As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it. A key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, meat production generates more greenhouse gases than
Read MoreCoal junior Bounty Mining says a $2 million rail capacity upgrade at Cook Colliery in Queensland’s Bowen Basin has reduced operating costs by at least $5 a tonne. Bounty told the ASX on August 14 it had completed an upgrade of the Koorilgah rail loop at Cook Colliery, to allow the operation of full capacity
Read MoreA decision by the NSW Health Department to dump local dairy firm Norco for foreign-owned Dairy Farmers for a major milk supply contract has come under fire from the local farming community. NSW Health recently awarded a supply contract for 15 north coast health facilities to Dairy Farmers, which is owned by Japan’s Kirin Holdings.
Read MoreThe Minerals Council of Australia says the federal budget has again highlighted the importance of the resources sector to the nation’s economy and has called for structural reforms to secure long-term prosperity, including the proposed cut to the company tax rate. The 2018-19 federal budget, handed down by treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday night, forecasts
Read MoreFresh off his company’s acquisition of the Whyalla steelworks last year, British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta will buy the Tahmoor mine off commodities giant Glencore, to supply the steelworks with coking coal. Gupta entered the public eye in Australia when he spent almost $700 million to rescue embattled steel business Arrium from bankruptcy last year, buying
Read MoreWA Premier Mark McGowan has defended a decision to block the expansion of Mineral Resources’ mining operation at Yilgarn, despite the miner’s announcement roughly 400 jobs will be lost. Mineral Resources, an ASX-listed miner, wants to expand its Yilgarn iron ore project via two new project areas, in a move that would add 15 years
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