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Leaked documents show Australia's richest company quietly shelved plans to go green
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- Leaked documents expose how BHP shelved its 'urgent' plans to cut WA emissions By Angus Grigg, Alex Mc Donald, Marian Wilkinson and Jade Toomey Four Corners
- Those WA mines account for more than a third of its Australian emissions.
- By the middle of 2023, BHP had made ambitious plans to cut its emissions in the Pilbara with a fleet of electric trucks and trains powered by solar and wind farms.
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Leaked documents expose how BHP shelved its 'urgent' plans to cut WA emissions By Angus Grigg, Alex Mc Donald, Marian Wilkinson and Jade Toomey Four Corners
Link copied Share Share article Mining giant BHP quietly shelved billions of dollars of green projects despite promising the public it was committed to cutting emissions, and telling its board climate action was "urgent" and any delays would "risk" its reputation.
Hundreds of pages of internal BHP documents, exclusively leaked to Four Corners and Guardian Australia, reveal how the company sought to publicly position itself as a climate leader while internally finding reasons to put off action.
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