Energy & Natural Resources

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.

Perth-based construction and mining contractor NRW Holdings will acquire engineering company Fredon Industries in a $200 million takeover bid.

A Tasmanian community group has lost its appeal against a decision by a local council to grant a permit for Ark Energy’s proposed St Patricks Plains Wind Farm, but a tribunal has ordered the wind farm to tweak its plans.

A judge has rejected a “finely balanced” application to transfer a court fight between Waratah Engineering and Wollongong Resources over mining equipment contracts to New South Wales.

An appeals court has dismissed BlueScope Steel's challenge to a decision finding it engaged in attempted price-fixing and was on the hook for a record $57.5 million penalty.

Woolnorth Renewables has won approval for its 400-megawatt wind farm in Victoria's south-west, the third-largest wind project approved by the state in the past decade.

A judge hearing a dispute over Emerald Resources' takeover of Bullseye Mining has rejected a bid by Bullseye's former executive director to enjoin Emerald from retaining lawyers that previously represented her for a period of three weeks in an unrelated dispute.

French renewable energy company TagEnergy has scooped up Australian renewables developer ACE Power, acquiring a portfolio of 6GW battery, wind and solar projects.

A former Peabody Energy employee who claims she was sacked after raising safety concerns has lost her bid to restrain MinterEllison from representing her former employer.