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  1. Alcoa Under Fire for Forest Clearing in Western Australia

    Alcoa fined $55 million for clearing WA forests. Learn how this affects protected species and future mining plans.

    #Alcoa #WesternAustralia #EnvironmentalFine #JarrahForest #MiningImpact

    newsletter.tf/alcoa-fined-55m-

  2. Alcoa has been fined $55 million for clearing over 2,000 hectares of protected forest in Western Australia. This is a significant penalty for environmental damage.

    #Alcoa #WesternAustralia #EnvironmentalFine #JarrahForest #MiningImpact
    newsletter.tf/alcoa-fined-55m-

  3. Another day, another multinational gets a ‘record’ fine for trashing irreplaceable nature. Alcoa just copped $55M AUD for illegally clearing over 2,000 hectares of WA’s precious jarrah forest for bauxite mining (2019-2025). Called ‘unprecedented’ by the govt, but for a company with billions in revenue? Total slap on the wrist while they keep mining. Jarrah forests aren’t renewable. 😡

    #Environment #Mining #JarrahForest #Alcoa #multinationals #environmentaljustice

    abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/alc

  4. Another day, another multinational gets a ‘record’ fine for trashing irreplaceable nature. Alcoa just copped $55M AUD for illegally clearing over 2,000 hectares of WA’s precious jarrah forest for bauxite mining (2019-2025). Called ‘unprecedented’ by the govt, but for a company with billions in revenue? Total slap on the wrist while they keep mining. Jarrah forests aren’t renewable. 😡

    #Environment #Mining #JarrahForest #Alcoa #multinationals #environmentaljustice

    abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/alc

  5. @theguardian_world_news
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    $55 million has bought Alcoa +3200 hectares of jarah forest to strip mine. And the corporate captured Cook government looking at allowing that strip mining by Alcoa to continue to destroy jarrah forest for at least the next 20 years.

    (And how much of that $55 million would Alcoa have had to spend anyway?)

    #Perth #Alcoa #WA #WesternAustralia #Jarrah

  6. @theguardian_world_news
    1/2
    $55 million has bought Alcoa +3200 hectares of jarah forest to strip mine. And the corporate captured Cook government looking at allowing that strip mining by Alcoa to continue to destroy jarrah forest for at least the next 20 years.

    (And how much of that $55 million would Alcoa have had to spend anyway?)

    #Perth #Alcoa #WA #WesternAustralia #Jarrah

  7. @zenhob i blame pushing agi up to 2030 as the main culprit #alcoa can't wait for tomorrow #adm

  8. @zenhob i blame pushing agi up to 2030 as the main culprit #alcoa can't wait for tomorrow #adm

  9. #Perth, #WesternAustralia

    The wind has been in from the #Alcoa alumina refinery at #Kwinanna for a day.

    A plume of #NaOH smell puts an astringent edge to the air , more so if you care to admit that you're breathing the stuff in.

    Surprisingly #KerryStokes doesn't make much of this in the media he owns.

  10. US #mining giant #Alcoa has been extracting #aluminium from forests in #WesternAustralia for six decades – under the condition the land it uses is rehabilitated. But new research has found the company is falling short of meeting its promise. #auspol #miningindustry

    youtube.com/watch?v=-iwjitcVQ_

  11. 📉 U.S. #stocks mixed as investors await the Fed’s decision this week. #Dow +0.5%, #SP500 -0.2%, #NASDAQ -0.9%.

    🔍 #Fed rate #cut speculation: 50% chance of 50 bps, 50% / 25 bps.

    📰 #Pfizer +1.2% on trial results; #Intel +3% with $3.5B in grants; #Alcoa +5.3% after stake sale.

  12. #LandBack at #Barnhart:
    Contextualizing the Re-occupation of #BarnhartIsland in Shared Legacies of Struggle

    From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine, the struggle at #Akwesasne is rooted in the shared struggle of all #OppressedPeoples of the world who are opposing the illogic of #SettlerCapitalism and the endless violation of the #lands and #waters that our current economic system necessitates.

    By Jennifer Lee
    June 25, 2024

    "On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (#Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '#Akwesasne8' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.

    "Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the #Akwesasne8 have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.

    "The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of #Hydropower,' the Moses-Saunders #hydrodam, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily #polluting factories since the 1950s.

    "For decades, dirty plants like #Alcoa, #GeneralMotors, and #ReynoldsMetals harnessed the immense power of the #Kaniatarowanenneh (#SaintLawrenceRiver) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called #Québec. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on #Indigenous land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism.

    "Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a #toxic #sludge containing polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious #corporation #Monsanto, which continues to evade public #accountability for discharging this known #carcinogen into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The #carcinogenic soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily #polluted #superfund sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare #cancer, #MetabolicSyndrome, or #autoimmune disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.

    "Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB #dumpsite of the #GeneralMotors (#GM) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '#environmental #genocide.'"

    Read more:

    magazine.scienceforthepeople.o

    #EnvironmentalRacism #Ecocide

  13. #SP500 endured its lengthiest losing streak since October amid surging treasury yields, tempering expectations for rate cuts. Despite upbeat #earnings from #AlaskaAir and #Alcoa, chip stocks faced headwinds, with #TSMC and #Micron grappling with growth worries. #StockMarket