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Resources minister defends gas companies amid tax push

The gas lobby says a new levy on LNG exports will make Australia "uninvestable", arguing comparisons to countries like Norway don't stack up.

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Australia won't join Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade

Australia has not been asked to help stop ships travelling through the critical Middle East waterway and doesn't expect to be, the prime minister says.

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Gas giants warn against windfall gains tax as Pocock says ‘wartime profits’ should go to struggling Australians

Government faces political fight as industry says mooted 25% levy on exports would hurt Australia’s economy and energy security

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Servos under the pump over quickfire fuel price hikes

Petrol and diesel prices were hiked dramatically almost straight after war broke out in the Middle East, the consumer watchdog has found.

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Climate wins eyed in diesel tax credit demise

Repealing the diesel fuel tax credit for miners would help turbocharge industry decarbonisation in a state behind on its emissions-slashing targets.

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'Galling': Aussies set to pass up another gas windfall

War in the Middle East could drive energy prices towards record highs, but a failure to fix gas taxes means Australians will miss out on their share of profits.

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Japanese gas giants' Canberra lobbying record exposed

A complex web of investment, lobbying and public messaging is thought to be prolonging the life of the gas industry in Australia and the broader region.

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Australian ministers met Japanese gas companies 20 times amid fossil fuel lobbying push

Thinktank analysis claims to show that Japan campaigns to prolong the carbon industry in Australia and hinder move to clean energy

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Festival dumping calculated, says Palestinian author

Dumped author Randa Abdel-Fattah says attempts to police speech will backfire as more than 100 writers quit a besieged literary festival in solidarity.

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Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed?

Despite billions in investment, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics say

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Woodside boss says young people ‘ideological’ on fossil fuels while ‘happily ordering from Temu’

Meg O’Neill tells energy industry conference that individual consumers’ role in driving emissions is ‘missing’ in conversations about fossil fuels

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More gas projects, less green tape call at energy event

Gas giants have called on the Australian government to approve projects faster and let them explore more mining opportunities.

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Uranium miner backs off challenge to Jabiluka decision

A bid to overturn a decision not to renew the controversial Jabiluka mineral lease looks set to be abandoned as Rio Tinto moves to take over a uranium miner.

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Coalition says it will allow gas producers to access $4bn net zero fund for critical minerals

Shadow resources minister tells Sydney conference Coalition would give gas the same status as a critical mineral to boost industry funding

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'Infected': minister criticised over uranium mine lease

A federal minister was allegedly biased after refusing to extend the lease for an undeveloped uranium mine due to a "promise" made to the traditional owners.

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Australia will not revise critical minerals-for-tariffs exemption deal rejected by Trump administration

Resources minister says she is ‘sad’ the US did not embrace a more reliable supply of minerals for renewable energy and battery technologies

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Australia needs to 'step up' critical minerals supply

Australian firms need to sharpen their focus on critical minerals to power the world's green energy transition, an international relations conference has heard.

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Australian investment eyed for Peruvian mining pipeline

Some 50 Peruvian mining projects with a combined potential of tens of billions of dollars are being spruiked to Australian investors amid Chinese dominance.

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The Conversation

In Slick, Royce Kurmelovs exposes just how long, and hard, the fossil fuel industry has worked to advance its interests

If Australia was a small developing country, then the ability of the oil and gas industry to exploit our political system, and in turn our natural resources, would make perfect sense. Most people have read stories of multinational companies bending the domestic policies of developing countries to suit the interests…

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Albanese government issues ‘preliminary refusal’ of Pep11 gas project previously vetoed by Scott Morrison

Asset Energy has 30 days to respond to industry minister Ed Husic’s request for further information about the proposed gas project off Sydney’s coast

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Traditional owners join legal spat over Jabiluka mine

Traditional owners will continue their fight against the Jabiluka uranium mine by contesting a legal bid by a Rio Tinto subsidiary to extend the mining lease.

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Government 'secrecy' blasted over Jabiluka uranium mine

A uranium mining firm has accused the federal and Northern Territory governments of hiding their reasons not to extend a 42-year lease to the Jabiluka mine.

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Huge gas fields – under a coral reef. Will a rejection on environmental grounds stop Woodside’s Browse project?

For decades, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company, Woodside, has eyed off a prize: the largest known unconventional gas fields in the nation.

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Companies behind Pep11 ask court to force Albanese government decision on NSW gas project

The development, planned to be offshore from Sydney to Newcastle, was vetoed by Scott Morrison when resources minister

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Permits for new gas exploration risk 'climate disaster'

Australia needs more gas to fast-track the phase out of coal, explorers say, but critics warn new offshore gas exploration permits are a "climate disaster".

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