Energy & Natural Resources

A judge has expressed frustration over the fourth discovery fight this year in Fortescue’s trade secrets case against Element Zero, as the green iron startup claims its bigger rival is trying to drag out the litigation.

In the latest chapter of a feud between billionaires Fritz Kundrun and Hans Mende, the co-founders of global commodities firm AMCI, a court has found the sacking of the group's Australian managing director was invalid.

An appeals court has thrown out challenges by three mining giants to a Fair Work Commission decision that requires them to bargain together with a group of employees and their union.

A shareholder class action over BHP’s disclosures about a Brazilian dam that collapsed 10 years ago has settled for $110 million on the eve of trial, one of a handful of class actions to settle for over $100 million. 

A group of labour hire firms are continuing their push to disqualify former Labor MP turned Fair Work Commission deputy president Terri Butler from same job, same pay cases by the union representing coal miners.

Japan-based Mitsui has sued Esso Australia and Woodside Energy, its partners in the Kipper gas field in the Bass Strait, disputing their claims that it owes $298 million in taxes and alleging it overpaid fees to the tune of $20.3 million. 

The High Court has rejected a South Australian wind farm's special leave application seeking to overturn a ruling ordering it to make a $21 million progress payment to joint venture partners GE Renewable Energy and Elecnor.

The High Court has declined collapsed gold mine owner Kirkalocka's special leave bid seeking to challenge a finding that mining contractor Zenith had a security interest over a power plant in Western Australia 

A GFG subsidiary has lost its cross-claim in a battle with OneSteel's administrators over infrastructure assets at South Australia's Whyalla port, which is used to export the state's iron ore.

In its largest ever investment, the federal government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation has pledged $2.8 billion for the Marinus Link project to build a second underwater cable between Victoria and Tasmania.