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Clarity a bridge too far for FMG

Accountability comes hard and fast within the Fortescue “family" when things go wrong at a key growth project like the Iron Bridge magnetite project in Western Australia’s Pilbara. But not transparency.

Barry FitzGerald*
Fortescue Metals Group's (former) core leadership team (L-R); CFO Ian Wells, CEO Elizabeth Gaines, chairman Andrew Forrest, deputy CEO Julie Shuttleworth and now-departed COO Greg Lilleyman

Fortescue Metals Group's (former) core leadership team (L-R); CFO Ian Wells, CEO Elizabeth Gaines, chairman Andrew Forrest, deputy CEO Julie Shuttleworth and now-departed COO Greg Lilleyman

Just ask departed chief operating officer Greg Lilleyman and two other project executives, all of whom have resigned due to apparent delays and a major cost blow-out at the project. The suggestion is...

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