State-owned West Australian power provider Synergy has been handed a stinging rebuke by the independent energy umpire, which found the utility unlawfully gouged customers tens of millions of dollars. Key points: Synergy was found to have artificially inflated its prices more than 11,000 times This resulted in overall extra costs to consumers of up to $192 million The retailer's market …
The federal government has approved two new offshore greenhouse gas storage areas, off the coast of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. "Woodside and other companies also have other abatement programs, because they know CCS is not the entire answer, whether that's forestry projects or otherwise, there are other means of carbon sequestration and offsets," she said. "Carbon capture and …
Good news and bad luck have at least one thing in common. Then, on Thursday night, monumental rulings – one by a Dutch court, the other by global investors – threatened to change the course of three of the world's biggest fossil fuel suppliers. Photo shows Scott Morrison and Andrew Forrest The federal government vows to spend an extra $539.2 …
Chevron has "deliberately mismanaged" its carbon sequestration project at the Gorgon gas facility in Western Australia in order to avoid its environmental commitments, a WA conservation group has alleged. Key points Chevron's Gorgon gas facility on Barrow Island, WA began production in 2016 Carbon dioxide extracted from the gas was to be sequestered by pumping it more than 800 metres …