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Queensland Alumina Ltd fined $500k in damages over 2018 environmental breach in Gladstone FriFriday 18 updated FriFriday 18 DecDecember 2020 at 6:40am Queensland Alumina Limited is one of the largest alumina refineries in the world and is owned by Rio Tinto and aluminium company Rusal. ( Share Print text only Cancel Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) has pleaded guilty to environmental charges over a 2018 incident where chemicals were mistakenly released into the atmosphere, and fined $500,000 in...

Premium Content Subscriber only Two Queensland Alumina Limited staff were not properly trained to prevent a serious environmental breach when the alarm was raised on September 8, 2018, a court has heard. The error resulted in a two to three tonne slurry of alkaline bauxite being released into the air which travelled 11km south and impacted 119 properties and vehicles in the South Tree Industrial State and caused $868,906.78 in insurance payouts. Crown prosecutor Deborah Holiday, acting for t...

EXCLUSIVE: A billion dollar-plus net worth wasnt on Mal Pratts mind when he left the family business with just a shovel, a ute and a hammer to pursue his dream of being a builder. It was a different time then. Unemployment could be solved with a trip to the Maroochy Pub for a chat with the clientele. A job was usually secured within the first few schooners. Bosses would send labourers to help on another site if they knew a fellow builder was short a set of hands. It was 1972. Having spen...