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Emails show Yeelirrie uranium mine approved a month before 2019 election after pressure from Cameco
By national science, technology and environment reporter Michael Slezak and the Specialist Reporting Team s Penny Timms
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The Yeelirrie uranium project has a long and sordid history and a sod has not yet been turned.
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The dry red dirt around Yeelirrie station looks utterly inhospitable.
Sitting about 800 kilometres from Perth, in the far north of Western Australia s Goldfields region, the dry and remote land is dotted with spinifex, some small bushes and trees and not much else.
EPA to investigate as Nyrstar admits Port Pirie smelter will exceed annual lead emissions limit
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Nyrstar was directed to reduce its annual lead emissions when it signed a new licence.
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Port Pirie s smelter is on track to cut annual lead emissions by almost 20 per cent but is still forecast to breach limits set in a new licence, resources company Nyrstar says.
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Nyrstar says it will exceed new emissions limits this year, although they have dropped from previous years
The new limits were set six months ago, with Nyrstar s new licence issued in July
Stokes-backed controversial Mid West gas project gets go ahead
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The joint venture behind the proposal to build WA’s biggest ever onshore gas plant has pulled the trigger on the project.
Japanese conglomerate Mitsui Australia and Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy made a final investment decision to proceed with their controversial Waitsia stage two gas project in WA’s Mid-West after inking key agreements with the government and other stakeholders.
An artists impression of the Waitsia stage 2 gas plant.
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