September 25, 2026 — 4:30pm

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The federal government has given environmental approval to two major renewables projects in Queensland, despite the state government scrapping similar projects, with the federal environment minister warning the state it might be harder than it thinks to use fossil fuels to power data centres.

The Bungaban wind farm and solar farm, both on the Western Downs, were approved by minister Murray Watt on Friday, with power from the wind farm to be funnelled into Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelter in Gladstone.

The projects…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU