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

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

The BHP files: World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal

Pilbara. Photograph: Fairfax Media/Getty Images BHP says it is still focused on its emissions reductions goals and has reduced emissions by 36% on 2020 levels, [pointing to analysis](https://mandalapartners.com/reports/how-australias-largest-industrial-companies-are-tracking-on-emissions) suggesting

BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

Pilbara operations, despite pledging to electrify the fleet, and has war-gamed options to significantly delay major investments needed to hit net zero by 2050 emissions goal. Using a cache of documents dubbed the BHP