Hydrogen
Fortescue claims paying back $66m for failed hydrogen project ‘overreach’
Lawyers for the mining giant owned by the billionaire Andrew Forrest have filed their defence, arguing they too spent money on the nixed project.
- Julius Dennis
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Trump spurs billion-dollar cuts to Labor’s green hydrogen dream
The federal budget has revealed a major change to government’s goals to revitalise local manufacturing.
- Mike Foley
‘Vanity project’: Queensland sues Twiggy Forrest to recoup $66m grant
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie is taking the mining giant to court to recover taxpayer funds after its Gladstone hydrogen ambitions collapsed.
- Cameron Atfield
Why Australia can’t just drill its way out of a global crisis
Despite the government’s confidence that the nation can avoid a crippling fuel shortage, attention has turned to what options Australia has in its own backyard. Do they stack up?
- Mike Foley
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
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
The PM talked up green steel. But is it even a thing?
Green steel could boost Australia’s export earnings, reduce emissions and hedge against declining coal exports in a cleaner world economy. If a lot of things go right.
- Nick O'Malley
Trucks are big polluters, but can batteries make them cleaner?
In 2024, trucks emitted 22 million tonnes of CO2, and the freight industry is still debating how to decarbonise the long-haul routes.
- Angus Delaney
- Opinion
- Energy
Net zero has been ground zero for energy ambition. What a chance we have now
The Albanese government’s decisive victory creates a historic opportunity to shift thinking from the short to the long term on energy and climate policy.
- Ross Garnaut
- Exclusive
- Perth
Coleman mulls return to Infinite Green Energy under last-ditch rescue plan
West Australian business heavyweight Peter Coleman could return to the helm of embattled hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy under an 11th-hour plan to drag it out of administration.
- Jesinta Burton