AN administrative blunder by copper miner Aditya Birla Minerals has set the scene for another David and Goliath battle over mineral resources in the Pilbara.
IT has the potential to become one of the great ironies of Western Australia's unfolding LNG boom - hot rocks powering the Pilbara's accelerating oil and gas-based economy.
IF prominent businessman Michael Chaney's actions are anything to go by then Western Australia's corporate sector is poised to enhance its social responsibility through the new Centre for Social Impact at the University of Western Australia.
THE green light for the Gorgon gas project has boosted the share prices of most of the contractors vying for a slice of the estimated $43 billion cost to build Australia's single biggest resource project.
POLITICIANS were wrong to claim the $43 billion Gorgon LNG project alone would keep all the state's workshops ticking over, leading engineers and contractors have warned.
PERTH'S commercial office market and the state's building industry are both looking to big gas developments such as Chevron's Gorgon project to be a key driver of activity.
FARM groups have welcomed the introduction of a grain trucking scheme that allows transporters an extra 10 per cent load when transporting grain at harvest.
The Barnett government has named 34 state schools that will have independent status within the public system as part of a new policy to give more grass roots control to the school.
Western Australian farmers are the nation's most independent with a new study showing they are receiving less financial assistance compared to those in other states.
The Barnett government has performed strongly in regulatory reform in its first year in office but must now deliver on its reform promises, a Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA scorecard has concluded.
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Transport Minister Simon O'Brien has approved a harvest management scheme that allows grain transporters an extra 10 per cent load when transporting grain at harvest.
Perth-based architecture firm Silver Thomas Hanley, as part of a joint venture, will plan the major stage C redevelopment of South Australia's Lyell McEwin Hospital, with the project valued at $200 million.
West Perth-based Leyshon Resources says it will look to acquire more projects after selling its majority interest in a Chinese gold project for $US34 million ($A39 million).
The government's commodity forecaster has revised down its minerals and energy export earnings projection for 2009/10 as a result of lower contract prices for bulk commodities.
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Perth's oldest stockbroking firm, DJ Carmichael, is looking to beef up its corporate finance team as Ian Dorrington is appointed managing director and Brian Hockney as chairman.
The opening of the $705 million Kwinana Freeway extension and Forrest Highway on the weekend has marked the official completion of the State's largest road project.
Rising LNG, iron ore and gold exports saw the value of Western Australia's mineral and petroleum industry rise by 19 per cent to a record $71.3 billion in the year to June 2009.
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CITIC Pacific says it is meeting with unions over claims that workers at its $5.2 billion Sino iron ore project near Karratha have been exposed to unsafe levels of asbestos.
The Mid West shires of Mingenew, Three Springs, Morawa and Perenjori have agreed to form one new local government, as the deadline for voluntary council amalgamations nears.
