Australia Should Build ‘World’s Biggest Solar Farm’, Mining CEO Says

Given a magic wand, the CEO of mining company Fortescue would build the world’s largest solar and wind farm. Responding to a question at the International Mining and Resources Conference, Dino Otranto said such a development would “spawn an entire new industry where we can finally take our commodities [and] turn them into downstream products” for which the global market has an “insatiable demand.” “Particularly when we’ve got such a small population base with a huge land mass, we need to harness technological advancements,” Otranto said. “We can harness automation [and] robotics, like we’ve pioneered in Australia, and put that to work, build that huge solar and wind farm … with the lowest capacity of labour. But I’m not talking about fewer jobs; I’m talking about more prosperity.”...