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Andrew Forrest and Fortescue’s Gladstone hydrogen project.

‘Dud project’: How Andrew Forrest’s green dreams cost taxpayers $80m

It vowed it would create a new export industry for Australia, but documents reveal Fortescue’s failed green hydrogen factory cost taxpayers millions while the company spruiked its “successes” overseas.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Nick Toscano

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Green hydrogen and green steel: Australia’s richest man Andrew Forrest wants to net-zero proof his iron ore business.

An Australian powerhouse tried to kill a start-up. It failed

A dirty David and Goliath fight over clean steel is over, with billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue abandoning a fight that could have been avoided.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Fortescue’s Green Pioneer arrived in New York on Friday, where it will act as a billboard for “real zero” during Climate Week.

‘Gobsmackingly illogical’: Twiggy lashes Trump on climate as Aussies hit New York

As Anthony Albanese and other high-profile Australians arrive for the United Nations summit, the mining billionaire lashed out at the US president over his administration’s opposition to a “carbon tax” for the shipping industry.

  • Michael Koziol
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie in state parliament.

Queensland asks Fortescue to return money for dumped hydrogen project

The deputy premier criticised the former Labor government for pursuing the company’s electrolyser manufacturing facility in Gladstone as a “vanity project”.

  • Matt Dennien
Three companies are actively trying to achieve “real zero” - Fortescue Mining, IKEA and Lendlease. 

Forget net zero. We need ‘real zero’ – and these companies prove it’s profitable

Three huge global companies – IKEA, Lendlease and Fortescue Mining – are heading towards real zero. If they can do it, so can everyone.

  • Claire Snyder
Businessman Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest during a state dinner in Washington in September.

Trump kills Twiggy Forrest’s US green hydrogen dream

The Australian billionaire has terminated a major hydrogen project in the US as the president guts clean energy funding and unwinds efforts to fight climate change.

  • Nick Toscano
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Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Why Twiggy’s happy to cut the oranges for Team Australia

Andrew Forrest, the mining tycoon turned climate saviour, was in trademark form as he – wearing a Ukraine flag pin on his jacket – praised the PM, issued AI warnings and trumpeted green steel.

  • Paul Sakkal

Dark clouds gather over Australia’s red earth riches

China’s voracious appetite for iron ore has kept the Australian economy prosperous for decades. But demand is starting to cool.

  • Simon Johanson and Nick Toscano
The steel sector generates more than 8 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The Pilbara is at risk of becoming a ‘wasteland’. Could green iron help?

As Australia’s iron giants face difficulties maintaining the quality of their supplies, there are fears demand could shrink as Chinese steel mills go green.

  • Simon Johanson and Nick Toscano
Andrew Forrest’s biggest bet has been on developing electrolysers that can break down water into green hydrogen or reduce iron ore to “green iron” suitable for steel making.

‘It’s a con’: Billionaire ‘Twiggy’ Forrest unloads on net zero

Despite doubts about the economics of green hydrogen and Donald Trump’s aversion to clean energy, Andrew Forrest isn’t ready to back down on his dream.

  • Matt Oliver