29 . 07 . 2025
Turbine construction slump: Labor’s energy target all miss and wind
Construction of new wind farms for the national electricity grid, which are crucial to Anthony Albanese’s clean-energy ambitions, came to a halt in the first half of this year, as the godfather of Labor’s climate policies warns the government will miss its 82 per cent renewables target by “a big margin”.
29 . 07 . 2025
Woodside takes Bass Strait control
Woodside will take operating control of Australia’s first major offshore oil and gas development in the Bass Strait from ExxonMobil, in a 50-year first.
28 . 07 . 2025
Farmers’ fury over Victorian government’s power grab
The Allan government will debate giving VicGrid the power to access private farmland to build transmission towers in regional Victoria. Farmers are furious.
28 . 07 . 2025
Australian oil & gas industry delivers record $22 billion in taxes and royalties to government revenues in 2024-25
The Australian oil and gas industry is expected to pay a record $21.9 billion in taxes and royalties to federal, state and territory governments in 2024-25, reaffirming the industry’s substantial and ongoing contribution to the Australian economy.
27 . 07 . 2025
‘Cowards’: Pauline Hanson’s push to flush out Coalition over Net Zero
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will move an urgency motion calling for an end to net zero, declaring that any Coalition Senator who abstains from the vote should be labelled a “coward”.
26 . 07 . 2025
WA Liberal Party State Council supports call to abandon net zero, reduce Welcome to Country ceremonies
The WA Liberal Party has supported a motion to abandon a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, putting added pressure on Australian Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to drop the policy for the federal party.
26 . 07 . 2025
BP Plans to Exit $36 Billion Australian Green Hydrogen Hub
After years of stock under performance and departure of the plan’s architect, BP has refined its strategy to focus more squarely on profits than green goals.
24 . 07 . 2025
BP ditches $54b Pilbara hydrogen project
BP has abandoned plans to invest in a huge green hydrogen project in Western Australia, adding to the companies walking away from the clean fuel that was once regarded as a big export opportunity for the country.
24 . 07 . 2025
Copenhagen Energy quietly withdraws from Mid West wind farm project
A proposed offshore wind farm off the Mid West coast has been scrapped, as European developer Copenhagen Energy quietly exits the Australian renewables market.
23 . 07 . 2025
‘Climate virtue-signalling’: Labor continues destroying farm land in ‘mad’ renewable push
Sky News host Peta Credlin discusses Labor’s push to build 90 wind turbines the size of Sydney’s Barangaroo Towers in a New South Wales town.
Hancock Energy is a Hancock Prospecting company.
