Woodside sold the project to an insubstantial company to avoid a few hundred million in decommissioning costs: now it and its competitors will pay the price.
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.
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.
