Cash-poor Kimberley fracker Black Mountain expects WA decision soon
The US-owned company is seeking funds from investors to stay a going concern while it awaits state and Federal approval.
Water Corporation is the WA Government-owned utility responsible for water supply and wastewater treatment across the state.
WA Premier Mark McGowan warned Alcoa to lift its game or face curtailed mining, but his successor Roger Cook slashed water supply protections after a possibly empty threat from the US miner.
Longer pipelines into Cockburn Sound must be built before port construction begins or 15 per cent of Perth's water supply will be lost.
WA's environmental watchdog will consider the risk to Perth's water supply and whether the US miner can rehabilitate the forest it strip-mines.
The battle of jobs and Alcoa profits versus the jarrah forest and Perth's water supply will ramp up within weeks when the miner's plans are released.
The $13 billion company will just get a warning letter for secretly creating "an unacceptable risk to drinking water quality."
Roger Cook granting Alcoa greater access to mine near Perth's dams risks could cost taxpayers billions of dollars and result in water restrictions
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