Energy & Natural Resources

Activist group Friends of Australian Rock Art have alleged environment and water minister Murray Watt "cherry picked" potential economic and social benefits of Woodside's North West Shelf project while ignoring the harms.

Renewables company Neoen has begun construction on its 179 MW Narrogin wind farm in Western Australia after signing a long-term power purchase agreement with state government-owned Synergy. 

Gold producer Evolution Mining has won an initial trial against the Australian Tax Office over a purported decision to cancel the transfer of $31 million in tax losses after it acquired Conquest. 

Communications between the environment minister's department and Woodside over the gas company's controversial North West Shelf project raised concerns about the apprehension of bias, activist group Australian Conservation Foundation has told a trial judge.

Transgrid has commenced work on a grid stabalisation project that was fast-tracked by the NSW government as a priority network infrastructure project that's critical for the clean energy transition.

The litigation funder that backed a recently settled shareholder class action against the directors of collapsed mining company CuDeco and KPMG will seek a 35 per cent cut from the settlement.

A Singapore-listed company that acquired former ASX-listed coal miner Blackgold International is statute-barred from claiming that Blackgold’s former lead auditor should have detected fraudulent transactions in the company’s accounts.

Danish renewables company European Energy has reached financial close on its Mokoan hybrid solar farm and BESS in Victoria, with a non-recourse financing package from Deutsche Bank paving the way for construction to begin on the storage system.

A Southern Cross Gold unit has attacked a community group’s failure to put on evidence of its members' financial status to support claims that it can't meet the company’s $230,000 security demand in a dispute over a Victorian tunneling project. 

Energy infrastructure company APA Group has won the Australian Energy Regulator's approval for a proposed $213 million expansion of Victoria's South West pipeline, which will help address projected peak-day gas shortfalls from 2029.