The West Australian government is set to push through changes to land tenure laws so Andrew Forrest and others can turn hundreds of thousands of hectares covered by cattle stations into mega solar and wind farms to support green hydrogen production.

The changes will affect pastoral leases that are home to cattle stations such as Dr Forrest’s beloved Minderoo, where land use is effectively limited to the grazing of livestock, and clear the way for renewables projects more than half the size of Sydney.