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Inquiry into Montara oil spill launched
Sydney :: Australia | 28 days ago
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David Borthwick has been appointed to lead an inquiry into a major oil spill off the Western Australian coast. The oil began leaking on August 21 in the Montara field near the West Atlas oil rig, more than 200km north-west of WA's Kimberley coastline,...
Tags: oil spill, Western Australian, West Australian, oil rig, Australian Greens, Montara, West Atlas
Gorgon's investment decision welcomed
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility Every ton of CO2 generated producing LNG in Australia reduces four tons of CO2 in Japan, and nine tons of CO2 in China, when used in place of coal for electricity generation. Gorgon will help to stimulate Australia's economic growth and provide energy...
Tags: Australia Gorgon, Western Australian, Chevron Australia Pty Ltd, Gorgon LNG Project, Gorgon Given Go Ahead, Chevron Corporation, Chevron Corp., gas project, natural gas, Royal Dutch Shell Plc., Australia, Sydney
'Oil slick' not from West Atlas: AMSA
Darwin :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility An ABC crew filmed an area, about 120 kilometres west of Darwin, which they say looks similar to the oil slick from the leaking West Atlas oil and gas rig off Western Australia...She says the oil slick is 170 kilometres from the Western Australian coastline.
Tags: Western Australian, oil slick
Garrett 'more idealistic than ever'
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says he is more idealistic than ever before in his parliamentary role. Mr Garrett has been criticised by environment groups for approving the $50 billion Gorgon gas development off the Western Australian coast.
Tags: Western Australian, Peter Garrett, Gorgon, environ minister, federal environ, minister peter, Mr Garrett, gorgon gas, billions gorgon, Greens Slam Garrett
Australia island gas deal sealed
Canberra :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility The project on Barrow Island will be run by US oil firm Chevron, and partners Royal Dutch Shall and Exxon Mobil, and will supply gas to China. The companies have agreed to protect the local fauna, especially turtles. However, environmentalists have criticised...
Tags: Western Australian, Gorgon LNG, West Australian, gas project, nature gas, Barrow Island, minister peter, environment minister, gorgon gas, Peter Garrett
Steelmakers fret over Rio Tinto-BHP deal
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility The joint venture will bring the massive mining business of the companies in Western Australia under one roof. "The joint venture will encompass all current and future Western Australian iron ore assets and liabilities and will be owned 50:50 by BHP...
Tags: Chinalco, Rio Tinto PLC, BHP Billiton Ltd, chinalco deal, Western Australian, iron ore, ore venture, minister kevin, Kevin Rudd
Asylum seekers' boat intercepted off WA
Sydney :: Australia | 7 months ago
Credibility 00 Updated May 5, 2009 14:41:00 The Navy has intercepted another asylum seeker boat off the Western Australian coast. Maryborough 370 nautical miles north-west of Broome, Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus said...The boat is the 11th this year to have...
Tags: Western Australian, asylum seekers
Police Arrest Hevron Resident
Jerusalem :: Israel | 11 months ago
Credibility IsraelNN.com) The police arrested Matti Shavo in Hevron on Monday for violating an injunction forbidding him from entering Judea and Samaria. Shavo, who resides in Hevron, had previously said he would not obey the injunction as he believes it is anti-democratic.
Tags: Samaria Population Growing, Samaria Regional Council, Judea, jewish population, West Bank, Israeli, ariel university, economic growth, Western Australian, growth rate
Income Management in Cannington and Kimberley
Perth :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Income management will commence in Kununurra in the Kimberley and the Cannington district of Perth on November 24, 2008. Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, and Western Australian Minister for Child...
Tags: Western Australian
Smelting joint venture caught in Apache blast
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Alumina, partners in the world's biggest producer of alumina, have cut their profit forecasts after the explosion at Apache Energy's Varanus Island plant cut gas supplies to their joint-venture operations in Western Australia. Alcoa of Australia, of which...
Tags: Western Australian, Alcoa, force majeure, gas supply, Varanus Island, apache energy, Alumina Ltd, declares force, gas blast, gas processing
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