$1billion sandalwood exports predicted
One of Australia’s two big sandalwood companies predicts $1billion worth of export earnings this coming decade. Tropical Forestry Services has lots of irrigated Ord River land planted with the valuable...
View ArticleOrd agriculture ‘should expand’ says Governor-General
Australia’s Governor-General says expanding the Ord River Irrigation Scheme should be a national priority. Sir Peter Cosgrove made the comments during his tour of Katherine, Kununurra and Wyndham. The...
View ArticleBuru produces gas newsletter
Buru Energy invites you to download a newsletter. “As part of Buru Energy’s engagement with the Kimberley community, we have created a brief newsletter based on our current and proposed activities,”...
View ArticleNoonkanbah allows fracking
Buru Energy and Noonkanbah’s Aboriginal community have reached an agreement to allow hydraulic fracturing on the station. “In providing this support, the Noonkanbah Community has demanded that utmost...
View ArticleBrowse Basin: Ichthys ‘half way’ to completion
Inpex says construction work on its Ichthys gas project is now half complete. The company intends to extract gas from the Browse Basin lease, piping it along the sea bed to its own processing facility...
View ArticleBrowse Basin: Submersible to drill for oil
Cal Energy and IBP Petroleum intend to drill for oil with a submersible rig. The Pryderi-1 oil exploration well is located in Block WA-424-P, an IBP lease located about 200km east of Prince Regent...
View ArticleBuru Energy: Managing Director steps down
Keiran Wulff has stood down as Managing Director for Buru Energy and resigned as a company director. Buru founder Eric Streitberg will take his place. You can read a Buru media release here:...
View ArticleRinehart buying stations
Gina Reinhardt’s company Hancock Prospecting is buying half shares in Liveringa and Nerrima stations. The deal is part of a joint venture with the Laitt family, which owns the Milne AgriGroup. They...
View ArticleGoolari seeks grant for environment show
Goolari Media is seeking a grant to podcast the weekly Sound Environment show. The Broome radio station is asking you to vote for the project in a community grants award “Peoples’ Choice” category.
View ArticleMelissa Price on childcare benefit increase
Local member Melissa Price says a lower income family, with one child in full‐time care, could receive up to $264 extra this year. You can read her statement here: Price announces Child Care Benefit...
View ArticleMelissa Price on the aged care costs tool
Local member Melissa Price invites her constituents to use a new online tool to calculate aged care costs. You can read her statement here: Price Promotes Aged Care in Durack 14 July 2014 People...
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Kununurra: Sugar mill changes hands
The old sugar mill changed hands on Tuesday 15 July. The old Ord sugar mill The Chinese Company that plans to develop the new Ord agricultural land plans to use it to process sweet sorghum. This is to...
View ArticleMelissa Price on carbon tax repeal
Australia’s parliament today repealed the carbon tax. Local member Melissa Price says this is “great news” for local families and small businesses. You can read her statement here: “Today’s vote by...
View ArticleYawuru opposed to fracking
The Yawuru native title group has voted not to support hydraulic fracturing for gas. Buru Energy already holds exploration permits to frack two wells at Yulleroo, on Roebuck Plains east of Broome. The...
View ArticleMelissa Price on ‘Restart’
Local member Melissa Price says grants of up to $10,000 are available to businesses who employ older workers. They must have been registered unemployed for at least six months. You can read her...
View ArticlePaspaley charged for diver’s death
Paspaley Pearling Company has been charged over the 2012 death of one of its employees. Pearl Diver Jarrod Hampton, 22, died while working off the Kimberley coast. The West Australian [read this story]
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Halls Creek: Shire to present Tanami track upgrade business case
Halls Creek shire is about to present its case to the body that advises governments on infrastructure developments. The Tanami Track in the wet season The shire has been lobbying for many years to have...
View ArticleJessica McLean on the Northern Australia plan
Jessica McLean says the federal government should consult Indigenous land owners about its Northern Australia plan. She says the Ord River Indigenous land use agreement is a good example. Stock Journal...
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Robin Chapple on abandoned uranium project
Areva Resources has abandoned its North Canning uranium project near Derby. The West Australian [read this story] Robin Chapple MLC Robin Chapple MLC is asking whether it received Royalties for Regions...
View ArticleHalls Creek: EPA approves rare earth mine
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a rare earths mine at Browns Range, 160 kilometres southeast of Halls Creek. WAToday [read this story]
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