Alcoa Australia has been fined $45,000 for failing to stop dust from an alumina refinery south of Perth from affecting local residents.Alcoa had pleaded guilty to breaching environmental regulations by allowing visible dust from a bauxite refining process to escape its Wagerup alumina facility in May 2006.
The dust spread over a wide area, causing some residents to suffer headaches, burning throats and skin and eye irritations, the prosecution said.
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