The rapid increase in membership at the not-for-profit WA Sustainable Energy Association is evidence of the growing acceptance by industry of a carbon-restrained future, according to chief executive Ray Wills.
A new system for calculating developer contributions to the Water Corporation may be introduced by the state government, if recommendations by the WA Economic Regulation Authority are adopted.
Carbon trading is still inconvenient and opponents, including many export industries, want no inconvenience, according to West Perth-based lobby WA Sustainable Energy Association.
Because Western Australia's resources boom springs largely from China's economic expansion there's a danger that, in Australia at least, China will be judged solely on its economic performance.
The Perth Convention Bureau has engaged advertising agency Marketforce to develop a business events brand for Western Australia to promote better the state as an international meetings, incentive and convention destination.
Total capital raised in the agribusiness managed investment scheme industry over the 2008 financial year has dipped 5 per cent, with the wine grape category suffering the biggest fall.
The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies has congratulated the state government in reducing the backlog of mining tenement applications by 20 per cent but has urged the resources minister to do all he can to trim it down further.
Osborne Park-based Structural Monitoring Systems plc has become the latest WA technology company to hit the wall, announcing today that it would be terminating the employment of all executives and staff.
Over the month of June, the market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies featured in the Deloitte WA Index maintained record highs and performed considerably better than all other major indices.
The first stages of Perth Airport's $1 billion redevelopment have commenced with work starting on the aircraft parking apron, which will service the new intra-state terminal, Terminal WA.
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Newly-listed engineering company Emerson Stewart Group Ltd said it is on track to beat its fiscal 2008 earnings forecast, as outlined in its prospectus, by at least 5 per cent.
Around 85 per cent of accommodation providers in the metropolitan and South West region may be without clean sheets next week as Prime Laundry reveals it has been without gas for the last three days.
The state gas crisis is expected to cut Alumina Ltd's underlying earnings by $31 million for the June quarter after the company revised down the impact for the month of June.
Only one more hurdle remains for the $400 million sale of Cape Lambert Iron Ore Ltd's namesake project to MCC Mining, which today received Chinese government approval.
Western Australia's gas crisis has already cost $2.4 billion in lost turnover and is expected to rise to $6.7 billion as the state's peak business group predicts economic growth will ease this financial year.
The food-manufacturing sector requires urgent action from government if it is to remain viable in the future, according to industry representatives at the WA Business News forum.
Research and treatment of Alzheimer's disease is due to get a boost on two fronts, with a new charitable foundation to be launched this month and a second foundation commencing a $10 million fund raising campaign.
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Labor's most recent factional fracas over who will contest the safe seat of Morley - former ministerial rising star John D'Orazio or TV reporter Reece Whitby - had several interesting twists before Mr D'Orazio rejoined the ALP and then resigned to contest
Counting her father, WorleyParsons Australian managing director Peter Meurs, as one of her mentors, it's little wonder 24-year-old Lisa Grinceri has achieved business success at such a young age.
As much as $440 million in surpluses generated by member contributions to the Gold State Super pension fund could have been moved out of government reach under a $9 billion mutualisation plan halted by treasurer Eric Ripper last week.
A NEW inter-departmental group has been formed by the state government to address the shortage of sand for building and construction work in the South West.
Drought in much of the country and rising commodity prices will ratchet up the pressure on the state's food manufacturing industry, the WA Business News forum heard.
A Perth sustainability expert believes the potential business opportunities created under an emissions trading scheme (ETS) would outweigh the risk of crippling Australia's economy.
Taking over one of Perth's most popular eateries in the middle of the economic boom is among the biggest challenges Albasio La Pegna, the man who brought Funtastico to Subiaco, can recall during his 25-year career.
The Western Australian food manufacturing industry is at a crossroads, with rising costs and a changing retail marketplace threatening the sector's future viability. Janelle Macri reports.
