An environmental activist has chained himself to a rail line used by coal trains outside the Port of Newcastle as part of multiple protests being staged today around New South Wales against...
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Reports that the NSW Government plans to extend its freeze on natural gas exploration has made the country’s peak oil and gas industry body very grumpy indeed. In a statement released this...
Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery Coal Mine in the Gunnedah Basin received approval to proceed from the New South Wales Government late yesterday. The project is located about 25 kilometres north of Gunnedah...
Minister for Immigration, Scott Morrison, yesterday flagged the government’s intention to water down English language requirements for Australia’s skilled migration programs, prompting dire safety...
Construction of a 1000 kilometre gas pipeline linking infrastructure between Alice Springs and Moomba in South Australia is being considered by Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane as a way of creating a...
The South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy (SACOME) has welcomed the announcement by SA Premier Jay Weatherill this week that unlocking South Australia’s mineral and energy resources is the...
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...
Papua New Guinea’s autonomous region of Bougainville passed Friday a new mining bill that strips significant rights from Rio Tinto’s subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited , according to mining.com...
The NSW Government’s strategic statement on coal, released yesterday, provides welcome clarity as to the government’s policy direction on coal mining, according to the NSW Minerals Council. “Today’s...
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...
