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Water Corporation shut out of Alcoa’s mine sites to monitor Perth’s drinking water supplies
Documents obtained by the WA Forest Alliance under Freedom of Information (FOI) reveal that Alcoa has attempted to shut Water Corporation inspectors out of its mine sites in order to avoid scrutiny.
Federal exemption for Alcoa to keep ‘killing’ the world’s only jarrah forest an affront to every West Australian
Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt published a ‘statement of reasons’ yesterday, outlining why he granted Alcoa an 18-month exemption to continue mining in WA’s Northern Jarrah Forest, despite being found to have cleared land over 15 years without permission.
Alcoa’s $55 million rehabilitation ‘fine’ a slap on the wrist while strip-mining continues in the Northern Jarrah Forest
The End Forest Mining (EFM) alliance has called an agreement reached with the Australian Government and US mining giant Alcoa to pay $55 million to “remediate historical land clearing” without approval as “a slap on the wrist”.
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For media enquiries please contact: John Cooke, Media Advisor at Conservation Council of WA
0433 679 780/John.cooke@ccwa.org.au
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