The Whitsunday Solar Farm is expected to create 200 jobs and will provide renewable energy to the Whitsundays region. The Queensland Government has been briefed by the owner and proponent of the...
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Metallica Minerals’ Urquhart bauxite project in north Queensland does not require an Environmental Impact Statement, the Queensland Department of Heritage and Protection has confirmed. The...
At least 460 workers at Ichthys LNG Project in Darwin have been axed, construction contractor JKC has confirmed. JKC confirmed workers would be cut at the Ichthys Project Onshore LNG...
Workers on the Sunshine Coast’s largest construction project are fearful of losing their jobs if they speak out about safety issues, according to the Electrical Trades Unions. The worker concerns...
The $13.5 million Wivenhoe Power Station overhaul has finished four days ahead of schedule. The 85-day major overhaul at CS Energy’s pumped storage hydroelectric station, near Fernvale in south...
Rescue teams dug with their hands to reach the body of a 62-year-old opal miner who became trapped underneath rubble after a collapse. Sidney Cuddy was killed when a trench in the shallow-cut mine...
Putting a price on carbon would benefit the Australian gas industry, at least in the short term. It is therefore in the interests of gas producers to lobby for the emissions trading scheme proposed...
A major refurbishment of the Somerset Hydro-Electric Plant will increase Seqwater’s capacity to produce renewable energy for the state’s electricity grid. Energy and Water Supply Minister Mark Bailey...
Workers in the mining industry are almost three times as likely to experience financial stress in 2016 compared to 2014, according to new research. Twenty-six per cent of people working in the mining...
Work fatality rates are on the rise in Western Australia, according to the latest Safe Work Australia data. The data, which is based on work fatality rates per 100,000 workers over thirteen years to...
Mining companies are feeling the pressure to manage the impacts of drugs and alcohol in the workplace as recreational drug use increases, according to national survey results released this week. The...
Last year, 195 workers died from injuries received at work, according to Safe Work Australia’s latest Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatalities report. The report highlights a positive downward...
