Flailing hydrogen project a cautionary tale for Australia’s renewable dogmatists

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Flailing hydrogen project a cautionary tale for Australia’s renewable dogmatists
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In October 2022, Chris Bowen lobbed a lazy $13.7 million at a company that planned to build a giant hydrogen production plant in Brisbane.

Twiggy Forrest’s cautionary tale: Flailing green hydrogen project rips a hole in Labor's plan to turn Australia into a clean energy superpower

The electrolyser will be the largest built to date, feeding renewable hydrogen directly into the first fully decarbonised ammonia facility.Andrew Forrest's company, Fortescue Futures, has yet to make the numbers stack up. “Twiggy” Forrest told the National Press Club in February that the Coalition’s push for nuclear energy was “bulldust” and a “new lie”.Yet Forrest’s most promising investment in green hydrogen will be fuelled in part at least by nuclear. Go figure.

Yet the story of Gibson Island rips a great big hole in the government’s narrative of transforming Australia into a clean energy superpower.

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