News Articles for Veolia

French multinational Veolia has expanded its presence in WA with the acquisition of privately owned engineering and asset maintenance firm Orontide and its 250 staff.

Acciona is tightening its grasp on the state's long-delayed and cost-overrun waste-to-energy sector, as the competition watchdog investigates its proposed deal to buy the only other plant in WA.

Spanish engineering giant Acciona has dumped French multinational Veolia from a contract to run WA's largest and most expensive waste management facility at Kwinana.

Veolia has accused a US-based water company of breaching a contract over the design and installation of a water treatment plant to supply Talison Lithium's Greenbushes project.

Delays and disputes have characterised the development of waste-to-energy plants in Western Australia.

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced a $44 million federal government cash injection into Western Australian recycling at a facility in Bibra Lake this afternoon.

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has insisted Regis Resources' McPhillamys gold project is not dead, despite controversially blocking a critical tailings dam at the site.

A major report has highlighted the challenges facing WA in meeting waste recycling goals.

Two energy plants built to convert municipal and commercial waste into electricity to power homes are on the cusp of being operational, following lengthy delays.

A spike in construction costs has halted a major government recycling project, but private companies are keen to fill the breach.

Acciona has locked out the owners of the East Rockingham Waste to Energy plant, following a dispute believed to be north of $100 million.

What it means to be an Aboriginal business is central to the debate over ‘black cladding'.

REMONDIS is planning to buy a Jandakot waste facility, as part of the global waste processor's expansion in Australia.

The consumer watchdog is seeking feedback on Veolia's divestiture offer before ruling on whether the French waste management company can acquire fellow-French competitor Suez.

Construction has commenced on Australia's first thermal waste-to-energy facility, located in Kwinana, which is expected to lead to 860 jobs.

Just hours after the developers of a $670 million waste-to-energy project announced they planned to start construction after obtaining all necessary approvals, the state government disclosed it has asked the Environmental Protection Authority to conduct further investigations.

Construction of Australia's first large-scale waste-to-energy facility will start this month in Kwinana after investment groups Macquarie Capital and DIF bought the Phoenix Energy project. Once completed at a cost of $668 million, the Kwinana facility will transform waste treatment in Perth.

SPECIAL REPORT: An emerging indigenous contractor has called for a strategic rethink of the sector after a tumultuous year.

A joint venture established by global waste management company Veolia and indigenous partner Our Country has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract covering Rio Tinto's entire Pilbara iron ore operations.

Phoenix Energy has announced major changes to its planned waste to energy project at Kwinana, with Macquarie Capital becoming lead sponsor and two European groups negotiating to take on construction and operations.

SPECIAL REPORT: For indigenous entrepreneur Blaze Kwaymullina, the Pilbara is not the remote desert that many other Australians would perceive it, but rather the crucible of Aboriginal business development in this country.

SPECIAL REPORT: Indigenous contractors are revising their business plans and moving into new sectors as the mining construction boom has waned.

A privately owned transport group that started operations in 1996 after winning a Transperth contract to run bus services in Midland has secured a major new contract in Singapore.

The companies that run Melbourne's trams and the Gold Coast's privately owned light rail service are set to enter the Western Australian market after buying one of Perth's major bus operators.

Indigenous business is thriving and growing in the north-west, but it was not an overnight success.