EXPLAINED: Kooragang - The Real Truth

Orica cops $1.2m fine for exposing Kooragang workers to deadly cobalt dust

'Nothing was done for years': District Court Judge David Russell

Newcastle Herald · May 1, 2024

$1.37m demolition plans for contaminated Kooragang site

The EPA declared the land as "significantly contaminated".

Newcastle Herald · Mar 20, 2024

Kooragang project will "build the foundation" of Australia's hydrogen economy

The hub will help Orica to transition away from its use of gas.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 18, 2023

Kooragang Island drag races had 'big battles'

'We lived for drag racing'

Newcastle Herald · Mar 4, 2023

Orica says federal emissions reduction changes 'a brick through the window' of Kooragang plant

Orica slams Canberra over carbon credits

Newcastle Herald · Mar 3, 2023

Origin plans to produce hydrogen at Kooragang in 2025

About 85 per cent of the hydrogen will go to Orica.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 19, 2022

Big new Orica tank on road to Kooragang Island on Tuesday

Orica hopes to halve emissions from Kooragang Island

Newcastle Herald · Aug 14, 2022

Kooragang fire destroys car wrecking yard

More than 24 fire trucks, including two aerial appliances, were dispatched to the scene in Sandpiper Close at Kooragang around 2.45am.

Newcastle Herald · Jul 30, 2022

Train derailed at Kooragang causes traffic chaos as emergency crews respond

Traffic chaos on Kooragang Island after grain trail derails across road

Newcastle Herald · May 6, 2022

International airport closer to reality

THE push for a Newcastle International Airport goes back as far as the 1980s, when the business chamber of the day formed a committee to promote the idea. Then, in the late 1990s, Liberal Paterson MP Bob Baldwin pushed a plan by construction company Abigroup and Maitland businessman Hilton Grugeon…

Newcastle Herald · Apr 15, 2022