The Wimmera-Mallee pipeline project has won an environmental sustainability award.
Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water is one of 67 organisations to win an Australian Business Award, from a field of almost 1,000 entrants from various industries.
Manager director Jeff Rigby says the award acknowledges the company’s commitment to preserving and protecting the environment.
He says this has been achieved [...]

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A transcontinental pipeline could be built from the North-West Cape to link the eastern states with Australia’s largest natural gas field, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
 
Barnett on Monday told a petroleum engineers conference that Australia should embrace natural gas for its energy needs and cut carbon emissions from coal, which accounts for 85 per [...]

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Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex on Friday chose Darwin as the site for a $24 billion gas processing plant that it had initially planned to build in WA’s north to process gas shipped from its Browse Basin Ichthys gas field.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA said the decision not to build the plant [...]

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A plan to drought-proof Goulburn has resulted in the contribution of $20million by the Federal Government.
Due to the change in government, the Goulburn Mulwaree Council was concerned the money pledged by the Coalition would not be honoured by the new Government.
However, Mayor Paul Stephenson says he has received a letter from Water Minister Penny Wong confirming [...]

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Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett has re-confirmed his government’s stance on the Gunns controversial pulp mill, declaring no more public money will be spent on the Tamar Valley development.
“The pulp mill project will now stand or fall entirely on the basis of whether the company (Gunns Ltd), the proponent, and its financiers are able to bring [...]

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Leighton Holdings Ltd, Australia’s largest construction company, has been given the contract to build a pipeline in India for Asia’s biggest oil and gas producer. The contract is worth $US720 million ($A795 million).
The project involves the installation of over 200 kilometres of fixed and flexible pipelines in the Mumbai High field for India’s Oil and [...]

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