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Santos, one of the largest Australian oil and gas companies, said the EDO’s injunctions against its Barossa project near Darwin cost it more than $1 million a day.

Taxpayers ‘deserve better’: Labor puts top climate lawyers on notice

The government is warning the Environmental Defenders Office it risks losing its funding after a series of high-profile court cases against a major gas producer.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano

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Demersal fish like snapper are a prized catch for recreational anglers.

Major WA fishing ban primed for probe after Greens support

A petition calling for an inquiry that gathered 27,654 signatures was tabled in WA parliament on Thursday

  • Hamish Hastie
Fire ants were first recorded at the Port of Brisbane in 2001.

Fire ant eradication attempts may be helping the invaders, study finds

Mass pesticides could be killing the ants’ predators and wasting millions of dollars, according to a new study on the contentious national program.

  • Julius Dennis
Photo from Buru Energy’s fracking wells in the Kimberley.

‘Absurd’: Toxic chemical risks in Kimberley fracking plan ‘downplayed’, environmentalists say

The Kimberley’s sparse population was cited as a reason the risk to human health from a fracking project was deemed low – but what about pastoralists and traditional owners who use groundwater in the area?

  • Holly Thompson
The Alcoa protest at WA Parliament on Tuesday.

Greens MP refers Alcoa to watchdog over more alleged WA tree clearing breaches

The Greens MP trespassed in Alcoa’s mining area to investigate another suspected clearing breach late last year.

  • Hamish Hastie
Conservation groups have been calling for cat containment laws for more than a decade.

‘Long time coming’: The days of free-roaming cats could be numbered in WA

Amendments to the state’s Cat Act will give local governments the legal right to introduce and manage their own cat containment laws.

  • Hamish Hastie
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WA Premier Roger Cook, Alcoa chief executive Roy Harvey, mining Perth jarrah forests. Pictures: Supplied

WA premier ‘disappointed’ in Alcoa after forest-clearing fine but backs exemption to keep mining

The $55 million fine is an unprecedented amount and will see the US-based miner avoid prosecution.

  • Hamish Hastie
Bauxite extraction at the Huntly mine, the largest of Alcoa’s two mines in Western Australia.

Alcoa fined $55 million for clearing northern jarrah forest without approvals

Despite maintaining it had met its federal environmental obligations, the miner agreed to pay the fine as part of an enforceable undertaking reached with the federal government on Wednesday.

  • Hamish Hastie and Aaron Bunch
Protesters have turned out in force over the course of the discussions.

8000 appeals: Kimberley fracking plan becomes most contested project in WA history

Plans by Black Mountain Energy received more than 11 times the number of appeals as Woodside’s Northwest Shelf project, making it the most contested project in WA’s history.

  • Holly Thompson
The Hills Wildlife Sanctuary’s Ben Dessen, with a squirrel glider. Dessen says a more consistent funding arrangement is needed for wildlife rescues.

NSW launched a review of wildlife care in 2024. Now the results are in

A $9 million package aims to fix systemic problems including volunteer burnout and poor organisational culture in the struggling sector.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons