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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Christopher Knaus and Adam Morton

BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

A truck carrying iron ore, with one side billowing black smoke
BHP is Australia’s biggest user of diesel and its fleet of Pilbara trucks are its biggest single source of diesel emissions. Composite: Guardian

BHP has continued to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying diesel trucks in the Pilbara despite internal documents suggesting it would increase emissions and be “misaligned” with its decarbonisation goals.

The mining giant is Australia’s biggest consumer of diesel and trucks are its biggest single source of diesel emissions. Replacing the fleet with battery-electric trucks is considered a critical step in the multinational’s efforts to decarbonise.

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