Water Corporation concluded that contamination of Perth’s dams is “certain” but the state government heavily watered-down its recommendations to reduce the risks from bauxite mining.
Alcoa’s funding will support a forest research centre for five years and will also boost its own team of environmental researchers from four to eleven.
The WA environment regulator opposed Alcoa’s mining but proposed safeguards if it went ahead. The Cook government ignored the first recommendation and watered down the second.
Aluminium giant Alcoa has moved to take over Alumina Limited in a blockbuster deal.
After six decades the US miner has left Kwinana with a contaminated plant and enough toxic red mud to fill Optus Stadium 138 times.
US miner Alcoa will stop producing alumina at its Kwinana refinery by September,leading to the loss of 550 direct jobs with another 200 to go in the following 12 months.
The boss of Alcoa Australia has been promoted to lead the US miner’s global operation from his Perth base after just seven months with the aluminium specialist.
Alcoa’s controversial mining of bauxite in WA’s south-west will be subject to the most detailed review possible by the state’s independent environment watchdog.
US miner Alcoa will choose who monitors whether its bauxite extraction that threatens Perth’s water supply complies with new guidelines announced by the state government on Thursday.
Perth’s largest source of drinking water has escaped damage from a massive blaze that burnt along its water edge over the weekend.
The WA Premier thinks local workers deserve better than the US miner telling its investors one thing,and the WA government another.