End Forest Mining news
Campaign Updates
Alcoa working overtime in attempt to claw back social licence
A few months ago we received some seemingly excellent news: Alcoa would withdraw from exploring in areas surrounding Mundaring Weir, and expand mining avoidance zones around Dwellingup. Whilst this is an incredible win for the Perth hills communities who objected to Alcoa’s mining plans, it’s not exactly all Alcoa makes it out to be.
Back from the Brink: A protection agenda for nature
Back from the Brink: A Protection Agenda for Nature is a new report by Conservation Council of WA (CCWA), calling for sweeping nature law reforms in Western Australia to avoid further threatened species extinctions.
Concerned Western Australians stop work at Alcoa’s Huntly mine site for three hours
On Monday 13 April, work stopped at Alcoa’s Huntly mine site for three hours as a result of direct action by a group of 16 concerned Western Australians. This was the first time direct action has stopped Alcoa’s mining activities since the 1970s.
Media Releases
Alcoa doubles down on Jarrah Forest destruction while South32 cut and run amidst public backlash
This morning US company Alcoa announced the acquisition of South32’s alumina and aluminium assets including South32’s WA operations – the Boddington bauxite mine and its share in the Worsley alumina refinery – expanding Alcoa’s already massive clearing and lease area, and making Alcoa the third largest emitter in WA.
WA’s new climate wrecking power couple: Alcoa and Woodside team up in new deal
The fanfare from Woodside about supplying gas to Alcoa is a cynical move amid increasing and popular pressure for a federal gas reservation policy and increasing opposition to the North West Shelf facility and Browse gas export proposal.
Alcoa’s withdrawal of drilling operations in the Perth hills further evidence the mining giant has lost its social license
The End Forest Mining alliance and Bibbul Ngarma...
Media Contact
For media enquiries please contact: John Cooke, Media Advisor at Conservation Council of WA
0433 679 780/John.cooke@ccwa.org.au
Subscribe
Get End Forest Mining news straight to your inbox and always be up to date on the campaign.