Peter Milne

WA is in another boom, but success is a more complicated endeavour than before. How will resource companies get global customers what they want, when they want it?

Australia’s offshore oil and gas industry is waking up to a new reality beset with higher regulatory hurdles and plunging political and community support.

WAtoday reported exclusively that a major power station would be shut until January, but can now reveal the problem will last longer into summer.

“If we have an early hot spell heading into Christmas like we did last year, certainly the unavailability of Collie power station will put us at risk of having blackouts”.

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s former right-hand man Nev Power is facing fresh scrutiny for maintaining board seats at three ASX-listed companies

The federal government will spend up to $325 million on the next step to decommission the failed Northern Endeavour oil vessel, but the offshore oil and gas industry will foot the entire bill for this and similar incidents in the future.

Prospective lithium miner Liontown Resources has nabbed Tesla as a foundation customer for its Australian lithium mine and shareholders have been rewarded with a share price bump.

The ASX-listed energy heavyweights now face shareholder pressure over the enormous cost to decommission their facilities as well emissions and a warming climate.

In the video described as ‘shockingly wrong,’ Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart said humans do not cause global warming.