Construction has begun on an Australian-first solar power plant at Rio Tinto Alcan’s Weipa bauxite mine in North Queensland. The project involves the construction of a 1.7MW solar farm at a cost of...
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QGC’s gas pipeline, connecting their LNG plant at Curtis Island to coal seam gas wells in the Surat Basin, is up for sale for a reported $4 billion plus. QGC’s parent company, UK-based BG Group, is...
Late yesterday, BHP Billiton made the expected announcement that the company would split, with a new company created to manage a selection of under-performing assets. The company said in a statement...
Five new resource exploration projects are getting off the ground thanks to a $2.1 million funding injection from the Queensland State Government. Mr Cripps said the five ‘industry priority’ projects...
Up to 2400 jobs could be created following the Queensland government’s approval of a 300-kilometre rail line linking the proposed Carmichael coal mine west of Moranbah to the port of Abbot...
Striking workers at the QCLNG plant on Curtis Island near Gladstone, who are not protected by industrial action laws, have been ordered back to work by the Fair Work Commission. The Commission made...
A Queensland-based mining company director has been accused of breaching United Nations sanctions over his involvement in a rare earths mining project in the rogue state of North Korea. Dr Louis...
A new report from the CSIRO, finds greenhouse gas emissions from Australian coal seam gas (CSG) production wells to be very low, especially when compared to the United States. The report, Field...
North Queensland could soon see it’s first working uranium mine in decades with the state government announcing it’s ready to accept applications for uranium mine projects. Mines Minister...
Adani’s massive $16.5 billion Carmichael coal mine and rail project, north west of Clermont in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, has just received the green light to begin construction after...
