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Protesters turned out in force on Saturday outside the Labor state conference in Fremantle.

Labor members vote to ban fracking across WA

Oil and gas companies could soon be barred from fracking in Western Australia entirely, as WA Labor members voted in support of extending an already wide-ranging ban.

  • Holly Thompson

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One of Black Mountain’s proposed wells is 2 kilometres from Mt Hardman Creek in the Kimberley.

‘A dog’s breakfast’: Environment groups flag ‘inconsistencies’ in US company’s Kimberley fracking plans

An American oil and gas company with plans to begin fracking operations in the Kimberley is accused of attempting to pull the wool over the federal government’s eyes.

  • Holly Thompson
Large-scale gas production from the Kimberley would likely need an expensive pipeline to a gas export plant to be viable.

From Black Mountain to a molehill: Kimberley fracking hopeful de-lists

The US-led company wanted to use the controversial fracking drilling technique, was fined for greenwashing and once considered making bitcoin in WA’s Kimberley.

  • Peter Milne