Energy & Natural Resources

Explosives maker Orica is poised to move forward with construction on a renewable hydrogen facility in the Hunter Valley that has received hundreds of millions of dollars from the government, which hopes to export renewable hydrogen and ammonia from the hub.

The Full Federal Court has found Hansard extracts are inadmissible in Tesa Group's judicial review challenge to Fair Work Commission Deputy President and former Labor MP Terri Butler's refusal to recuse herself from the mining company's 'same job, same pay' cases.

Amazon has signed another power purchase agreement with European Energy for its Winton North solar and battery project in Victoria, adding to the $2.8 billion the tech company has invested in Australian renewable projects since 2020. 

Sibayne Stillwater's Copper Mines of Tasmania has accused construction company Ian Harrington Group of inducing a subsidiary to breach a contract for rehabilitating a closed mine near Queenstown.

The ACCC has referred global engineering and construction company Saipem S.p.A.'s proposed merger with rival Subsea7 S.A. to a Phase 2 assessment, raising concerns the deal could substantially lessen competition in the supply of infrastructure for Australia's offshore oil and gas industry.

China’s largest state-run conglomerate CITIC has asked the High Court to hear its appeal in mega litigation with Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia. 

The liquidators of the Tahmoor coal mine in NSW, formerly owned by Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, have lost their bid to disclaim a royalties deed in favour of former owner Glencore, with a judge finding it was not an “unprofitable contract”.

A judge has allowed a 50 per cent fee uplift for counsel in an epic fight over lucrative tenements in the Pilbara region, but says the hourly fees of solicitors from the likes of Allens, Clayton Utz and Corrs were already well above market rate.

A judge has found that ASIC's case against WA gold mining company Wiluna over alleged omissions in a 2022 ASX announcement should await the determination of related cases against two executives, citing the risk of inconsistent findings. 

An environmental group has criticised the NSW opposition's plan to scale back the New England renewable energy zone, calling it an “irresponsible backflip”.