Commercial production of the new expanded Aluminium Fluoride plant at Visakhapatnam will be commenced with effect from 1st May 2021. Alufluoride Limited has informed the exchange regarding the commencement of its business operations. The Company confirms, commercial production of the new expanded Aluminium Fluoride plant at Visakhapatnam* will be commenced with effect from 1st May 2021. […]
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Intalco fined for discharge violations
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The State Department of Ecology has released a summary of environmental penalties issued for the first quarter of 2021. Ecology issued over $83,000 in penalties of $1,000 or more from January through March. The Alcoa Intalco Aluminum was fined $2500 for several discharge violations. Ecology reports the Ferndale facility exceeded fluoride discharge […]
Tiwai Point smelter: Reports detail closure efforts, historical contamination
Environmental experts checking on contamination at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter are looking at 400 samples from 200 sites. The NZAS has promised to close the smelter at the end of 2024 in a responsible manner. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon The smelter company has released a 40-page plan that commissioned independent experts GHD are working […]
Australian Bauxite converts smelter waste to aluminium flouride [sic]
The Bell Bay industrial precinct in Tasmania, where Alcore is hoping to build an aluminium fluoride production plant. Credit: TasInvest ASX-listed Australian Bauxite’s 87 per cent-owned chemical refining subsidiary, Alcore may be on the cusp of turning aluminium smelter waste into treasure after producing aluminium fluoride samples from waste known as “dross” in recent test […]
Toxic waste buried at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, former staff say
Investigators are looking into claims highly toxic waste has been buried in unmapped sites at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Tiwai Point. File photo Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon This includes spent cell liner (SCL) waste that contains cyanide and toxic fluoride, and is banned from being buried untreated in both the US and Australia. The […]
NZAS looks to export toxic waste stockpiled at Tiwai Point
Robyn Edie/Stuff An aerial photo of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter with Bluff township and Bluff Hill in the backdrop. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters is exploring options to export more of the toxic waste it has stockpiled at Tiwai Point. The news comes just days after Environment Southland announced it would increase testing and […]
Effects of fluoride emission on the morphoanatomy of three plant species endemics to Brazil using passive biomonitoring.
Abstract Fluoride is the most phytotoxic atmospheric pollutant. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of fluoride emissions by an aluminum smelter on three plant species endemics to Brazil, located at Parque Estadual do Itacolomi (PEI). The monitored species were Byrsonima variabilis (Malpighiaceae), Myrceugenia alpigena (Myrtaceae), and Eremanthus erythropappus (Asteraceae), which were […]
After receiving 350 public comments, DEQ “withdraws” from proposed Special Order by Consent with Alcoa
Alcoa/Badin Business Park violated its discharged permit limits for cyanide and fluoride leaving Outfall 005, which flows into Little Mountain Creek. The creek ultimately connects with Lake Tillery, a drinking water reservoir, about six miles downstream. Alcoa had proposed pumping the contaminated water to Outfall 012, where cyanide and fluoride will flow into Badin Lake. The company […]
Environment Minister David Parker slams Tiwai Point smelter’s stockpiling of hazardous waste
The Government tried to get Tiwai Point aluminium smelter to clean up toxic waste at its Southland site but failed. Environment Minister David Parker admitted this today in slamming New Zealand Aluminium Smelters, saying he was “incredibly frustrated” at the “uncooperative” company. RNZ yesterday revealed the smelter at Bluff has stockpiled 106,000 tonnes of cyanide-laced […]
Tiwai Point smelter stockpiles 100,000 tonnes of hazardous waste near Bluff beach
The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Photo / NZH The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter at Bluff has stockpiled more than 100,000 tonnes of cyanide-laced hazardous waste less than 100 metres from a fast-eroding Southland beach. The smelter company will not reveal its plans for the hazardous waste, despite international industry guidelines it has signed up to […]