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Woodside reaches ‘historic’ deal with ExxonMobil to run Bass Strait operations
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-29 11:24 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Woodside has agreed to take over the operation of the Bass Strait gas assets from ExxonMobil Australia, in a “historic” deal that could unlock future gas development.

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Pension fund giant to invest $1B in Octopus renewable energy platform
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-29 11:32 pm By Christine Caulfield

Dutch pension provider APG Asset Management has partnered with renewable energy fund manager and developer Octopus Investments, vowing to invest over $1 billion into Octopus’s flagship investment fund.

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BHP worries about class action rewriting case after misinterpreting report
Class Actions 2025-07-25 11:55 pm By Andy Sidler

BHP has pushed back on reply submissions in a shareholder class action which the energy company says mistakenly interpret an internal report as putting the risk of collapse of BHP’s wastewater dam in Brazil at 25 to 50 per cent. 

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KKR invests $500M in Australian renewables company CleanPeak
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-28 11:56 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Private equity giant KKR has committed $500 million to speed the growth of CleanPeak Energy, an Australian company providing renewable energy solutions to blue-chip players in the commercial and industrial sectors.

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Engineering firm Daracon loses fight to expand NSW quarry
Construction 2025-07-28 11:43 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

NSW engineering firm Daracon Group has failed to overturn a state independent planning commission’s decision which rejected its plan to expand a hard rock quarry in the Hunter Region.

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Quintis class action says disclosure-linked share price drop ‘common sense’
Appeals 2025-07-25 11:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The judge who tossed a class action by Quintis’ shareholders should have found a restatement of assets would have materially affected the sandalwood company’s share price “as a matter of common sense”, a court has been told.

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ICJ decision could pave way for more innovative climate litigation: experts
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-25 11:52 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A decision this week from the International Court of Justice holding countries have an obligation to protect the climate from greenhouse emissions will open the door to innovative climate litigation, experts told Lawyerly. 

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BP set to exit Australian Renewable Energy Hub
Construction 2025-07-24 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

BP is reportedly set to exit one of the world’s largest renewable energy projects, located in the Pilbara, as part of a shift in strategy.

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Activists win challenge to MACH’s Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion
Environment 2025-07-24 11:52 pm By Andy Sidler

The NSW Independent Planning Commission failed to consider the local impact of climate change when approving the expansion and extension of MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coal mine, an appeals court has ruled.

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ARENA pledges $44.9M for Calix green steel plant
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-24 11:49 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has committed $44.9 million to support Calix’s development of a green steel demonstration plant using its Zero Emissions Steel Technology.

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