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Argyle: Mine cuts 78 jobs
Argyle Diamond Mine has shed more staff. Photo courtesy flickr FancyDiamonds.net A total of 78 employees of its contractor McMahom Holdings will no longer work at the mine. Carbon Energy Business...
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Kimberley Diamonds to buy trading company
Ellendale diamond mine’s new owner intends to buy the Belgian company that sells most of its diamonds. Ellendale Diamond Mine Diamonds.net [read this story] The mine is already returning a profit to...
View ArticlePastoralists struggle to meet new Indonesia cattle demand
Cattle producers say they are not sure if they can meet Indonesia’s new demand for heavier cattle. Pastoralists have found other markets for them since Indonesia restricted its imports to cattle of 350...
View ArticleTanami: Granites cuts 29 jobs
Mine workers have been made redundant at The Granites, just east of the WA border in the Tanami Desert. The company it cut 29 jobs because of falling gold prices. ABC [read this story]
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Halls Creek: New mental health funding
Yura Yangi medical service setting up a new mental health service with federal funding. Jenny Macklin Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin said the government would spend $1.5 million over three...
View ArticleCanning Basin: Fracking probably stopped for 2013
Buru Energy says it has probably stopped hydraulic fracturing the Canning Basin this year. A university researcher says the controversial exploration technique costs about three times as much as it...
View ArticleKununurra: Break-ins hit business hard
Kununurra shopkeepers are facing damage bills in the thousands every time there is a break in. This story features an interview with Farmer Joe’s proprietor Joe Tosun. Kimberley Echo [read this story]
View ArticleBrowse Basin: Oil finds
A smaller exploration company says it has made exciting Browse Basin oil finds. IPB Petroleum, which has three exploration permits, says it may have found a resource of about one billion barrels of...
View ArticleSpeewah: Copper/gold tenements stimulate share price
The company King River reports increased share prices as it prepares to explore for more copper and gold. King River’s tenements are at Speewah Station about 100 kilometres south of Wyndham. It has...
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‘Give cattle to Indonesia’ says Baston
A Broome-based State politician has a plan encourage Indonesia to resume unrestricted cattle imports. Agriculture minister Ken Baston says the Commonwealth should buy 10,000 breeding heifers a year and...
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Daron Keogh on agricultural training at Muresk
Labor candidate Daron Keogh says the Commonwealth has agreed to fund 30 places at Muresk Institute near Northam. Daron Keogh Charles Sturt University will run the courses. You can read Mr Keogh’s...
View ArticleCanning gas fracking ‘too expensive’
A study of the economics of Canning Basin Gas found that it is probably too expensive to frack. The study by the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) says Premier Colin Barnett’s enthusiasm...
View ArticleChris Henggeler on rangeland management
Chris Henggeler has some encouraging advice for pastoralists worried about floods, erosion and their country’s carrying capacity. “By mimicking nature we can use livestock as a tool to make our...
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Alan Eggleston on NW development policy
Senator Alan Eggleston is an enthusiastic supporter of the coalitions North West development policy. Alan Eggleston “Never before have the circumstances been so opportune as to warrant the serious...
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Browse partners allowed to dump James Price Point
The Federal resources minister has decided to allow Browse Basin gas companies to develop a new development plan. Photo courtesy Royal Dutch Shell Gary Gray has removed a condition that had required...
View ArticleMelissa Price on veterans’ pensions
Liberals candidate Melissa Price says her party will index service pensions to inflation if it wins government. “Labor’s had six years to do this, but they didn’t,” Ms Price said. “In fact, they...
View ArticleBroome: Property market slows
Property sales in Broome have slowed down. The ABC says this may be due to Woodside’s rejection of the proposed gas hub at James Price Point. ABC [read this story]
View ArticleMelissa Price on the carbon tax
Liberals candidate Melissa Price says she welcomes her party’s policy to scrap the carbon tax. “If Labor is re-elected, the carbon tax will continue to be a tax on electricity bills which will hurt...
View ArticleKilto Station ‘not responsible’ for workers’ death
A young English worker died at Kilto station 12 months ago. He fell into a feed bin. WorkSafe has decided the station is not liable for his death. ABC [read this story]
View ArticleWyndham: Fruit fly found
Mediterraean fruit fly has been found in Wyndham. This is a serious concern as the agricultural pest is not usually found north of Carnarvon. If it gets into Ord Valley fruit crops, growers will have...
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