Tag: Alcoa
Alcoa extends search for Anglesea power plant buyer
By NOEL MURPHY
ALCOA’S Anglesea power plant remains on the market with several potential buyers vying for the controversial coal-powered plant despite expectations it would...
Double Take: Namatjira, keep on trucking, wet sail …
“AS SLOW as a wet week” took on added meaning with the region copping a bucketing with an average of 42.5 mm of rain.
The...
25 jobs lost on Alcoa clean-up
By PAUL MILLAR
A MOOLAP operation pinning its hopes of survival on processing Alcoa’s landfill will close its doors next month.
Alreco, employing up to 25...
Anglesea air activist claims, figures at odds
By NOEL MURPHY
POTENTIAL buyers of Alcoa’s Anglesea power plant should be aware its “appalling level of emissions” were recognised at the “highest level” of...
Alcoa closes Geelong while flourishing OS, with Ford and aerospace
By NOEL MURPHY
ALCOA is buying up in the aerospace industry and in Ford – two industries once deemed the future of Geelong -- as...
Pregnant mum in new anti-coal scare campaign
By NOEL MURPHY
SURF Coast air activists are ramping up Anglesea’s anti-coal scare campaign, accusing Alcoa’s power station of emitting arsenic, lead and mercury near...
Alcoa to 250 staffers: Yule be out of work
By NOEL MURPHY
ALCOA’S last 250 Geelong workers will face a bleak, uncertain Christmas when they farewell the aluminium plant after 51 years of operation...
Geelong loses as Ford, Alcoa prosper in US
ALCOA’S Geelong workers might be gearing up for another 300 Christmas job losses but in the US the aluminium-maker's F150 pick-up trucks with Ford...
Alcoa power plant emissions fine, says EPA
ALCOA’S controversial Anglesea coal-fired power plant emissions are within EPA limits, the environmental authority this week said.
The mine, subject of a protracted campaign anti-coal...
Surf Coast fire fear on Anglesea Alcoa mine
By NOEL MURPHY
ALCOA’S Anglesea coal mine should not host a repeat of Morwell’s Hazelwood fire fiasco, says Surf Coast Shire.
The shire’s council will ask...
‘No GDF Suez plans’ for Alcoa Anglesea
By Noel Murphy
INDUSTRY sources have rejected claims wind energy company GDF Suez Australian Energy is looking to buy Alcoa's Anglesea coal-fired power plant.
GDF Suez,...
$128m to shut Alcoa’s Point Henry smelter
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
CLOSING Point Henry's aluminium smelter cost joint owners Alcoa and Alumina $128 million, according to financial statements.
But Alumina Ltd reported that...
Standing in solidarity
Hundreds gathered together at the break of dawn on July 7 to stand with Wadawurrung Traditional Owners in collaboration with Barwon Coast for a...
