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Wagerup Power Station is a 380MW dual natural gas and distillate fuelled power station located at Alcoa’s Wagerup refinery in south-west Western Australia. [1] Located about 130 km south of Perth, on the border of Western Australia’s Peel and South West regions, the Power Station is four kilometres north of Yarloop and 13 km south of Waroona.
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Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals is a owned 100% by Alcoa Corp. and is abbreviated to AWAC. AWAC's business is the mining of bauxite, [1] the extraction of alumina (aluminium oxide) and the smelting of aluminium. It has about 25% of the global alumina market. Alcoa acts as the day-to-day manager.
Alcoa have operated an alumina refinery in Wagerup since 1984. For years, residents and Alcoa workers have reported illnesses such as respiratory irritation, frequent nosebleeds, headaches, nausea and higher rates of cancer, as reported in numerous media outlets including the ABC's Four Corners program, [3] although no formal causal link has ever been established.
Alcoa uses 12,600 GWh, or 15% of Victoria's electricity annually. [59] Alcoa's Western Australian Wagerup plant has a troubled history in the context of claims that pollution from the plant has harmed the health of members of the adjacent local community. [60] [61] [62]
Reference: Page 2, Inside Cover article "The West Australian" newspaper dated Wednesday 24th January, 2007. Reporter Ben Martin exposes edits from an IP address at the Alcoa servers being responsible for editing the wikipedia article on Wagerup to remove mention of the debate on health effects on the community from it's refinery.
A notable issue in the town was alleged emissions from the Alcoa alumina refinery at nearby Wagerup. For years, some residents have reported illnesses such as respiratory irritation, frequent blood noses, headaches, nausea and cancer, as reported in numerous media outlets, including the Four Corners program "Something in the Air", [ 9 ...
By 08:00 the fire enters Hamel and an hour later, the fire was heading towards the Wagerup refinery northeast of Yarloop and fire crews were sent there soon afterwards and spend the rest of the morning fighting the blaze in the area. [5] The plant loses power mid-afternoon and by 19:00 the refinery's gas plant was under threat. [5]