PERTH broker State One’s online trading service, Amscot Discount Stockbroking, has taken out the top ranking for services aimed at high volume share traders in an annual review of the online share trading sector.
VERVE Energy’s Muja A/B coal-fired power station remains a bigger threat to maintaining air quality around Collie than larger coal-fired developments planned in the region, the state’s environmental watchdog has found.
FOR Victorians eyeing Western Australia’s resources boom with envy, oil and gas giant Woodside Petroleum must represent the most frustrating case of the one that got away.
WESTERN Australia can attain its ambitious target of achieving 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, but only if it embraces a broader spread of renewable technologies, delegates at a Perth energy forum have been told.
WESTERN Australia is poised to further boost its global standing in the liquefied natural gas industry by becoming the world leader in revolutionary floating production facilities able to unlock trillions of cubic feet of previously stranded gas.
THE casualty toll from the federal government’s planned resources rent tax continues to rise, with a growing number of local miners indicating plans to mothball planned Australian spending.
The behaviour of Australian companies working overseas is under renewed scrutiny following news of an investigation into BHP Billiton for possible corruption.
MULTIPLE reviews of the state energy sector are creating widespread uncertainty that could threaten future investment, according to the state’s chief independent regulator.
A MAJOR shake-up is looming on Barrow Island as work accelerates on the $43 billion Gorgon gas project, with oil producer Santos considering the sale of its stake in the separate oil venture on the island.
A FRESH attack on the Rudd government’s proposed emissions trading scheme has added weight to calls for the existing proposal to be scrapped and redrawn.
Len Buckeridge has stepped up plans for a $278 million privately operated container port near Kwinana, with the release of environmental scoping documents for the massive development.
THE Federal Court is the last remaining obstacle to a $3 billion merger of Perth billionaire Kerry Stokes WesTrac heavy equipment business and the Seven Network, following overwhelming approval of Seven’s minority shareholders this week.
MINERS will have a united national voice on key issues for the first time following a landmark alliance between the states’ mining chambers and the industry’s peak lobby group, the Canberra-based Minerals Council of Australia.
Perth- based Orbital Corporation announced today that it has applied for the listing of its American Depositary Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange's subsidiary Amex board for small companies.
A FRESH poll by business leadership group Executive Connection has found that 80 per cent of Western Australian chief executives believe that a looming skilled labour shortage is the priority issue faced by WA companies.
THE administrators of Rick Stowe's failed Griffin coal and power businesses will meet with sales advisers this week to belatedly kick-start planning to recover more than $1 billion owed to creditors.
