Energy & Natural Resources

The Australian Energy Regulator has brought a High Court challenge to orders that it return a $25 million penalty paid by power company AGL for overcharging hundreds of customers receiving Centrelink payments.

The Queensland Land Court has recommended the approval of Bowen Basin Coal's Meadowbrook project to extend its Lake Vermont open cut coal mine near Dysart, over objections from environmental activists.

Administrators of OneSteel Manufacturing will shutter the blast furnace at the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia and let 600 workers go, after the failure of recovery efforts to restore operations.

CIMIC Group subsidiary UGL has been awarded a contract for APA Group's $259 million Sybella Creek Solar Farm and Battery Energy Storage System project in Mount Isa, Queensland.

A Full Federal Court is set to hear BHP's challenge to the employment law underpinning a union's class action, with the energy giant to argue that the Fair Work Act provision governing public holidays is not capable of breach.

A judge has tossed a case by Singaporean commodities trader UIL, finding it did not have binding agreements to buy 500,000 metric tonnes of coal annually from two NSW coal miners controlled by Jindal Steel.

In their defences to a shareholder class action, Mineral Resources’ and founder Chris Ellison have denied that two payments totalling $3.8 million needed to be disclosed to the market as related party transactions.

Perth Airport will pay United Petroleum $8.7 million after the company built a larger petrol station on the basis of the airport's representations that the Qantas terminal would be relocated. 

Oil and gas company Beach Energy has agreed to pay $43. 5 million to settle a shareholder class action on the eve of trial.