Energy & Natural Resources

Mobil Oil has agreed to pay a $16 million penalty after admitting it ran false ads in far North Queensland claiming it was selling a specific brand of fuel with certain benefits, when in fact it was suppling ordinary fuel. 

A class action on behalf of thousands of victims of the December 2019 Cudlee Creek bushfire has reached a confidential settlement with two individuals, while claims worth $200 million against SA Power Networks have proceeded to trial. 

Law firm HFW has expanded its global construction practice by snagging a leading construction lawyer and his team to capitalise on Queensland's construction boom.

Billboard company Manboom has suffered a loss in its case against Jemena Gas alleging the presence of underground gas infrastructure at a site in Mascot, NSW that supplies gas to 1.6 million customers amounts to trespassing.

AGL has agreed to sell the lion's share of its equity stake in Tilt Renewables to the Queensland Investment Corporation and Australia's sovereign wealth fund for $750 million.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will invest $45 million into Fortescue's first-of-its-kind solar innovation hub in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

In its case accusing Australian Gas Networks of greenwashing with ads promising gas was “becoming renewable”, the consumer regulator is pushing the company to identify who it says had reasonable grounds for the statements.

Acciona is mulling a bid to summarily dismiss a "hopelessly flawed" patent suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant project, saying it is doomed in light of a High Court decision holding a patentee’s rights are exhausted at the time of sale.

Acciona is facing what it says is a "hopelessly flawed" suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant over patented equipment used to facilitate waste combustion. 

The government has granted speedy approval to a solar farm and BESS on cleared land near Toowoomba in Queensland.