‘A free pass’: Alcoa pushed back from Perth’s drinking water, but not everyone is happy
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New restrictions will keep Alcoa's bauxite mining at least two kilometres from Perth drinking-water reservoirs and increase protection buffers around black cockatoo nesting trees. The measures have been welcomed by some, while others remain dissatisfied with the outcome.
New restrictions on the bauxite miner include increasing protection buffers for water reservoirs by prohibiting mining within two kilometres, and increasing protection buffers for black cockatoo nesting trees.
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