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Vouchers for fixed contract businesses, guarantees for heavy industry, and investment in biorefining could ease short and long term fuel pain in WA, according to the state's peak business group.

Plans for a $500m canola crushing plant by US agribusiness Cargill in Kwinana have been lodged with the state development authority.

As WA's annual grain harvest nears 30mt, more businesses are seeing opportunity in providing avenues to export markets.

An industry group led by farmer Alan Richardson and project developer Enzo Gullotti has become the third outfit looking to build a canola processing plant in WA.

Biofuel project backers have lauded a large federal government investment into domestic processing capacity as foundational for the nascent sector.

Graincorp and Cargill are both planning crushing plants in WA, but BP's move to defer its biorefinery has raised questions about the industry.

A proposed canola crushing plant that could feed BP's half-a-billion-dollar biofuel proposal is a step closer, after Cargill signed a lease with the state government.

Rio Tinto will test a native tree's suitability as a biodiesel crop in Queensland to offset carbon emissions from its Pilbara mines.

Agribusiness Cargill Australia and the state government are in talks over a potential canola crushing plant which could feed a biofuels hub in Kwinana.

CBH Group continued to be WA's dominant grain exporter in 2020-21 with 55 per cent market share, but production from the state fell below the level of New South Wales.