Apache Energy Ltd has confirmed production at its Varanus Island gas facility has reached about 70 per cent while its parent company expects to seal a deal to sell gas from the Reindeer project at higher prices than existing agreements.
The state Liberal Party has today confirmed it will spend more than $44 million on the environment if it wins the state election while Premier Alan Carpenter has pledged a further $33 million to protect the state's environment icons.
State Liberal leader Colin Barnett has today committed to introduce legislation to protect Royal Perth Hospital from demolition and has indicated Troy Buswell may be appointed treasurer if the party wins Saturday's election.
Land and mortgage sales in Western Australia have plummeted to historic lows, as the Master Builders Association of WA forecasts a slow down in the residential property sector in the short-term despite yesterday's rate cuts.
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There has been mixed reactions to the Reserve Bank of Australia's widely expected rate cut with most welcoming the news but others critical that it doesn't go far enough.
A mining lobby group has outlined its election wishlist for the next state government in a bid to restore Western Australia's mining policy reputation.
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Just a few days after the Labor Party was forced to drop a web site attacking former Liberal leader Troy Buswell, the Liberals have lodged a complaint with the Electoral Commission over what it says are misleading Labor ads on uranium mining.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia has expressed disappointment at the absence of a vision for the future, and detailed plans to achieve it, by the State's politicians during the election campaign.
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State opposition leader Colin Barnett has accused Treasurer Eric Ripper of misleading the public over Japanese company Inpex Ltd's decision to build a $12 billion liquefied natural gas plant.
Como-based construction company Forge Group Ltd has posted a 121 per cent jump in net profit after tax of $6 million in its first full year as a listed entity.
Western Australia has recorded the largest fall in new home sales for the July month as the property market across the country continues to struggle with high interest rates and a slowing economy.
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Premier Alan Carpenter's election pledge to legislate a uranium ban may cost the country some $200 million in investment as one Canadian company considers a withdrawal from its Australian assets.
A loss in property revaluations has taken the shine off an increase in retail sales for Bedshed owner Joyce Corporation Ltd, which posted a net profit fall of 34 per cent for the 2008 financial year.
West Perth-based electrical engineering company LogiCamms Ltd has beaten its earnings forecasts by 18 per cent after booking a full year net profit after tax of nearly $2.9 million in its first year as a listed company.
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Rio Tinto Ltd, the world's third largest mining company, has forecast higher prices for the company's core commodities of iron, alumina and copper after delivering a record first half profit.
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A group of Western Australian property developers is still waiting to receive a planning document that would allow more than 3,000 hectares of land in the Peel region to be converted to housing.
Western Australia is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation boom, but you'd struggle to know that if you had closely followed the state election campaign.
The falling Australian dollar could play out nicely for industrial company Schaffer Corporation Ltd, which last week posted a 6 per cent increase in net profit to $11 million for the 2008 financial year.