In one of the biggest tax payouts in Australian history, mining giant Rio Tinto will pay close to $1 billion to settle all disputes with the Australian Taxation Office.
Technology company Reflex Instruments has lost its challenge to rival Globaltechās patent for two mining survey tools, with a judge finding Reflex had not established the technology wasn’t novel and lacked an inventive step.
Embattled mining company Griffin Coal has copped a $4,000 fine after being convicted of failing to meet its financial reporting and officeholder requirements.
A judge has questioned whether Tiwi Islanders’ delay in filing an application to stop Santos from beginning drilling on an offshore gas project this month may have doomed the bid.
A judge has ordered that a competition class action against Queensland power companies Stanwell and CS Energy be made open to all energy consumers in the state, saying it was not a āplain vanillaā commercial class action.Ā
Norton Rose Fulbright has lost the co-head of its energy, infrastructure and resources team in Australia to King & Wood Mallesons, just months after the group’s other leader jumped ship to another Big Six firm.
An environmental group is challenging the approval of an extension for Whitehaven’s Narrabi coal mine, arguing the NSW Independent Planning Commission failed to consider the project’s impact on climate change.
Three AGL Energy subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $3.5 million in penalties for breaches of energy rules that led to a statewide blackout in South Australia.
Origin Energy has been hit with a record $17 million penalty for violating its obligation to protect financially vulnerable customers, including by disconnecting the services of some who were on a payment plan.
Tiwi islanders in a Federal Court challenge to the Barossa offshore gas project have won an expedited trial, but the case wonāt be heard before drilling starts in mid-July.