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Mozambique: BHP Billiton plans six month bypass of smelter smokestack scrubbers
Maputo — Civil society groups are challenging a six-month authorisation granted aluminium giant BHP Billiton to emit potentially dangerous fumes from its Mozal smelter into the air without treating them first. In May, the government gave BHP Billiton’s Mozal smelter, located in the town of Matola, 17 kilometres from the capital, the go-ahead to bypass […]
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Hungarian sludge flood from the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt aluminium plant near Ajka
Hungary yesterday declared a state of emergency in three of its 19 counties after the catastrophic release on Monday of at least 700,000 cubic metres of toxic sludge from a containment basin at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt aluminium plant near Ajka, around hundred kilometres southwest of Budapest. At least four people died and at least […]
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Boyne Smelters in Gladstone moves to reduce emissions
A central Queensland aluminium smelter has acknowledged it needs to substantially reduce its emissions to meet tough new environmental guidelines. Boyne Smelters Ltd (BSL) in Gladstone has been told it needs to reduce fluoride emissions by 20 per cent and particulate emissions by 30 per cent to meet new licensing requirements by the Department of […]
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Alcoa abandons Anglesea project in win for worried locals
ALCOA has abandoned an alternative-fuel trial planned for Anglesea’s power station, in a win for the town’s residents. The company was hoping to process a waste product called HiCAL40 carbon fuel, which would have increased airborne fluoride emissions. Similar emissions at an Alcoa facility in Portland led to Kangaroos that grazed in the area developing […]
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Angry mums battle Alcoa trial at Anglesea
ANGRY parents have vowed to remove their children from Anglesea Primary School if a controversial trial at the nearby Alcoa power station goes ahead. More than 100 parents and residents packed an Alcoa-run meeting last night to discuss the mining giant’s plan to trial a by-product called HiCal 40 carbon fuel. The project is on […]
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Alcoa tight-lipped as controversial project delayed
An Alcoa fuel trial at Anglesea has been put on hold, easing health fears for the town’s primary school students. Alcoa’s Anglesea Power Station planned to start processing a by-product called HiCAL40 carbon fuel next month, to determine whether it was a viable alternative to brown coal. Alcoa has refused to comment to the Geelong […]
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Mozambique: Pollution From Mozal Insignificant, Argue Academics
Pollution from the Mozal aluminium smelter, with or without filters, is insignificant compared with pollution from slash-and-burn agriculture, motor vehicles or wood fuel, academics from the physics department at Mozambique’s Eduardo Mondlane University argued on Thursday. They were speaking at a public meeting held by Mozal in the southern city of Matola to explain plans […]
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Alcoa testing raises toxic fears for kids
AN environment expert has warned an Anglesea power station trial may harm students at the nearby primary school, but authorities say the community will be safe. Fluoride emissions, similar to those that deformed kangaroo bones in Portland, will increase when Alcoa starts processing a waste product called HiCal 40 carbon fuel in coming weeks. Alcoa […]
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Anglesea Alcoa toxin fears for new school
FLUORIDE emissions, that deformed the bones of kangaroos in Portland, will increase in Anglesea with a trial to start about 800m from the town’s new primary school. The Alcoa power station will process a waste product called HiCal 40 carbon fuel to determine whether it can be used as an alternative to brown coal. Alcoa […]
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Kangaroos are victims of Alcoa’s fluoride emissions
SCORES of starving and pain-ridden kangaroos have been culled after developing tooth and bone deformities from breathing and ingesting fluoride emissions. Many more are believed to be suffering from growths that will kill them. The affected kangaroos are living near the Alcoa aluminium smelter in Portland, in the state’s south-west, and the Austral Bricks factory […]
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