Category: Environment

‘Hold onto your hats’: wild willy-willy caught on camera in the Pilbara
Most people who have driven through the Pilbara have looked out the window and seen a willy-willy. But this takes it to another level!
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Coal mine returned to farming land in WA’s South West
Griffin Coal has been rehabilitating mine sites at Collie for the best part of 40 years – but its latest efforts at the Ewington 1 mine are taking that work to another level. Griffin, which first started operating in Collie during the 1920s, has been concentrating recent rehabilitation work on transforming areas of open cut mining into workable and highly productive […]
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Renewable energy bears fruit at WA’s Granny Smith mine
The project is expected to reduce the mine's fuel consumption by more than 10 per cent.
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World-first possum finishing school prepares endangered creatures for life back in the wild
The school aims to prepare orphaned or abandoned young Western Ringtail Possums for life back in the bush.
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Throwing the carbon sink at greenhouse gas emissions?
BHP is investigating whether the use of technology at its Mount Keith tailings dam could speed up a natural process that already offsets the equivalent of the yearly emissions from some 15,000 cars.
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Alcoa steps up to help our iconic and threatened Black-Cockatoos
Bauxite miner and alumina producer Alcoa is taking a multifaceted approach to helping Western Australia’s iconic Black-Cockatoos.
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Bold new drone and satellite plan to put out dangerous fires ‘in an hour’
New project aims to identify and extinguish the types of fires that ravaged the Eastern States earlier this year before they become deadly.
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Meet the battery-powered 4WD that could change the Australian mining scene
As a mining engineer, Steve Durkin always wanted to know why things were done the way they were done. His latest innovation could be about to significantly change staus quo.
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BHP adding LNG-fuelled carriers to transport WA iron ore
The iron ore miner says the new fleet could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30 per cent per voyage.
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First mining companies join Australian carbon neutral ranks
A small Goldfields drilling company run by twin brothers is among two Australian mining businesses to be certified as carbon neutral.
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