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Tensions are boiling between resources powerhouses Woodside and Fortescue in Western Australia’s latest climate clash.

TAXPAYERS will fund Swiss mining giant Glencore to the tune of $600 million over three years to save its ailing copper facilities and potentially hundreds of jobs.

Fortescue will be a big customer for zero-emissions mining equipment from China, having learnt the lesson that developed nations cannot compete with China on manufacturing.

German energy giant RWE has scrapped plans to develop a major offshore wind farm in Victoria, delivering a fresh setback to the state’s already fragile energy transition.

Green energy company Fortescue is expected to lay off hundreds of workers in the UK and Australia as it downsizes the company.

Woodside Energy will vigorously defend two Federal Court challenges to its North West Shelf extension, as environmental groups question the government’s approval process.

Credlin notes business claim that heavy industry would be driven offshore due to the energy disaster, but more subsidies would be given up to cover up the extent of the disaster. She notes the NSW Government Commissioned multiple reports about the impact of coal-fired power station closures on prices and the impact of the power market on heavy industry closures, but is refusing to release them publicly.

These past three weeks show why many Liberals don’t dare call out the climate scare – but must. In those weeks not one Australian climate scientist has called out a scandalously deceitful report the Albanese government used last month to justify hiking our emissions targets even higher.

Chris Bowen can’t or won’t explain his claim about the scale of Australia’s renewables rollout, as a conservationist accuses him of misrepresenting a group that has mapped it.

Barker MP TONY PASIN has provided the following opinion piece outlining his concerns with a NET ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS TARGET…

Is the world cooling on net zero? If this is so, Australia’s extraordinarily high emissions reduction target of 62 to 70 per cent for 2035 looks like a classic case of economic self-harm.

06 October 2025