Mark Beyer

Mineral Resources announced today that it plans to use its 12 per cent stake in Aquila Resources to push for a role building and operating the proposed $7 billion West Pilbara iron ore project.

One month after the state government named an Asciano-led consortium as preferred proponent for a major port expansion at Esperance, it has emerged that one of the key consortium members has withdrawn.

Does it make sense for a gas producer to retain title over a gas field for 27 years without proceeding with development?

Fortescue Metals Group has called for the phasing out of the state government’s contentious domestic gas reservation policy, which has traditionally been backed by big gas buyers, in favour of stricter application of the ‘use it or lose it’ rules.

The potential strike action at Port Hedland has brought into sharp relief key workplace relations issues facing Australia.

Eric Streitberg has taken charge of Buru Energy after chairman Graham Riley resigned, on the same day that shareholders delivered a massive protest vote at the company’s annual meeting.

AnaeCo director Ian Campbell has lost control of his 6.5 per cent stake in the waste treatment company after the shares were used as security for separate loans.

Seventeen Western Australian business people have been nominated as finalists in the 2014 round of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award.

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