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It’s more than a little ironic that Mt Isa, a town at the centre of what is supposed to be the heartland for the minerals needed for a green energy transition, is about to go through a trauma of a deeply fractured economy when Glencore shuts its copper mines.
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Mount Isa MP Robbie Katter is livid and does not buy the Glencore story that the city’s famous copper mines were no longer viable.
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The State Government will take over the CopperString transmission project at a $5 billion cost as it seeks to unlock the vast potential wealth of north west minerals province and renewable energy in areas like Hughenden.
Mining giant Glencore has approved the sale and purchase of its Ernest Henry copper-gold mine in north west Queensland for $1 billion to Evolution Mining.
The coal industry claims to have found the answer to carbon capture and storage and has pledged $100 million for a carbon hub in the Surat Basin.
Investing used to only be about money. Now investors have to weigh up their impact on the world as ESG becomes a potent weapon on the markets, as John McCarthy reports
The Queensland Resources Council is refusing to back down to some of its mining giant partners and instead says its political campaign targetting the Greens was “long overdue”.
