Rio Tinto has warned it may not be able to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target unless third parties get a wriggle-on with their renewable energy projects.
A new mine submitted to the EPA would be among the first in Fortescue's stable to run on renewable energy from the get-go, should the miner's plans come off.
ANALYSIS: Fortescue has proven itself good at two things: iron ore and putting on a show. The miner is now trying to prove its merits at a third - decarbonising its massive operations
The Pilbara town at the heart of WA's iron ore industry is running out of lots for companies wanting to move in to service new mining and green energy projects.
Aboriginal businessman Frank Mitchell is among the almost 100 Western Australians recognised for their contributions in the Australia Day 2026 honours list.
Alta Copper shareholders have approved Fortescue's move to acquire to remainder of the company, as the WA miner looks to bolster its base metals portfolio in Peru.
Fortescue is doubling down efforts to get its African iron ore project up and running as it ships record volumes of the red rocks out of its Pilbara heartland.The Andrew Forrest-helmed miner and
Fortescue has started building the Pilbara's first wind farm, and the first of its own turbines among 5 gigawatts of green energy plants it has mooted for the region.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest's almost $5 billion donation of Fortescue shares to Minderoo Foundation in 2023 has underpinned WA's mammoth leap in donations, KPMG shows.
Fortescue has moved to acquire the remainder of Peruvian developer Alta Copper it doesn't already own under a deal worth $152 million, as it eyes an expansion of its copper portfolio.
ASX-listed WestStar Industrial's engineering subsidiary SIMPEC has secured a $4.5 million contract for work at Fortescue's Solomon power station in the Pilbara.
A legal fight between Fortescue and three former executives who established a green iron start-up comes to a peaceful end in the Federal Court of Australia.
BHP has taken delivery of its first battery electric trains in Port Hedland, with the miner set to become the first to run green locomotives on its mainline.
Commitments under a $750 million resource sector community investment scheme have reached $100 million three years after its launch and Roger Cook is hopeful of much more.
Fortescue has been granted $45 million from the federal government coffers to enable renewable energy players to test and deploy emerging cost-cutting technologies at its projects.
Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest wants to see his company's proposed renewable energy assets in the Pilbara connected to a common user grid to provide power for the region.
Fortescue has failed in its bid to access more documents from Element Zero, a startup the Andrew Forrest-led company alleged copied its green iron technology.
Fortescue's iron ore shipments swelled to almost 50 million tonnes in a record for the first quarter of a financial year, as its green energy ambitions move left of stage.
The boss of Yara's Australian ammonia operations has criticised a maritime industry call to delay the rollout of new rules incentivising the uptake of green shipping fuels.
The UK-based chief financial officer of Fortescue's electric vehicle arm has left the business after six months, amid a round of redundancies revealed last week.
A report into an engine failure of the FMG Nicola as it departed Port Hedland has been released, with the ATSB investigating why it only learnt of the incident five months later.
Fortescue is buying 400 more zero-emission haul trucks for its Pilbara operations, amid a series of deals with Chinese green technology developers and an acquisition of a Spanish renewables firm.
Private mining services contractor Thiess has secured further mining and asset management work at Fortescue's Iron Bridge magnetite mine in the Pilbara.
