Greenwash Claim as Miner Pledges to Stay Away From Town

Greenwash Claim as Miner Pledges to Stay Away From Town
Bauxite is processed at Guinea's largest bauxite mining firm, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG), at Kamsar, a town north of the capital Conakry, on Oct. 23, 2008. Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images
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Environmentalists have dismissed a pledge by alumina giant Alcoa not to mine near a tourist town home to ancient Jarrah forests.

The company says it will not seek to mine within three kilometres of Dwellingup, in the Darling Range southeast of Perth, committing to an exclusion zone across its bauxite mining lease more than four times the size of Rottnest Island.