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Premier Roger Cook and Energy and Decarbonisation Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson.

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Why bankers are calling all the shots in Collie

Sean Connery’s character in the 1987 film The Untouchables, Jim Malone, warns a fictional assassin sent by mafia man Al Capone he should not bring a knife to a gun fight.

Matt Mckenzie

Bluewaters power unit - Bluewater Coal Collie.

EnergyCommentsPremiumCollie coal deal to help shield households from bill shock

Premier Roger Cook’s move to prop up insolvent miner Griffin Coal until 2031 should help avoid a big increase in WA’s power bills, analysts say.

Matt Mckenzie

Fortescue's proposed wind turbines for Nullagine in the Pilbara

EnergyCommentsPremiumGreen power projects charge up as Fortescue presses go

Fortescue has started construction on a Pilbara wind farm amid a flurry of activity by green energy developers across the State in the opening weeks of 2026.

Matt Mckenzie

The Bald Hills Wind Farm near Walkerville in the Bass Coast region of Victoria.

EnergyPremiumWaroona council make their stance on wind farms known

Councillors from the Shire of Waroona have made their stance on future wind farms in the region known. 

Craig Duncan

The Bald Hills Wind Farm near Walkerville in the Bass Coast region of Victoria, Australia

Renewable EnergyCommentsPremiumPressure on for wind farms as 2030 coal closures draw near

The local boss of wind farm contractor Vestas is bullish that a wave of investment into the sector is looming next year.

Matt Mckenzie

Macmahon told the market it had successfully bid for the three-year extension at the Byerwen coking coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin on Wednesday. 

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Coal plus wind for Xmas adds $843m to Macmahon’s stocking

Shares in Macmahon have hit a 13-year high after the mining services group extended a lucrative coal contract in Queensland and won wind farm work in WA.

Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso

Fortescue’s Christmas Creek will be home to a green iron pilot plant that will require significant amounts of water to run.

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Thirsty pursuit of green iron raises water reserves red flag

WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will guzzle up vast amounts of water if Fortescue’s need for an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by.

Adrian Rauso

East Rockingham Waste to Energy Plant, November 2024

Administration and liquidationPremium‘Flagrant rogues’: Veolia dumps on rubbish plant sale

Waste contractor Veolia has taken the extraordinary step of publicly slamming the sale process of the collapsed East Rockingham waste to energy plant.

Matt Mckenzie

Turbine foundation preparation earthworks at the Warradarge Wind Farm.

EnergyPremiumIt’s Kojonup up and away for $750m wind plan

A group of local investors has lodged development plans for a $750 million wind farm in the Great Southern with the backing of State-owned Synergy.

Matt Mckenzie

Vulcan chair Francis Wedin and Gina Rinehart

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Rinehart’s Vulcan roars to life in Germany with $4b deal

A global rush to hoard critical mineral supplies has helped Gina Rinehart-backed Vulcan Energy Resources clinch $3.9 billion in a mammoth funding effort to build one of the only lithium mines in Europe.

Simone Grogan and Daniel Newell

Expansion is under way at Warradarge Wind Farm.

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Asbestos threat spreads to WA wind farm

A big wind farm backed by the State Government has become embroiled in widening concerns about asbestos contamination.

Matt Mckenzie

The Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines operation at the Kalgoorlei Super Pit.

EnergyCommentsPremiumMega green power deal signed for Kal’s famed Super Pit

Zenith Energy has stepped in to develop a major renewable project — likely worth north of $1 billion — in the Goldfields that will power the famous Super Pit mine.

Matt Mckenzie

EnergyPremiumKleenheat positions for WA’s battery boom

The growing solar and battery boom is in the sights of local conglomerate Wesfarmers as the company’s Kleenheat division dips a toe into green energy.

Matt Mckenzie

Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy Josh Wilson.

Federal PoliticsCommentsPremiumWA start-up gets $35m green light to slash power bills

The government is giving $35 million to a WA start-up to expand its virtual power plant operation that harnesses people’s rooftop solar so it can work in cities across the whole country.

Katina Curtis

Element Zero has officially opened it's Green Iron plant in Malaga. PIctured is Element Zero Chief Technology Officer Bart Kolodziejczyk Justin Benson-Cooper

MiningStart-up founder extends olive branch to Fortescue

One of Element Zero’s founders is keen for his start-up to work with Fortescue, a day after settling a legal battle that involved the iron ore giant spying on his family.

Adrian Rauso

East Narrogin Community Collective members Marion Price and Braden Lange in front of the transmissions lines located in their area.

RENEWABLE ENERGYPremiumNarrogin residents unite in concerns over windfarm project

Almost 100 residents in east Narrogin have banded together to call for transparency on a “monstrous” windfarm project forecast to sit in the centre of their residential area.

Hannah Whitehead

Narrogin Regional Leisure Centre pool will soon have a more energy-efficient heat pump and 200kW of solar power thanks to a $535,358 Federal grant.

RENEWABLE ENERGYNarrogin’s aquatic centre transition to solar to cut costs

A Wheatbelt shire has been granted hundreds of thousands in Federal funding to transition its aquatic centre to solar energy, in a bid to cut electricity costs and power its clean energy ambitions.

Hannah Whitehead

BUS Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines operation at the Kalgoorlei Super Pit.

EnergyPremiumGold miner going green amid Kalgoorlie power troubles

Gold miner Northern Star is the latest WA resources company planning a big investment in renewable energy, with a plan to turn the Super Pit green.

Matt Mckenzie

Roger Cook attends the unveiling of the BioIron pilot plant in June last year.

MiningCommentsPremiumRio Tinto’s green steel ambitions suffer major setback

Plans to produce iron using agricultural waste in Perth’s south from next year are no longer on the cards.

Adrian Rauso

Billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is in prime position to win from a $75m State Government manufacturing fund just months after his Whyalla Steelworks collapsed — all with the help of Alannah MacTiernan.

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Steelworks billionaire chasing slice of $75m WA deal

Billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is in prime position to win from a $75m State Government manufacturing binge just months after his Whyalla Steelworks collapsed — all with the help of Alannah MacTiernan.

Matt Mckenzie

Synergy and Bright Energy Investments are expanding the Warradarge Wind Farm amid a wave of green power projects in WA.

EnergyPremiumCould this town become home to Australia’s biggest battery?

Alinta Energy might install one of Australia’s biggest batteries in regional WA.

Matt Mckenzie

Anthony Albanese won’t commit to extending Labor’s energy bill rebate scheme, reminding Australia’s of his previous admission that the ‘rebates won’t be a permanent feature’. 

FEDERAL POLITICSCommentsAnthony Albanese coy on extending energy rebates

Anthony Albanese won’t commit to extending Labor’s energy bill rebate scheme, reminding Australians of his previous admission that the ‘rebates won’t be a permanent feature’. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

Built Robotics testing “autonomous piling systems” at the half-built 190 megawatt Cloudbreak solar farm.

MiningPremiumFortescue gets more taxpayer cash for green energy

The Federal Government will dish out $45 million to support Fortescue’s renewable energy trials in the Pilbara while chasing a separate $45m package it gave to the iron ore miner.

Adrian Rauso

East Rockingham waste to energy plant was supposed to be built by late 2022.

EnergyPremiumFresh twists for troubled East Rockingham power plant

A fight over the $377 million contract to build East Rockingham waste to energy plant has widened with a fresh court bid over key equipment.

Matt Mckenzie