Energy & Natural Resources

Baker McKenzie has lured a Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer partner to head the firm's project finance team, specialising in infrastructure and power projects.

The tax commissioner is challenging last month's loss in a $948 million capital gains dispute with Malaysia's YTL Power.

Days out from hearing a second challenge to a native title tribunal’s decision over Santos' Narrabri gas project in New South Wales, a judge has disqualified herself from the case over her associate’s previous work for the energy giant.

The applicant in a failed class action against Queensland utilities Stanwell and CS Energy can't get its hands on fee invoices as it prepares its response to a claim for recovery of what could be up to $40 million in costs.

Mining Services International is taking a $1 billion dispute over the terminated sale of a mine in Bahia to the High Court, after the receiver for Brazilian mining company Atlantic Nickel won a bid to stay the case.

Mike Cannon-Brookes' SunCable has signed a 70-year land use agreement with Traditional Owners to develop the country's largest solar farm at Powell Creek Station in the Northern Territory. 

Spanish multinational electrical giant Iberdrola has been selected to design and operate the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West transmission project, part of the state's pipeline of new energy infrastructure projects.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has put the development of its steel-making decarbonisation technology BioIron on ice, opting instead to invest $35 million into Calix's zero emissions steel technology demonstration plant.

A United Nations special rapporteur has sought to intervene in three Federal Court cases opposing the federal environment minister's decision to approve gas giant Woodside's North West Shelf extension.

Ashurst has nabbed an internationally recognised infrastructure expert from Deloitte to lead Ashurst Risk Advisory's infrastructure and energy transition team.