Susan Bower

BROOME’S property and tourism boom, coupled with land access issues, has delivered a lucky hand to the privately owned Broome International Airport Group, the owners of Roebuck Estate.

BANKWEST is moving away from sole-branded financial seminars for small business clients, opting instead for independently run courses.

DAMPIER-Bunbury pipeline owner and operator Epic Energy remains in dispute with WA’s gas access regulator and with several users of the pipeline over matters not contained within th

AT FIRST glance, the final gas access decision on the Dampier-Bunbury gas pipeline appeared to represent a swing in favour of owner Epic Energy, compared with the draft decision con

AUSTRALIA’S first listed carbon trading company could come out of WA, as GRD subsidiary Global Carbon advances plans for a fourth quarter float.

JUST under two years ago, the owners of Broome International Airport must have wondered at the sense of their investment.

EVENTS management, hospitality, food and beverage, transport, travel and tourism businesses are the first to come to mind in response to travel security warnings and the SARS outbreak.

IT would be difficult to nominate a premier issue facing WA’s minerals sector.

EXTENDED production testing from two onshore oil wells near Dongara has delivered an additional 30,000 barrels to BP’s Kwinana refinery over the past two weeks.

THE recent elections have changed the look and feel of the City of Perth council, possibly for many years to come.

THE May 3 local government elections attracted 1210 nominations for 777 positions.

SOME City of Perth councillors and nominees have called for changes to postal voting processes, claiming some electors on the City of Perth roll did not receive postal voting packag

ALINTAGAS shareholders voted for a 50 per cent increase in payments to board members at last week’s AGM, an apparent vote of confidence at a time when corporate management fees are being questioned across Australia.

SIXTEEN wheatbelt councils frustrated with land access delays have reached agreement with three Native Title claim groups and the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council to simpl

ELECTRONIC print and mailing house Zipform conducted its own military exercise in a two-week period last month, producing 926,000 postal voting packages for the WA Electoral Commiss

MICHAEL Hunt is bemused by his Legal Elite accolade, a little sensitive that it could be just another unwelcome sign of old age. The ‘number one mining lawyer’ tag attaches awkwardly to one not entirely at ease with the general legal clique

MIDWEST Corporation — the newly merged Koolanooka Pellets and Kingstream Steel — embarked on its inaugural roadshow this week, to promote the company’s plans for a $540 million dire

IMPRESS Ventures has sold down its top shareholder position in mBox.com to 25.53 per cent, in a $518,000 on-market trade to help fund its new investment in the Cooper Basin.

AMID persistent rumours that small local listed oil and gas companies are “at risk” of not being able to continue to trade, Cliff Head junior partners, Voyager Energy and Norwest Energy, have this week denied being in danger.

KONDININ Group CEO Bill Ryan has proved his worth by pulling together a loan deal from the Grain Growers Association to rescue his organisation from a wind-up petition.

ALINTAGAS fired up investor interest last week through a deal with AMP Henderson to take over the Australian assets of US utility Aquila.

STEVEN Goh may have just left the room from Sanford Limited’s point of view, but the company’s former CEO is already talking of a new financial services start-up business.

GTL Resources has blamed WA Government departments for delaying its planned Burrup methanol plant, as the National Australia Bank holds back on underwriting a critical debt facility.

MUCH is hanging on next month’s scheduled announcement of the preferred tenderer, or possibly tenderers, to supply electricity to Western Power in six West Kimberley centres.

LOCAL explorer Victoria Petroleum is anticipating a new oil boom this year – in the region of its latest acquisition, namely the South Australian Cooper Basin, overlaid by the Eromanga Basin.

QEST Consulting Group has successfully bid for the Australian risk management operations of international heavyweight Det Norske Veritas.

AS Stephen van der Mye assumes the Western Power managing director’s mantle at the end of the month, there is plenty on which he still needs to be briefed.

PRESSURE is mounting on WA’s gas access regulator, Ken Michael, to deliver a final decision on access arrangements for the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline.

BROOME Port may have come through this year’s cyclone season unscathed, but the same claim cannot yet be made for future trading plans.

THERE are 126 outcomes possible from a choice of four City of Perth councillors from nine nominees. And each would make for an interesting combination.

DESPITE recent feverish consolidation, the future of the global gold industry remains dependent on cooperation between the mega-majors and juniors, and i

ACCORDING to government and industry estimates, Western Australia’s minerals exploration and processing industries are going to need an extra 500 terajoules of energy per day over the next 25 years.