The global energy agency has forecast that Australia is set to be one of the world’s leading coal and gas exporters. In its World Energy Outlook 2014 report released late last week, the International...
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Glencore has ordered compulsory closures of its coal mines for three weeks over the Christmas period to help address issues with over supply. In a statement released this morning the company said...
Member for Capricornia, Michelle Landry, claims that threats and bullying by the mining union forced members of her family living in Blackwater to quit their jobs and leave town. Ms Landry told...
The Shenhua Watermark Coal Project, south of Gunnedah, is one step closer to reality with the NSW Department of Planning and Environment recommending its approval to the Planning Assessment...
A mine worker who committed suicide in a FIFO camp last year was afraid to seek help from mine site counsellors for fear he would lose his job, a FIFO mental health inquiry has heard. Peter Miller...
A new report by analysts PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that for every dollar of production, the oil and gas sector adds 70 cents of value-add compared to an average of 49 cents for all other...
Accenture has won a lucrative contract with Northern Minerals Limited for the Browns Range Project Feasibility Study. The company will provide capital project management and procurement business...
The South Australian Liberal Party risks the loss of jobs and damaging investor confidence in the natural gas industry by moving to establish a Parliamentary inquiry into hydraulic fracturing...
The Queensland Labor Party has agreed to support the Newman Government’s proposal to dump dredge material from the proposed expansion of the Port of Abbot Point on land rather than disposing of...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has said a decision made earlier this year, to limit the use of urine testing for drugs and alcohol in the workplace, was a “significant error”. On...