ENVIRONMENT

Greenbushes growth under scrutiny

WESTERN Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority has asked Talison Lithium Australia for more information on how its proposed expansion of the 30-year-old Greenbushes lithium mine will impact resident black cockatoos, chuditches and western ringtail possums.

The Chuditch, or the Western Quoll is Western Australia's largest endemic mammalian carnivore.

The Chuditch, or the Western Quoll is Western Australia's largest endemic mammalian carnivore.

Talison wants to expand the existing operations to increase spodumene ore and lithium mineral concentrate production at the mine, which is near the town of Greenbushes in WA's South West. Under the...

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