Fossil fuels
Opinion
Energy
It’s not easy being green for UK and European oil giants
The oil super majors are eyeing shifting their primary stock exchange listings to New York as a stronger push to reduce fossil fuels in their home markets weighs on their share prices.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Oil giant plans to move 60,000 tonnes of steel, rig waste to UN-listed wetlands
ExxonMobil says it will recycle and repurpose 95 per cent of the material from offshore oil and gas platforms, but the plan has fishers and environmentalists worried.
- by Bianca Hall
Views split on Woodside’s climate stance as investor vote looms
The company’s credibility will be put to the test this month when backers have their say on its emissions plan and the future of chairman Richard Goyder.
- by Nick Toscano
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Gippsland
‘Sheen’ in water: Ageing oil pipeline off Gippsland coast shut off as leak probed
A pipeline linking two oil platforms is being investigated as the source of a suspected hydrocarbon spill in Bass Strait.
- by Bianca Hall
After years of promises on climate change, oil giants are backtracking
Fossil fuel majors are choosing profits over plans to bring a clean future closer.
- by Nick O'Malley
Australia’s fossil fuel giants set to take multibillion-dollar hit
Australia’s gas and coal exporters face a tricky next five years with prices expected to keep tumbling.
- by Nick Toscano
Winter gas threat grows in Victoria, NSW as offshore fields dry up
Gas users are in danger of winter shortfalls sooner than originally feared as ExxonMobil and Woodside’s Bass Strait production fields dry up.
- by Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
‘Bring it on’: The plan to get SUVs, monster utes off Sydney’s roads
Paris residents voted to triple parking fees for big cars. Should Sydney do the same to make its streets safer?
- by Andrew Taylor
Exclusive
Coal
Coal companies to reap up to $1 billion compensation before price cap winds up
Chris Bowen is ready to lift the cap on the coal price, but he has not yet made the final call.
- by Paul Sakkal
Opinion
Climate crisis
I was a corporate greenwasher. Sorry for making you think metal straws would fix climate change
This wasn’t the creative life I pictured when I set out to become a writer. But it was a line of work I excelled at. I helped businesses rebrand it as a matter of lifestyle, solved by reusable cups and composting.
- by Wendy Syfret
Analysis
COP28 Dubai
What COP28 achieved – and what it failed to do
For the first time in COP’s 28-year history and in the face of fierce opposition from some states, fossil fuels were explicitly named in the event’s final text.
- by Nick O'Malley