Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Orica

Stockton residents can finally breathe easier after Orica cuts emissions

Orica makes massive cut to ammonium nitrate pollution.

Newcastle Herald

'Significant merit': glowing endorsement of Hunter hydrogen

New optimism for the Hunter's hydrogen sector following setback.

Newcastle Herald

Hydrogen skills development critical to sector's growth in the Hunter

Micro-credentials available for new hydrogen sector jobs.

Newcastle Herald

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Hunter's hydrogen dream still alive despite setback

Hydrogen projects still alive and well in the Hunter.

Newcastle Herald

Origin Energy walks away from $207m Hunter Hydrogen Hub

Origin Energy has quit the Hunter Hydrogen Hub partnership.

Newcastle Herald

Night of nights: 2024 Hunter Business Award winners revealed

Full list of winners here.

Newcastle Herald

Chemical fire in Melbourne’s west forces evacuations and closes roads

More than 80 firefighters attended an early morning blaze at the Orica factory, a short distance from the scene of last week’s fire at a chemical factory

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

State approves Newcastle green hydrogen plant to feed Orica, road transport

It is among the biggest hydrogen plants approved in Australia.

Newcastle Herald

'Why weren't we told?' Orica's community reference group members want answers

Orica didn't tell community representatives about cobalt exposure

Newcastle Herald

Orica cops $1.2m fine for exposing Kooragang workers to deadly cobalt dust

'Nothing was done for years': District Court Judge David Russell

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle clean tech company 'changing the trajectory' to Net Zero

Construction starts at MCi Carbon's Kooragang Island plant.

Newcastle Herald

'Myrtle' plant to turn industrial emissions into solids

Australia's flagship carbon capture utilisation plant will trap emissions and turn them into solid materials for export to Japan, Europe and the United States.

AAP

Hunter projects in the running for $2 billion hydrogen booster shot

Hunter hydrogen projects on national shortlist for $2billion funding.

Newcastle Herald

State government commits $45m to Hunter Hydrogen Hub

The Hunter Hydrogen Hub is due to start operating in 2026.

Newcastle Herald

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Newcastle Herald

Kooragang project will "build the foundation" of Australia's hydrogen economy

The hub will help Orica to transition away from its use of gas.

Newcastle Herald

'The world is your oyster': Bowen talks up Newcastle's hydrogen future

The nation's first commercial hydrogen plant will cut gas consumption by one of NSW's biggest users.

Newcastle Herald

Albanese government signs off on $70m Newcastle hydrogen plant funding

The plant's capacity is five times bigger than any other hydrogen factory at a similar investment stage in Australia.

Newcastle Herald

Japanese, Korean heavy hitters sign on for port's clean energy precinct

Senior executives of the global firms have flown into Newcastle to join Energy Minister Chris Bowen at a media conference today.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

AAP

How to blast rocks and negativity into prosperity

Chemicals giant Orica expects to be a winner in the latest boom because miners need tech to find new ore and explosives to blast critical minerals out of rock.

Newcastle Herald

Orica fined for gas leak that left a worker in hospital

Orica did not advise the EPA of the incident until two days later.

The Guardian - AU

Explosives equipment missing from massive Snowy Hydro work site

Worksafe NSW launches investigation as site staff told missing detonator and accelerant require other components to activate

Newcastle Herald

Taxpayers stuck in the middle are paying for all of it

I get it, JobSeeker at $350 per week is not much to live on. But as low as welfare payments are, welfare still takes the lion-share of the budget in this country.

The Guardian - AU

Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions

In joint statement companies say they are ‘ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them

Newcastle Herald

Little Avengers assemble: super initiative turning sick kids into superheroes

"When she put it on, it brought a smile to her face because she was a superhero and she could do anything," Maryland mother Amy Campton said.

Newcastle Herald

Orica explains cause of unexpected explosions at Kooragang Island

Residents heard as many as five explosions as loud as the Fort Scratchley guns.

1 2

People

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.