Engineers Australia backs calls for Chief Engineer
03 July, 2013Engineers Australia has lent its support to a proposal to appoint a Chief Engineer to guide Australia’s infrastructure investment priorities.
Calls for more women in mining, construction, utilities
22 May, 2013The WGEA has welcomed a new toolkit of strategies to increase gender diversity in male-dominated industries. The toolkit aims to help the mining, construction and utilities industries to attract and retain female talent.
EPA investigates dioxin emissions breach
02 May, 2013Port Kembla metal manufacturer MM has come under scrutiny from the NSW Environment Protection Authority for possibly breaching its licence conditions for dioxin emissions.
EPA investigates another Orica incident
19 March, 2013Orica says a relief valve in its ammonia storage plant lifted prematurely as a result of a mechanical malfunction - but this occurred well before the alarm’s trigger point in this section of the plant.
Ammonia leak reported at Orica plant
13 March, 2013An ammonia gas leak occurred at Orica’s Kooragang Island site in Newcastle on 11 March, with an unconfirmed quantity of ammonia from a 60 m high vent stack.
National registration for engineers is needed, says Engineers Australia
25 October, 2012Engineers Australia has urged the federal government to bring forward its plans to create a national system of registration for engineering professionals.
Japan to phase out nuclear energy over three decades
18 September, 2012Japan has announced that it plans to phase out nuclear power over three decades, cutting its use of nuclear energy to zero by 2040.
V-Cone obtains GOST-R certification
06 August, 2012McCrometer has announced that its advanced differential pressure V-Cone flow meter has obtained GOST-R certification, meeting Russian national technical standards.
EPA serves Amcor with a notice following Yarra River oil leak
18 July, 2012Amcor has been served an EPA notice following an incident of industrial waste discharge into the Yarra River from its Alphington paper-manufacturing plant.
Orica guilty of pollution breaches
02 July, 2012Orica has pleaded guilty to breaching its environment protection licence in four incidents in 2011.
Coal company fined for water pollution twice in three weeks
23 April, 2012In the Land and Environment Court on Thursday, Moolarben Coal Operations was fined $112,500 for polluting waters near Mudgee. This is the second fine of this size that the company has received in three weeks.
National OHS harmonisation: will it arrive?
17 April, 2012The harmonisation deadline set by COAG in 2008 was 1 January 2012, but that deadline has well and truly passed with us seemingly no closer to the desired end state.
AGL Energy to build gas-fired power plant in Victoria
11 April, 2012The Victorian Government has approved a $600 million, 920 MW power station to be built in Tarrone, in Victoria's southwest.
GE believes Australian carbon tax 'courageous and gutsy'
26 March, 2012John Rice, vice chairman of the world’s largest industrial conglomerate, thinks that the Australian Government is “gutsy” to follow through on its pledge to introduce a carbon tax.
SA leads the states in wind energy
20 March, 2012SA is now Australia’s largest producer of wind energy, with more than half the nation’s installed capacity last year.
