Jack McGinn

State Planning Minister John Carey has thrown the weight of his support behind the recently announced WA Planning Commission chair Emma Cole, after scrutiny over her appointment.

ANALYSIS: As MinRes prepares for a future without its founder, Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has moved on its gas business and countercyclically acted on an appetite for lithium.

East Perth-based Monford Group has been appointed principal engineering, procurement and construction contractor at the $250 million Glenellan solar farm in New South Wales.

A Chevron-led joint venture has been awarded a greenhouse gas assessment permit next to Barrow Island, where the company operates the Gorgon carbon capture project.

The near-term supply outlook for Western Australia’s domestic gas market has improved this year, but 2028 looms as a critical juncture in the state’s energy future.

The federal government has acknowledged the infrastructure strain facing Perth’s southern coastal corridor, committing to fund three studies into road access at HMAS Stirling.

ANALYSIS: Work in the defence sector is scaling up at Wangara-based diversified contractor Duratec Australia.

Chevron will supply 130 petajoules of gas over 10 years from 2028 to fuel Alcoa’s Western Australian alumina refineries, in a boost for the latter’s operational certainty.

The state’s peak mining lobby body has told a nuclear energy inquiry that the industry is neutral in its stance on energy sources, but stressed the importance of power access for business.

BHP, Rio Tinto, Woodside Energy and BlueScope will partner on an electric smelter ironmaking pilot project at Kwinana, as part of the state’s green iron push.

A Broome prison and emissions reduction reporting implementation are among 10 key projects the state has fallen behind on over the last year, a new progress report has revealed.

Investment to the tune of $35 million in the state’s defence industry has led to around 1,000 opportunities for jobseekers to date, according to figures from a WA government report.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed a former banking executive and an economics professor to the Reserve Bank board, following a six-month review into monetary policy setting.

ANALYSIS: Collie’s omission from the modelling that guides the federal opposition’s $331 billion nuclear plan highlights the ‘otherness’ of the state’s electricity grid.

Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton claims a $331 billion plan to rollout nuclear energy across Australia will save taxpayers as much as $263 billion compared with renewables.

The state government has approved Woodside Energy’s bid to extend the life of its North West Shelf plant for a further 50 years, in a boost for the development of the $30 billion Browse field.

Premier Roger Cook has come to the defence of the state’s environmental approvals process, after several high-profile activists took aim at Woodside’s proposed Browse project.

Hayley Cormann has been appointed by Attorney General John Quigley as a district court judge, months after her bid for Liberal preselection in South Perth fell flat.

WA author and environmentalist Tim Winton has fired a salvo at the fossil fuels sector, as the face of the controversial Environmental Defenders Office’s Christmas campaign.

Capricorn Metals will expand its Karlawinda gold project footprint, in a deal worth up to $3 million to aid its push to grow production from the Pilbara goldmine.

West Perth contractor CPC Engineering has secured two new contracts in the red-hot gold sector, bringing in $24 million worth of new work with AngloGold Ashanti and Capricorn Metals.

Goldminer Catalyst Metals has cleared $36 million worth of inherited debt, riding the wave of gold price momentum which has led to a flurry of activity in the sector this week.

Woodside has revised its engineering, procurement and construction contract with Bechtel to develop the first three trains at its Louisiana LNG project in the United States.

Horizon Power has offered to connect the proposed $30 million, 10 megawatt Junja solar farm near Port Hedland to its coastal grid, in a major boost for the shovel ready Pilbara project.

Jack McGinn and Nadia Budihardjo discuss the trends observed in the executive remuneration special feature.

Shareholder returns were not always reflected in the scale and growth of public-listed executive pay packets last financial year.

Frontier Energy has shed light on its bungled recruitment of Mark McGowan as chair, revealing the former premier had signed a letter of appointment but never locked in a start date.

Spartan Resources will tap the market for as much as $220 million, fresh off an upgrade to the mineral resource at its Dalgaranga project in the Murchison region.

Frontier Energy has revealed Mark McGowan will not join its board, more than three months after announcing the former premier as its incoming chair.

Greatland Gold has lauded the transformative potential of its $700 million deal for Newmont’s Telfer mine and the nearby Havieron gold project, as it closes in on its completion this week.

ANALYSIS: A plan to appoint Emma Cole as Western Australian Planning Commission chair would put a spotlight on her credentials, under recent changes to the state’s planning act.

Northern Star Resources will expand its gold portfolio into the Pilbara, after striking a $5 billion deal to acquire market darling De Grey Mining and its flagship Hemi project.