Energy & Natural Resources

A director of defunct Arrium has told a court he didn't believe it was necessary to revisit the steelmaker's iron ore price assumption before approving the company's 2014 accounts, even after the price fell significantly.

A developer has lost its bid for preliminary discovery for a possible case against the Dampier Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline over representations made about pipeline upgrades needed for a proposed development in the town of North Dandalup.

A judge has given the liquidators of Tahmoor Coal the green light to expand their case against Sanjeev Gupta's Clydesdale Engineering Limited to allege that an additional loan document and more than $28 million in payments were part of an alleged voidable transaction.

A judge has found that new planning rules that make solar farm development applications more onerous in Queensland applied retrospectively to X-Elio’s proposed solar project in the Western Downs region. 

Origin Energy has completed a review into the information exposed in a cyberattack that affected 900,000 current and former customers, revealing the full bank details for a small number of customers were accessed.

Mardathoonera woman Raelene Cooper has taken Chevron and offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA to court over environmental approvals for a project for maintaining gas production from its Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia.

The Australian Energy Regulator must repay AGL a $25 million penalty secured by the watchdog in a Federal Court case, after the power company prevailed on appeal.

The Tamworth local council has lost its bid to inspect advice given by Baker McKenzie to the owner of the Hills of Gold wind farm in regional NSW as they fight over costs in a development consent dispute.

The ATO has lost its appeal of a ruling that put it on the hook for $35 million after a judge found it received millions misappropriated by a former Kupang Resources director in order to satisfy a tax debt against him. 

The former majority owner of NY-based Infrastructure Capital Holdings has won its bid for documents ahead of mediation in a suit alleging Foresight Group Holdings undervalued the company's investments in Kinetic and Zenith Energy, which sold for a combined $5.7 billion last year.