Boiling Cold

23/07/2026

A letter from the US miner raised hope that the jarrah forest inland from Perth would escape its strip mining for bauxite, but Alcoa is keeping its options open.

Alcoa raised hopes that the jarrah forest inland from Perth would escape its bauxite strip mining, but the US miner is keeping its options open

23/07/2026

The existing tax, PRRT, fails to capture a fair share of our vast gas exports.

21/07/2026

The majority owner of the Cliff Head platform has called in administrators and other oil and gas producers will likely shoulder the cost.

16/07/2026

The failure of Cliff Head's owners, Pilot Energy and Triangle Energy, to meet payroll does not bode well for their ability to pay the $200 million decommissioning cost.

14/07/2026

Pilot Energy and Triangle Energy - two listed minnows with no revenue - may struggle to afford to decommission the Cliff Head platform off the WA coast.

07/07/2026

INPEX bypassed equipment and ignored procedures agreed with the regulator that together were meant to keep the toxic metal contained.

03/07/2026

Carbon storage technology doesn’t work close to the scale its boosters need it to, and what little of it exists only survives on heavy taxpayer subsidies.
Opinion by Louise Morrris, The Australia Institute

The technology doesn’t work close to the scale its boosters need it to, and what little of it exists only survives on heavy taxpayer subsidies.

02/07/2026

Takeaways from Alcoa's Wall Street chat on the South32 deal:
-Plans to mine WA's jarrah forest for 40 years
-Recognises only a third of the rehabilitation cost that S32 did
-WA exposed to Alcoa's willingness to rehabilitate a vast area of forest & toxic tailings

The US company will have a monopoly over WA bauxite mining and alumina refining, which it plans to operate for 40 years.

01/07/2026

The US company will have a monopoly over WA bauxite mining and alumina refining, which it plans to operate for 40 years.

23/06/2026

Australia's safeguard mechanism is failing to reduce emissions because major polluters are relying on unlimited carbon offsets, according to The Australia Institute.