Angela Macdonald-Smith

Santos has asked a court to force four environmental groups to hand over communications with the Environmental Defenders Office as it seeks to uncover who bankrolled a failed campaign to stop its massive Barossa gas project.

The influential proxy advisor had recommended a vote against the re-election of the company’s chair, Richard Goyder. Its rival, ISS, is backing the businessman.

The troubled West Australian development was to open last year. It is now not expected to begin production until 2025, the Stokes-backed company said.

The sustainability arm of Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending against the re-election of the company’s chairman – contradicting its main analyst.

The decision to build Papua New Guinea’s second LNG project has been pushed back again after bids from contractors made it uneconomic.

The proxy adviser appears to have based its views on two activist groups holding up to 0.005 per cent of the stock and ignored Woodside’s extensive talks on climate, it said.

Jeff Dimery also called for an honest debate about the costs of the energy transition and said consumers would inevitably have to pay more.

Whether new oil and gas projects can align with the Paris Agreement is central to the oil and gas producer’s stoush with activists and some proxy advisers.

The details of the Capacity Investment Scheme are still being debated just weeks before the first auction for six gigawatts of wind and solar capacity.

Porsche-backed HIF Global wants to build a plant in Tasmania. Others are eyeing Townsville. But they need the government to push customers their way.