Western Australia has received little in the federal government's $4.7 billion nation building package designed to help combat the affects of the global financial crisis, receiving a total of $318 million.
Shares in West Perth-based Bass Metals have jumped as high as 40 per cent today after it reached agreement to buy the Hellyer processing plant from Intec for $4 million.
THE company behind the redevelopment of the old Swanbourne Hospital site says it will review its position following the State Administrative Tribunal's decision to back the City of Nedlands' rejection of the proposal.
Premier Colin Barnett says he cannot guarantee reliable power supply for Western Australia for the next three years, as he delivers his "school report" into his first 79 days in office.
Como-based Aquila Resources says it is seeking potential co-developers for a port at Anketell Point, which has been selected as the preferred port site for the $4.1 billion West Pilbara iron ore project.
Atlas Iron has celebrated a milestone at its Pardoo iron ore project in the Pilbara with the shipment of first ore through Fortescue Metals Group's Herb Elliot port.
CITIC Pacific Mining is on the recruitment drive for 100 workers across a variety of roles in a bid to get its Sino Iron magnetite project at Cape Preston in production by 2010.
AFTER much controversy in recent years surrounding the remuneration package for the position of director general of Health in Western Australia, this vital public sector role once again topped the list of public sector executive pay packets in WA.
The state government has over-ruled the Esperance Port Authority, ordering it to continue bulk nickel concentrate shipments next year, while also approving the export of lead stockpiled at the port.
The joint venture partners in the Cossack Wanaea Lambert Hermes oil operation, located offshore Western Australia, have approved a $1.8 billion redevelopment project that will extend production beyond 2020.
Business backlash over 'dangerous' union era; Rio Tinto may put brakes on Pilbara spending; China slump heightens export fears; OZ extends trade halt on debt fear; Stand-off looms after Barnett backs Esperance nickel exports
The state government says it will wait for an indication of federal funding for the $1.5 billion development of the Oakajee port and rail project before finalising an agreement with the proponent.
The state government is seeking public comment on a new rail-based transport connection in Kwinana to alleviate heavy vehicles using main roads between Fremantle and Forrestfield.
THE controversy over lead exports from Esperance may have attracted intense public focus over the past two years, but a potentially larger commercial issue that remains unresolved is the future of bulk nickel concentrate exports.
Fortescue Metals Group has told engineering company NRW Holdings to walk off the Cloudbreak-to-Christmas Creek rail line site in the Pilbara because construction has been deferred.
Yilgarn Infrastructure has continued its rearguard bid for a slice of the planned Oakajee port and rail project, claiming today that its Chinese partners would not work directly with the government's preferred bidder.
West Perth-based IronClad Mining has entered into an agreement with a Chinese steel making company over the development of two of its iron ore projects in South Australia.
Murchison Metals has disclosed that the state government is requiring it to include Chinese suppliers in its $1.5 billion Oakajee port and rail infrastructure project.
Engineering firm, SKM has taken out the top prize at the Engineers Australia, Engineering Excellence Awards for its work on Rio Tinto Iron Ore's US$1.4 billion Dampier Port Upgrade in the Pilbara, with two Western Australians taking out individual honours
IN her doctorate on the impact of fly in, fly out (FIFO) on workers, the University of Western Australia's Susan Clifford has found that FIFO is not having the deleterious effect the tabloid headlines would have us believe.
THE global financial crisis may be pushing down energy prices, but there are concerns that this could ultimately hurt local power users more than benefit them.
Canning Vale-based electrical contractor, Electrical Construction & Maintenance Australia took out the Industrial category award for excellence at the National Electrical and Communications Association Awards held last week.
EFTel has formed a strategic partnership with NEXTEP Broadband, a division of NEC Australia, which will see the Perth-based internet service provider expand its BroadbandNext network by 55 additional sites.
IF the economic slowdown has some in the Western Australian engineering sector looking over their shoulders, Maunsell AECOM is claiming not to be one of them.
