Alcoa investigation
World-first test gives Alcoa two stars for Australian environmental performance
A ground-breaking international research team casts a fresh light on the US giant’s aims and activities in Western Australia, and exposes some sobering truths.
- by Emma Young
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Opinion
Biodiversity
Australia’s nature-positive laws at risk as WA drives ‘nature negative’
The West Australian government, and sections of our media, are presenting a false picture of what WA voters want to the rest of the country.
- by Jess Beckerling
Alcoa’s mountains of red mud fail to pass stability checks
Alcoa is storing enough caustic bauxite residue to fill Optus Stadium more than 350 times in areas south of Perth that have failed to be certified as stable.
- by Peter Milne
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Biodiversity
WA’s environment regulator cuts efforts to protect nature around state to deal with Alcoa
The burden of enforcing special arrangements to allow Alcoa to keep mining bauxite has forced WA’s environment regulator to severely cut its efforts to protect nature throughout the rest of the state.
- by Peter Milne
On notice: WA watchdog sets Alcoa a deadline for mining approvals
The Environmental Protection Authority has warned Alcoa to provide the information it needs on time, or risk stricter conditions on its mining in WA forests.
- by Peter Milne
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Alumina Limited
Worries of ‘irreversible’ damage to jarrah forest by Alcoa revealed
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.
- by Peter Milne
Alcoa boosts research amid concerns ‘extensive knowledge gaps’ threaten Perth’s water supply
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.
- by Peter Milne
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Bauxite
WA government overrode water supply warnings to approve Alcoa mining
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.
- by Peter Milne
WA government to spend $10m monitoring Alcoa’s mining near Perth’s dams
Alcoa’s troubled bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forest will have extra government scrutiny costing $10.5 million over four years as the US miner seeks to repair its tarnished environmental credentials.
- by Peter Milne
Opinion
Bauxite
When will Alcoa clean up in Kwinana?
After six decades the US miner has left Kwinana with a contaminated plant and enough toxic red mud to fill Optus Stadium 138 times.
- by Peter Milne
Alcoa to shut down Kwinana refinery that employs 1100 workers
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.
- by Peter Milne
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