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Your electricity bill reveals a stark political divide: Red-state residents pay less, while blue states gouge their citizens and businesses with exorbitant electric rates.

Almost 100 employees of Iluka Resources were made redundant in December, with the wave of white and blue-collar job cuts linked to a mine suspension near Perth announced three months ago.

Reflect. Respect. Celebrate. in the city at the 2026 Hancock Prospecting Australia Day.

BIG MINERS SHUNNING AUSTRALIA FOR MORE STABLE ARGENTINA

WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will consume vast amounts of water if Fortescue drawing upon an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by

Regular readers of this column with a critical interest in the renewables transition – differentiated from those who are blinkered true believers – will know that the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy is the Achilles heel of the Albanese Government’s strategy.

Rio Tinto has agreed to keep open its troubled Tomago aluminium smelter in return for a Commonwealth-led deal that will provide it with billions of dollars in subsidised power from the Snowy Hydro project and other renewables sources, all firmed by gas.

‘If you want to compete, and your economy ends up at risk, you’ve got to make difficult choices,’ said Brandon Craig who questioned whether Australia’s IR, tax and climate targets were at odds with its natural resource ambitions.

BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon plants in recent months

A secret confidentiality deed has blocked public access to documents about Queensland’s failed $12bn pumped hydro project that allegedly contaminated farmers’ water supply.

In the next four years Australian enterprises plan massive use of local artificial intelligence, which will require data centres that will explode the demand for electricity.

The safety of workers and the integrity of renewable energy projects across the state has been called into question last week, after a nationwide audit was launched following the discovery of asbestos in wind turbine components.