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Angus Taylor, Matt Canavan, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce.

‘Climate denial on steroids’: How the global anti-climate movement is fracturing right-wing politics at home

Populists are waging a war against climate action around the world, but in Australia the fiercest battle is among the right-wing parties over policy “purity”.

  • Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley

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TMK Energy’s drilling operation at its Lucky Fox LF-07 pilot well at the company’s Mongolian Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project.

TMK Energy strikes thick coal in latest Mongolia gas pilot well

TMK Energy’s LF-07 well has hit 54m of coal at its Gurvantes XXXV CSG project in Mongolia, boosting gas output, within a week of its new J-Energy alliance.

  • Doug Bright
TMK Energy and J-Energy executives at an introductory meeting in Beijing in June.

TMK allies with Beijing-based J-Energy to speed up Mongolian gas play

TMK Energy has allied with Beijing-based J-Energy to advance its Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project, leveraging China’s expertise and proximity for efficient development.

  • Doug Bright
TMK Energy has finalised its drilling contract with Major Drilling, whose TXD200 drill rig is being mobilised to the company’s Gurvantes XXXV project site in Mongolia.

TMK drills final Mongolian pilot gas hole amid partnership talks

TMK Energy is fielding strong interest from potential partners in its Mongolian coal seam gas project, as it finalises a contract for an additional pilot production well.

  • Doug Bright
TMK Energy’s Lucky Fox-01 well flaring gas. The well is part of TMK’s Pilot Well project in rugged Mongolia.

Turbocharged TMK Mongolian gas production hits record levels

TMK Energy has turbocharged its record run with a 14 per cent jump in gas production at the company’s Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project in Southern Mongolia.

  • Craig Nolan

‘Do you vacuum your lampshades?’ It was an idyllic town. Now it’s cursed by coal dust

A former local returns to the small NSW town of Muswellbrook, where he finds an expanded open-cut mining sector, a hollowed-out community and dust – everywhere.

  • Ryan Butta
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is expected to name seven possible sites for nuclear power plants in the coming weeks.

Dutton to ditch Paris Agreement: analysis reveals nuclear impact on emissions

Peter Dutton’s energy policy will blow Australia’s greenhouse gas budget and reignite Australia’s climate wars.

  • Mike Foley
Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and COP28 President.

COP28 boss says he was misinterpreted, fossil fuel phase out is ‘inevitable’

The COP28 president has addressed remarks he made suggesting there was no science to support the need to phase out fossil fuels to cap global warming.

  • Lucy Cormack
Santos ceo Kevin Gallagher...

Santos blames government, activists and regulators for gas woes

The LNG giant’s boss Kevin Gallagher has said a decade of climate wars and energy policy failure have left Australia without affordable and reliable energy.

  • Peter Milne
The Premier Coal mine in Collie.

Why a bulldozer crash in Collie left WA without its biggest power station

WorkSafe Commissioner Darren Kavanagh confirmed the incident occurred at Premier Coal’s mining operations near Collie August 16 this year.

  • Hamish Hastie