After a rare moment of truth, it's immediately back to business as usual for the McGowan Government on coal, as climate and energy policy are once again sacrificed on the altar of political expediency in Western Australia’s most marginal electorate.

An epic two-year court case, focused on the fate of obscure underground creatures in remote Western Australia, has turned our comfortable notion of environmental protection on its head, proving that Australia’s environment laws are powerless to prevent extinction.

Conservation groups are calling for state and national environment laws to be strengthened, following today’s confirmation that the Yeelirrie uranium mine approval was valid, despite advice that the project would lead to the extinction of several unique species and was contrary to key principles of environmental law.

A new CSIRO report is being wrongly used to support industry claims that gas production helps the climate, despite the report failing to find any evidence to support the claims, according to conservation groups.

The WA Government must have been embarrassed about its fracking implementation plan, which was slipped quietly onto a government website late on Friday evening to ensure it avoided any public attention.

With communities around the state from the Kimberley to the South West active on the issue, and polling showing that the overwhelming majority of Western Australians strongly oppose fracking, the McGowan Government has good reason to feel more than a little awkward about a plan that reflects its close connection to the gas industry over its intentions to protect communities, climate, and groundwater from its pollution.

The operator of the Gorgon liquified natural gas (LNG) project, Chevron, has deliberately mismanaged the carbon sequestration program it promised in order to get approval for the controversial LNG development, according to the Conservation Council of WA.

The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is inviting submissions on its draft Greenhouse Gas Assessment Guidelines to help determine the how new projects should be assessed, and what controls and limits should be placed on carbon emissions from polluting industries.

A new report from Global Energy Monitor shows that Western Australia’s rapidly expanding liquified natural gas (LNG) export industry is a leading contributor to climate change, and expanding LNG capacity globally is on a collision course with the Paris Agreement.

We have just returned from an awesome 4 day trip to Kalgoorlie and the area of the proposed Mulga Rock uranium project.  It was a full on four days to connect and support the people at the frontline fighting to stop the proposed uranium mine at Mulga Rock. 

Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) Director Piers Verstegen said that there is much to lament after the election, but the words in the statement of reasons for the approval of the Yeelirrie uranium mine in WA’s mid west drives home just how much ground we lost on advancing the new environmental laws we so desperately need.