Energy & Natural Resources

Italian builder Webuild has lost its bid to permanently stay a SafeWork NSW prosecution over an 2022 incident while tunnelling for the Snowy Hydro expansion that allegedly gave rise to a risk of death or serious injury to two workers.

Gas giant Woodside has hit back at claims by activist groups that the federal environment minister's department "negotiated" with the company ahead of approving a 40-year extension to its North West Shelf project.

CS Energy wants a judge to recuse himself from hearing IG Power's $1 billion lawsuit over "catastrophic" incidents at the Callide coal-fired power station in Queensland in light of an earlier judgment in proceedings by the Australian Energy Regulator.

Origin Energy is urgently investigating a potential security breach in which customer data may have been compromised.

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.