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Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has focused his fossil fuel fury on LNG giant Woodside and its boss Meg O\u2019Neill in an extraordinary radio interview during which he accused her of being trained by liars and of \u201cpeddling poison\u201d.<\/p>\n

Woodside hit back, describing the Fortescue chairman\u2019s comments as \u201cpersonal vitriol\u201d that set a terrible language for public debate and should be condemned.<\/p>\n

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Fortescue chair Andrew Forrest at COP28 in Dubai.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Sean Gallup\/Getty <\/cite><\/p>\n

Speaking on Perth talkback station 6PR\u2019s Mornings <\/em>program, Forrest doubled down on comments made on the sidelines of COP28 published by the ABC, where he said fossil fuel bosses\u2019 heads should be \u201cput on spikes\u201d.<\/p>\n

He then went further, firing broadsides directly at O\u2019Neill and her history prior to Woodside as an ExxonMobil executive.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve raised Meg, let\u2019s talk about Meg. Meg is hard-edge trained by the biggest liar we\u2019ve ever seen around climate change over the last 40 years, and that\u2019s ExxonMobil,\u201d he told presenter Gary Adshead.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been parachuted in here, bringing in all ExxonMobil\u2019s ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m simply saying can we please look at the fact that Meg is driving an agenda to get carbon bombs going as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forrest then turned his attention to WA Premier Roger Cook, rubbishing his recent comments that the state\u2019s emissions would rise from fossil fuel projects like Woodside\u2019s Scarborough to help the rest of the world decarbonise.<\/p>\n

The Fortescue chair said Cook was a good premier, but urged him to stand up to O\u2019Neill and ask her: \u201cWhy are you peddling poison all the time?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger, get up and speak to the troops, mate. Find out if they\u2019re really happy that you\u2019re peddling an energy that\u2019s going to poison the kids,\u201d Forrest said.<\/p>\n

Forrest\u2019s comments come as Fortescue launches a nationwide media campaign attacking the fossil fuel sector.<\/p>\n

The interview was recorded before Woodside and Santos confirmed late Thursday that they were in merger talks to possibly form an Australian fossil fuel giant.<\/p>\n

Forrest conceded his \u201cheads-on-spikes\u201d comment was \u201ccolourful\u201d, but backed the language in the face of rapidly rising global temperatures and populations facing lethal humidity.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Fossil fuel companies] know that. They\u2019re just up here just pretending it\u2019s not happening and so that\u2019s why I made that inflammatory remark,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that you know, you are responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referring to the heads on spikes comment a Woodside spokeswoman said it was extremely disappointing that Forrest used violent imagery in his attack on petroleum industry leaders and \u201chas now resorted to personal vitriol\u201d during his interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch language sets a terrible example for public debate and should be condemned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also has the potential to turn community sentiment against the urgent actions required to achieve the energy transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can only solve the pressing global challenge of climate change through respectful discourse and genuine collaboration and cooperation across industry, governments and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his Friday morning interview Forrest also attacked carbon capture and storage technology, which has been touted as a major solution to help decarbonise Australia\u2019s major gas projects but so far has not worked as promised at scale.<\/p>\n

He said oil and gas companies spent more money \u201ccapturing politicians\u201d rather than carbon.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarbon sequestration is just an old lie waiting for the next idiot to come along. It\u2019s been failing dismally for 50 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a statistician, I\u2019ve got to say, mate, I mean, when it failed 19 out of 20 times you can\u2019t call it a solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t give a dying patient a medicine which is likely to fail, you give them a medicine which is likely to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forrest turned to the level of tax Woodside paid, referring to the ATO\u2019s latest company tax report that put Fortescue third on the list of the biggest taxpayers in the nation and Woodside Energy Group at 58.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy aren\u2019t they anywhere near the top 10? Taxpayers putting money back into the pocket of the public, why is it left to companies like Fortescue the third-largest taxpayer in Australia?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Woodside disputed Forrest\u2019s analysis of the ATO\u2019s report, pointing out that its total company tax bill was split across three entities that paid a total of $558 million in 2021-22 which would make it the 21st largest taxpayer in the country.<\/p>\n

In a tax transparency report last month, Woodside said it had paid $3.7 billion in taxes and royalties to federal and state governments in the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n

Premier Roger Cook said he wanted to \u201cstop the name-calling\u201d around gas and reiterated that countries burning coal for energy would need gas to decarbonise.<\/p>\n

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