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Rio Tinto, Chinese partner open $2B Western Range iron ore mine in Australia
Rio Tinto and Chinese Baowu said they have officially opened the Western Range iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara ...
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Rio Tinto opens $2bn Western Range iron ore mine in Australia
The project involved construction of a primary crusher and an 18km conveyor system connected to the existing Paraburdoo ...
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Australia Extends License for Nation’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Project
Last week, the Australian government announced it had given preliminary approval for the country’s biggest fossil fuel ...
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Ancient Rock Art Site in Australia Under Threat After Government Extends Life of Nearby Gas Mega-Plant
The Australian government recently extended the life of a liquified natural gas project near a 50,000-year-old rock art site ...
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Australia’s largest carbon emitter proposes big expansion to WA gas power plant
Australian utility AGL Energy is proposing an up to 250 megawatt expansion to its existing gas-fired power plant in Kwinana, near Perth ... On Friday, Western Australia’s Environmental ...
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Cement Australia, Holcim, HMA and Adbri's proposed acquisition of BGC Cementitious
It has operations in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, ACT, Western Australia and ... BGC Quarries and BGC Asphalt. Six of BGC Concrete’s RMX sites in greater Perth, specifically ...
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From Western Australia to Oslo, the walls are caving in on the net zero fantasists as the costly renewables experiment crumbles across the globe
On Tuesday of this week, BP announced that it has shelved its plans to develop a $1 billion green hydrogen plant at its former refinery in Western Australia ... temperature in Perth hit 44C ...
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Construction commences on Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant project in Australia
Construction work on Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant located in Perth, Western Australia, Australia commenced in Q4 2024, after the project was announced in Q1 2016. According to GlobalData, who ...
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Perth homeowners could be paid to plant trees in bid to thicken canopy coverage
A new green policy offering cash to plant more natives aims to thicken Perth’s ailing tree canopy ... it will massively benefit Western Australians during this cost-of-living crisis, as all ...
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Union fears for Port Kembla's future after WA wins Australia-first green iron plant
Western Australia has won a three-way battle ... $75 million to build an Electric Smelting Furnace (ESF) plant in Kwinana, south of Perth. The scale of the investment reflected the WA ...
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Electric smelting furnace pilot plant for iron making to be located in Western Australia
Australia’s two largest iron-ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location ... to life right here in Western Australia. “A successful ...
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‘Don’t want nuclear power’: Wild scenes as protestors storm Perth’s CBD during inquiry into nuclear energy
Nuclear Free WA convener Liam Lilly said the Perth ... Bowen said Australia needed new, cheap power now, not expensive power in 20 years. “Ageing, expensive and unreliable coal plants are ...