Woodside Petroleum Ltd has entered into a $100 million carbon offset program with Australian Securities Exchange-listed forestry company CO2 Australia Ltd, to offset the emissions from its Pluto liquefied natural gas project in the state's north west.
CVRD-Inco will proceed to step three of the Kalgoorlie Nickel Project, its joint venture with West Perth-based Heron Resources Ltd, and will pass on a draft program and budget for the works by Saturday.
Kambalda nickel producer Mincor Resources NL is set to increase its production by 18 per cent after today announcing approval for the $23 million development of its 100 per cent owned McMahon Nickel project near Kambalda.
Metex Resources Ltd has reached agreement to buy out its 50 per cent partner in its joint venture company Carbon Energy Pty Ltd, currently owned by CSIRO.
Sub-prime woes see Allphones put plan to sell chain on hold; Paladin slugged by output woes; How the wolf from the west plans to revive Coles; Sell-off slices $323 from Anvil's value; Poll spree at odds with RBA's inflation fight.
Investment group Babcock & Brown has entrenched its position as the biggest private sector player in energy generation in Western Australia after agreeing to buy 100 per cent of the AlintaAGL business.
A new centre for nanochemistry research linking Curtin University, the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University has been launched, four years after the concept was proposed.
Western Australia's not-for-profit housing providers are about to benefit from a major policy shift by the state government in relation to public housing.
Like many Western Australian financial services firms, Subiaco-based Keysbrook Financial Services has felt the flow-on effects of the state's booming economy.
A small group of Perth investors who continue to support the unfashionable biotechnology sector are hoping that patience will prove to be a virtue, just like for the mining investors who stuck to their guns during the tech boom and are now reaping the rew
Applications for small bar licences are continuing to trickle through to the Department of Racing, Gaming and Liquor, with the authority registering its 10th application.
As Liberal parliamentarians and power brokers assess the polls, which all point to electoral demise and thus “wall-to-wall” Labor governments for the first time ever, some have begun to suspect that November 24 will bring utter devastation.
Two men who have been quietly working away on an iron ore explorer in Western Australia's Mid West must have some empathy for tech sector businesses seeking to raise money.
Their clients have been enjoying the share market spoils for a few years now, but Alan and Kylie Brierty's decision to float the mining and civil contracting business they founded 26 years ago happened more by chance.
Glencore International AG has lifted its stake in Minara Resources Ltd from 52.2 per cent to 53 per cent through the purchase of a further 4.4 million shares in the company at a cost of $26 million.
Indonesia should be firmly in the sights of Western Australia's mining industry, with the country's economic growth rate approaching those of China and India, according to Austrade senior trade commissioner, Rod Morehouse.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of I
WA's peak business body, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA, estimates the state will need an extra 40,000 workers each year during the next 10 years to fulfil demand for jobs.
Western Australia's building and construction industry has raised concerns for the viability of some projects if a federal Labor government abolishes the Australian Building and Construction Commission, a recent survey by the Master Builders Association o
PERTH-BASED engineering firm, GRD Minproc Ltd, has won the premier's award for excellence at this year's WA Industry and Export Awards, held last week.
Rising feedstock prices and a lack of government support are threatening to derail the Western Australian biofuels industry, with the state's biggest biodiesel player suspending production at its two facilities.
AN $11 million research collaboration designed to unlock stranded offshore oil and gas reserves through improved subsea pipeline design was launched in Perth last week.
Internet service providers across Australia are upping the stakes in their competition for market share, as the industry awaits the outcome of the federal election and release of national broadband policy.
