Peter Milne
Journalist at boilingcold.com.au
I cover business in WA • energy & mining • climate matters • views mine • DMs open • anon tips to [email protected]
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1 week ago |
boilingcold.com.au | Peter Milne
ANALYSISAustralia's largest oil and gas company's annual verbal stoush with its detractors on Thursday produced a few chinks of light amidst the performative heat of its annual general meeting. Whistling in the windChief executive Meg O'Neill's speech was interrupted about ten times by an individual protestor loudly blowing a whistle, being pulled away, allowing O'Neill to resume, and then another protestor repeated the process.
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1 week ago |
boilingcold.com.au | Peter Milne
Hot summer nights in WA's South West helped push power demand to a record high in the March quarter when the share of power from wind and solar was more than 41 per cent. Increased use of renewable energy and less coal-fired power cut the average carbon pollution per unit of power by five per cent, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator's Quarterly Energy Dynamics Report released on Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago |
boilingcold.com.au | Peter Milne
AGL is seeking environmental approval to build a 250 megawatt open-cycle gas turbine power station in Kwinana to operate from 2029 when coal-fired power is expected to disappear from the South West grid. The WA Environmental Protection Authority released AGL's plans on Friday for seven days of public comment on whether it should review the proposal. The "K2" power station would operate as a peaking power station, supplying additional power during periods of peak and high shoulder load demands.
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2 weeks ago |
boilingcold.com.au | Peter Milne
Doctors for the Environment Australia has gone to the Federal Court seeking to overturn the final approval for Woodside's Scarborough gas project, citing concerns about its resultant greenhouse gas emissions. The offshore environment regulator NOPSEMA accepted Woodside's plan to operate the Scarborough project in February after 18 months of consultation.
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2 weeks ago |
boilingcold.com.au | Peter Milne
Restarting Alcoa's alumina refinery in Kwinana, which closed in 2024, would be a big challenge and unlikely anytime soon, according to chief executive Bill Oplinger. "It's high cost, it's complex, it has proximity to Perth, it's landlocked ... and it's old technology," Oplinger told the Melbourne Mining Club on Thursday. "There are no indications that it would be restarted anytime soon."Alcoa announced the closure of the 60-year-old refinery in January 2024.
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