2024 Federal Budget

Gladstone was the big winner from the 2024 Federal Budget, with funding locked in for the Hydrogen Headstart programme. 
 
The programme will fast track the development of Stanwells Green Hydrogen project in Gladstone that is estimated to create 8,900 jobs;

https://capricornenterprise.com.au/2024/01/local-jobs-and-global-decarbonisation-with-the-stanwell-led-cqh2-hydrogen-project/
 
https://www.stanwell.com/energy-assets/new-energy-initiatives/stanwell-hydrogen-project/stanwell-hydrogen-project/
 
8,900 jobs for a city with a population of 65,000 is mental. Both WA and SA state governments are boasting about what the benefits of what the 4,400 AUSKUS jobs will do for each city, and their cities populations are 2.1M and 1.4M people. 
 
The Stanwell project in only one of many underway in Gladstone. Fortesue already have a Hydrogen facility in operation that will see massive expansion as well as Rio Tinto building the largest solar farm in the southern Hemisphere.