The Mirning Traditional Owners’ native title rights were recognised by the Federal Court in 2017.
WA Mirning People Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (WAMPAC) was established by the Mirning People in 2019 to manage Native Title rights and interests.
The entity
Not-for-profit First Nations-owned company Mirning Green Energy Limited was established in 2021 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of WA Mirning People Aboriginal Corporation.
It was created to manage a 10% shareholding in the Western Green Energy Hub (WGEH), and to explore opportunities that may emerge from the project, ensuring long-term benefits for the Mirning People if the proposal goes ahead.
The shareholder agreement
Mirning Green Energy Limited joined InterContinental Energy and CWP Global to investigate developing the Western Green Energy Hub in the far southeast of Western Australia in the Shire of Dundas and City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, on the lands of the Mirning people.
The Mirning hold exclusive Native Title rights across most of the proposed project area.
The agreement gives Mirning Green Energy Limited a permanent seat on the Western Green Energy Hub board, a minority 10% free carried interest stake in the project through to Final Investment Decision, and the option of securing majority ownership in 50 years after a financial investment decision is made. The other shareholders are InterContinental Energy (46%) and CWP Global (44%).
Mirning Green Energy is reportedly not required to make any financial contributions to Western Green Energy Hub unless the project is approved. If the project is approved, Mirning Green Energy can choose to contribute to the project costs in order to retain its shares, or sell some or all of its shares.
In its corporate charter, Western Green Energy Hub commits not to undertake any activities on Mirning Lands to which the Mirning do not agree to.
Mirning Green Energy Limited states the shareholder agreement precedes, and is standalone from, the negotiation of the necessary Indigenous Land Use Agreement between the Mirning People and Western Green Energy Hub.
The project
The proposed Western Green Energy Hub would be the world’s largest renewable hub with 25 million solar panels and 3,000 wind turbines.
The project targeting export markets was announced in July 2021.
It is expected to be built in stages over a 15-year period or even 30 years could produce up to 50 gigawatts of hybrid wind and solar power used to produce either 3.5 million tonnes of green hydrogen or 20 million tonnes of green ammonia yearly.
Other components of the proposed project include a green ammonia (or other vector) production facility, workshops and fabrication facilities and worker villages, an infrastructure corridor to the coast, a marine offloading facility, desalination plant, brine pipeline and an ammonia (or other vector) export pipeline.
First production is anticipated by 2032 (with the option of constructing an offshore facility to transfer fuels to ships and a desalination plant), however reports suggest that may accelerate to 2025.
Western Green Energy Hub has reportedly worked with Mirning and Spinifex knowledge holders who have shared 'the significant Cultural Heritage values of the Tjukurpa (song lines), as well as identified localised Cultural Heritage sites'. An infrastructure exclusion zone 15km north of the escarpment line has been requested and agreed to by Western Green Energy Hub.
Western Green Energy Hub can only go ahead with an Indigenous Land Use Agreement in place. The WA Mirning People Aboriginal Corporation's Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) Committee is negotiating with Western Green Energy Hub.
The WA Mirning People Aboriginal Corporation 'is committed to ensuring free, prior and informed consent and will undertake comprehensive community consultations with Mirning People as negotiations develop.'
Where’s it up to?
In December 2021 the Western Australian Government announced the project would receive Lead Agency Services from the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation, designed to help projects through State Government approvals processes.
The following year in September the State Government with InterContinental Energy announced they would each spend $375,000 for an independent consultant to engage in early planning for the project.
Western Green Energy Hub and Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) signed an MOU to collaborate towards a Joint Development Agreement in July 2023.
In September 2024, a new collaboration agreement was signed by the consortium — Mirning Green Energy, CWP Global and Intercontinental Energy — with KEPCO to enable a detailed examination of the project and a full feasibility study on Stage One being ~6GW wind/ solar and ~0.3Mtpa green hydrogen.
A final investment decision (FID) on the first stage of the project is expected by 2029.
In March 2025, it was reported that the project will undergo full federal environmental assessment and require approval under the EPBC Act. The project’s Environmental Scoping Document was approved by the state government in July 2025. A full feasibility study is yet to be progressed.
An Indigenous Land Use Agreement is currently being negotiated with proponents.
In October 2025 it was reported that APA Group had signed an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) for the Western Green Energy Hub.
Project updates
More information
Contact Western Green Energy Hub: Click here