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Premier Roger Cook has described native title issues as the “elephant in the room” for regional WA and called on Canberra to shelve its ‘nature positive’ reforms.

The boss of a $10 billion gold major has demanded legislative changes to stop a repeat of the now infamous McPhillamys mine snub, or risk tarnishing Australia as a mining destination.

Anthony Albanese will use a speech to mining industry workers to call for a defence of the Government’s same job, same pay laws, which have been slammed by industry, ahead of their implementation this week.

The Silverton Wind Farm and Broken Hill Solar plant were supposed to produce enough electricity to power 117,000 homes. They’re supported by AGL’s 50MWh battery facility at Pinnacles Place, one of the largest in Australia. Yet Broken Hill, population 19,000, has been in a semi-permanent state of blackout since a storm brought down the transmission line connecting the town to the east coast grid.

Hancock Prospecting has deferred part of its plans to tap into the WA magnetite market and delayed a final investment decision on its proposed Ridley mine, pinning the move on approvals uncertainty and water supply.

The chief executive of the Australian Energy Market Operator has conceded there is no guarantee the country’s transition will deliver cheaper power bills.

Just one major resources project has been sanctioned in WA this year and the pipeline of future projects is thin, a review by Business News has found.

The doyen of ALP energy policy, Martin Ferguson, has called for a gas-driven power station in the Latrobe Valley in a direct policy confrontation with current Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

Minerals behemoth cuts back massive iron expansion plan in northern WA over concerns for habit of vulnerable wildlife.

Australia is falling behind Qatar and the US in the race to become the dominant supplier of LNG and the country’s dwindling ranking should stoke alarm bells in Canberra if it is to address the looming domestic gas supply crunch, one of the world’s largest energy companies has warned.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has cited a mural on a central NSW post office as proof of the existence of the blue-­banded bee dreaming story, one of the central reasons she killed the Blayney goldmine proposal despite evidence from the local land council that the story is not ­Wiradjuri tradition.

Mining giant Rio Tinto and its partner in the Rhodes Ridge joint venture have informed Federal environmental regulators that they would no longer push ahead with a long-awaited proposal to mine the Giles Mini deposit near Newman due to its impact on potential roosting sites for the vulnerable Ghost Bat.