Energy & Natural Resources

In the first climate change case to reach its doors, the High Court has been urged to reject Mach Energy’s “strict approach” to considering the local impacts of its Mount Pleasant coal mine extension under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act.

Shell’s Australian arm has succeeded in challenging a finding by the ATO that it needed to pay an additional $99 million in capital gains tax after it disposed of its 34.27 per cent holding in Woodside Petroleum.

A judge has allowed Adani unit Bravus to bring a $22 million counterclaim against Isaac Regional Council in Queensland, alleging it breached an agreement to upgrade a 96-kilometre road to access the Carmichael mine.

Addressing for the first time the question of compensation for 'future acts' under the Native Title Act, a judge has ordered Fortescue Metals Group to pay $150 million to compensate the Yinjibarndi people for losses stemming from the mining company's Solomon Hub iron ore project.

AkzoNobel has lost its bid to add new expert evidence after the conclusion of trial in a dispute with Inpex over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.

Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed a partner from US firm Sidley Austin to join its Asia Pacific energy and infrastructure practice. 

Tronox has won its case against former employee who was found to have published confidential information on LinkedIn, with the employee also losing a recusal application that cited the judge’s Indigenous heritage.

A landmark case over the expansion of Mach Energy’s Mount Pleasant coal mine will go to the High Court next week, marking the first time the court considers whether planning authorities have to consider the local climate impacts of fossil fuel projects.

Clayton Utz has recruited a projects partners from Allens to strengthen the firm's resources and infrastructure practice.

Only one of six witnesses of explosive blasts at Whitehaven's Maules Creek coal mine, which is the subject of criminal EPA proceedings, will give evidence by audio-visual link at trial, with a court finding their credit may be in issue.