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.
Worsley Alumina is a South32-owned bauxite miner in WA's South West. Bauxite mined near Boddington is transported by conveyor to an alumina refinery near Collie largely powered by coal. The alumina is then railed to Bunbury for export.
WA's industrial greenhouse gas emissions are dominated by four products and a handful of companies, including a few that have managed to keep a low profile in the climate wars.
