Energy

West Perth-based clean energy developer Carnegie Corporation Ltd has completed its $14.8 million capital raising, through a private placement and share purchase plan, the company has announced.

Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd has won the 2007 MINEX Award, the mining industry's highest accolade for safety and health practices.

The State Government will call for tenders to supply 26 gigawatt hours - five per cent of the energy it needs - from a renewable source, Energy Minister Francis Logan has announced.

Perth-based commercial property investor Aspen Group Ltd's Aspen Parks Property Fund has acquired eight caravan parks in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales for a combined $54.6 million, the company has announced.

An $11 million collaboration between universities and the CSIRO to unlock stranded offshore oil and gas reserves through improved subsea pipeline design will be launched today at the University of Western Australia.

The housing shortage in regional Western Australia has become a bigger issue than skill shortages for companies like BHP Billiton, according to one of the mining giant’s senior executives.

The term ‘new economy’ was a popular buzz phrase during the dot com boom of the late 1990s.

Followers of the nickel sector are expecting further takeover activity after Swiss group Xstrata stunned the market with a $3.1 billion bid for Perth-based Jubilee Mines NL.

Xstrata meets with WA government to discuss its $3.1b Jubilee takeover; Harold Clough quits Clough board after family sell down; Coventry rose by 3pcts yesterday; WA Department of Agriculture quits involvement in wheat breeding; Myer staff wins pay rise.