest’s private Windlab sells big wind projects to Fortescue
The ASX-listed mining group has quietly taken ownership of two projects that were previously controlled by the billionaire’s private renewables developer.
- Updated
- Peter Ker and Brad Thompson
Origin-backed Octopus extends reach with Ergon Energy deal
Australia’s fourth-largest retailer has taken on Octopus’ Kraken technology platform – the first major local customer besides Origin itself.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Green hydrogen not dead despite Fortescue retreat, says Bowen
State energy ministers have unanimously reiterated their opposition to Peter Dutton’s nuclear plans.
- Phillip Coorey
Whitehaven Coal says inflation is ‘rife’
The coal miner says the cost of parts and services continues to rise despite higher unemployment, as a rail “glitch” soured its $6.4b move into Queensland coal.
- Peter Ker
Albanese sticks to hydrogen despite Fortescue retreat
Andrew Forrest ditching plans to produce 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030 has sparked questions over the government’s climate policies.
- Andrew Tillett and Brad Thompson
- Updated
- Iron ore
Labor’s hydrogen dream stalls as Fortescue slims down H2 vision
Fortescue will cut 700 jobs and slow its push into green hydrogen in a blow to the Albanese government’s plan to make Australia a hydrogen superpower supported by more than $8 billion of taxpayer funded incentives.
- Peter Ker and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Dutton a threat to energy transition’s ‘critical decade’: Bowen
Investment in renewables would grind to a halt on the election of a Coalition government, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says.
- Phillip Coorey
Meloni seeks to bring nuclear power back to Italy
Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said Rome plans to introduce legislation to enable investments in small modular nuclear reactors.
- Amy Kazmin
HMC Capital chooses battery storage for first climate investment
David Di Pilla’s asset manager will pay up to $50 million for a controlling stake in StorEnergy, which is headed by a former Spark Infrastructure executive.
- Kylar Loussikian
- Exclusive
- Renewables
Grok Ventures boss woos wealthy families for Sun Cable
The chief executive of Mike Cannon-Brookes’ private vehicle is plotting a pivot – opening it up to outside investors.
- Primrose Riordan
Winter gas woes to extend into 2025
Considerably higher demand for heating in the winter months is set to cause supply shortfalls in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- David Crisafulli
LNP to debate nuclear despite ‘intriguing’ omission
The LNP’s Queensland base will be “white-hot angry” if convention doesn’t debate nuclear energy, senior federal MP warns.
- James Hall
June
Workers threaten to ‘grind things down’ at troubled power station
The union has warned electricity prices will ultimately rise amid industrial action at the troubled Callide Power Station.
- James Hall
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Union bans delay $1.7b transport link to Western Sydney Airport
Industrial action has delayed the critical interchange for the city’s second airport by months and is sending subcontractors close to the wall.
- Campbell Kwan and David Marin-Guzman
