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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.
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.
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.
CEO Graham Kerr says South32 might reshape the mine’s output. He also says his Worsley alumina refinery doesn’t have the issues that shuttered Alcoa’s Kwinana.
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.