FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Griffin coal - The Untold Story

Coalmine bailout extended on energy security fears

Despite pledging to end support for a debt-laden coalmine in regional Western Australia this year, the premier has relented and thrown it another lifeline.

AAP · Jan 21

'We can't let it fail': more govt cash for coal mine

Taxpayers will fork out $220 million to prop up a failed coal mine, critical for electricity generation in West Australia.

AAP · Dec 1, 2023

Foreign-owned mine Griffin Coal bills WA taxpayers $7.3 million to move dirt, fix machines

Taxpayers have spent millions propping up a failed foreign-owned coal mine at the centre of Western Australia's energy woes, paying for costs such as repairs to broken machinery.

ABC News · Apr 10, 2023

Indian firm with few assets and 'junk' credit rating in the middle of WA's growing energy crisis

At the centre of a deepening energy crisis in Western Australia sits an obscure Indian company with next to no assets and a credit rating deemed as junk by a ratings agency.

ABC News · Nov 14, 2022

Entire state's power system on the brink as Indian loan to Aussie miner Griffin Coal turns toxic

A giant Indian bank sits behind a slow-moving Australian energy disaster. It's a tale about billion-dollar bets gone terribly wrong, failed international ambitions and a clash of finance cultures.

ABC News · Nov 5, 2022

Failed Griffin Coal mine owes close to $1.5 billion to creditors as WA electricity grid woes loom

The failed coal mine in Collie, 200km south of Perth, owes close to $1.5 billion to creditors, with the banks urged to "come clean" on their losses to avoid a potential disaster in WA’s biggest electricity grid.

ABC News · Oct 4, 2022

WA's biggest private power station moves to take over loss-making, Indian-owned coal mine

The Japanese owners of a major West Australian coal-fired power station take court action over a loss-making mine that has failed to deliver promised coal supplies.

ABC News · Aug 31, 2022