‘A free pass’: Alcoa pushed back from Perth’s drinking water, but not everyone is happy
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New restrictions have been placed on a bauxite miner to protect drinking water in Perth. Mining is now prohibited within two kilometres of water reservoirs to increase protection buffers. The regulations also include increased protection buffers for nesting trees of the black cockatoo.
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.