INPEX has spilled oil into Darwin Harbour, exposed offshore workers to dangerous mercury, and been prosecuted for under-reporting toxic emissions by more than 100-fold, all in the past 12 months.
A letter from the US miner raised hope that the jarrah forest inland from Perth would escape its strip mining for bauxite, but Alcoa is keeping its options open.
Quinn Glabicki is a freelance photojournalist and writer currently covering climate change and the environment for PublicSource.
He has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Guardian
