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  • Japan-Australia hydrogen energy supply join venture awarded $1.62 billion

    15 March 2023

    An Australian joint venture between Japanese organisations J-Power and Sumitomo Corporation has been selected as the preferred hydrogen provider to Japan Suiso Energy (JSE). The clean hydrogen gas will be produced from brown coal in Gippsland, Victoria and JSE will liquify the hydrogen for export to Japan....

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  • Australian utility fined $1.5 million for “preventable” death of worker

    14 February 2023

    Energy retailer and generator EnergyAustralia has been fined AUD$1.5 million (£860,000) after an employee at the Yallourn power station in Latrobe Valley, Victoria suffered fatal injuries from an electrical explosion in November 2018....

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  • Safety issue on world’s first liquid hydrogen carrier fixed

    07 February 2023

    The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) has said that an electrical component failure on the world’s first liquid hydrogen (LH2) carrier which caused a brief flame discharge, has now been fixed. The Suiso Frontier was built as a prototype ship to assess the technical aspects of transporting LH2 by sea....

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  • Shell to go ahead with £1.4 billion gas field development off Australia

    30 May 2022

    Shell Australia announced on May 30 that it has taken a final investment decision to approve the development of the Crux natural gas field, off the coast of Western Australia. The project will be developed with Shell’s joint venture partner SGH Energy and will reportedly cost around $2.5 billion (£1.4bn)....

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  • No charges to be laid in relation to 2020 Australian mine explosion

    22 February 2022

    Queensland’s Office of the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor (OWHSP) announced on February 22 that no charges would be laid in relation to the May 2020 explosion at Anglo American’s Grosvenor coal mine in Moranbah which critically injured five people. The decision has drawn criticism from the industry, including the Mining and Energy Union which said workers had been left angry....

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£8.7bn Australian LNG project given final approval 23 November 2021

A major A$16.2bn (£8.7bn) gas project has been given final approval which will see the development of an oil and gas field off Australia’s northwest coast. Approval for the Scarborough project, a joint venture between energy giant Woodside and BHP, was given on November 22 before the two companies announced a merger of BHP’s oil and gas portfolio with Woodside....

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New Zealand police discover bodies 11 years after Pike River mine disaster 17 November 2021

On November 17, New Zealand police announced that at least two bodies had been found deep inside the Pike River Mine, 11 years after a series of methane explosions killed 29 men there. No bodies have ever been recovered. Using boreholes and specialist cameras, police said that images had been captured of two bodies, plus a possible third....

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Australian inquiry into 2020 mine explosion finds miners faced “unacceptable level of risk” 15 June 2021

An inquiry into the May 2020 explosion at Anglo American’s Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland, Australia has found that production continued despite knowledge that the gas management systems were unable to cope with the rate of production. The Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry report found that methane gas levels in the mine exceeded regulated levels 27 times in the lead up to the explosion which seriously injured five people....

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Australian miners left “fuming” as mining giant restarts coal mine following 2020 explosion 23 April 2021

Workers at mining giant Anglo American’s Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland, Australia have been left “fuming” as a result of the company’s decision to restart operations following an explosion in May 2020 which seriously injured five people. According to Reuters news agency, a union official has said that Anglo American has not kept workers informed about the plans to restart the mine, a claim disputed by the company....

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Meat processing company fined £176,000 for ammonia leak 26 February 2021

A meat processing company in New Zealand has been fined $337,500 (£176,000) after an ammonia leak in February. The leak at the Silver Fern Farms plant in Hawera on the southwest coast of New Zealand’s North Island contaminated a local stream, killing scores of fish and eels....

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