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Tiwai Point: Another 75,000 tonnes of toxic waste revealed to be stored near beach at smelter 7 Mar, 2021 09:03 PM 11 minutes to read Officials told a select committee that the Tiwai Point smelter s legal liability to remediate the site has been difficult to pin down . Photo / Gregor Richar RNZ By Phil Pennington, of RNZ The Bluff aluminium smelter has revealed it has another 75,000 tonnes of highly toxic hazardous waste stored in buildings at Tiwai Point - and does not have a solution what to do with it yet. The company says all 181,000 tonnes of the waste - another 106,000 tonnes is on a concrete pad close to the beach - is safe and secure. ....
Tiwai Point smelter stockpiles 100,000 tonnes of hazardous waste near Bluff beach 21 Feb, 2021 07:31 PM 11 minutes to read The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Photo / NZH RNZ By Phil Pennington of RNZ The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter at Bluff has stockpiled more than 100,000 tonnes of cyanide-laced hazardous waste less than 100 metres from a fast-eroding Southland beach. The smelter company will not reveal its plans for the hazardous waste, despite international industry guidelines it has signed up to that say it should. The government said earlier this month it remained completely blind about what contamination the closure of the smelter at Tiwai Point might leave behind. ....
Tiwai fallout: What the deal means for power prices, politicians and investors? 18 Jan, 2021 04:27 AM 6 minutes to read A new electricity deal means the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter will continue to operate until at least 2024. Photo / Otago Daily Times A new electricity deal means the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter will continue to operate until at least 2024. Photo / Otago Daily Times Few single issues impact the New Zealand economy like the future of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. When Rio Tinto announced it was conducting a strategic review of the smelter in late 2019, billions were wiped off the value of the NZX, more than 1000 people feared for the jobs and Treasury warned that investment in renewable energy could be put off for years. ....