Mining Environmental Issues

For a company that prides itself on digging out the metals for the world's clean energy future, saying nothing about its own clean energy future is not an option.

Internal BHP documents reveal how the mining giant planned to set up an iron ore processing facility in the Pilbara to cut carbon emissions before backing away from it entirely.

The mining giant's delay in the rollout of renewable energy and a fleet of electric trucks and trains in the Pilbara has raised doubts inside the company about it meeting its ambitious climate goal.

Hundreds of pages of internal BHP documents reveal how the company sold itself as a climate leader while internally finding reasons to put off action in the Pilbara.

A decade's worth of gas supply for South Australia is potentially sitting below the Limestone Coast region. But will it ever be extracted?

Roger Cook raises the prospect of gas fracking in WA's Kimberley region, warning the state could face future energy shortfalls if Woodside Energy's massive Browse project does not proceed.

After telling an Adelaide oil and gas conference "we need to get busy digging and drilling", Opposition Leader Angus Taylor bats away questions about the SA Liberal Party's resistance to fracking in the state's South East.

Producers on South Australia's Limestone Coast say they are stunned by a government proposal to lift the fracking ban in the region.

Residents plagued by dust from Australia's oldest and largest lithium mine say a plan for a free car wash by the mine's owner misses the mark.

The High Court will hear a major climate change case that could affect mining approvals, as the operator of the Mount Pleasant coal mine seeks to overturn a ruling blocking the project's extension.

The export of iron ore out of Geraldton has created jobs and growth but also lots of dust which has residents worried.

Geraldton residents say dust from expanding iron ore operations is blanketing homes, boats and businesses, fuelling fears the coastal city could turn into "the next Port Hedland".

Northern Territory taxpayers will be hit with a $75 million bill if Tamboran Resources, one of the key Beetaloo Basin fracking companies, is unable to repay its lenders.

The federal government says Magnetic South's land clearing last year was not illegal, but a conservation group says FOI documents raise questions over the validity of the decision.

A tropical archipelago just 1,500 kilometres from Australia is readying to become the world's newest country. But as Bougainville nears independence, memories of a bloody past are coming back to the surface.

Australian governments take on risk to get major resource projects up and running, so why don't they take an equity stake?

The Toprain Farming Collective is calling for greater protection of strategic cropping land in central Queensland, as Comet Ridge proposes an expansion and further development of the Mahalo Gas Hub.

The US mining giant says increased mercury emissions from its Wagerup refinery are a by-product of higher production, amid a Conservation Council appeal against its operating licence.

More than 1,000 small fish die in Darwin Port after acidic run-off from an iron ore stockpile enters a containment pond following heavy rain.

There are plans to turn the former Hazelwood coal mine in Victoria into a lake bigger than Sydney Harbour, but farmers and environmentalists are worried about the impact on nearby waterways.