WA: Lead shipments given provisional go ahead

AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-2007
WA: Lead shipments given provisional go ahead

Western Australia's environmental watchdog has recommended lead concentrate be allowed
to be shipped through the port of Fremantle.

Magellan Metals .. the company at the centre of the Esperance lead contamination crisis
.. had applied to the Environmental Protection Agency to export the lead from its Wiluna
mine through Fremantle.

Magellan was stopped from shipping the product through Esperance after if was discovered
lead dust was escaping into the town .. and leading to high lead blood levels among parts
of the population .. including some children.

The EPA's today given its approval in principle for the export through Fremantle ..

subject to environmental conditions.

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KEYWORD: MAGELLAN (PERTH)

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