Environment officials have sought to reassure residents living near a coal-fired power station about local air quality, after the plant submitted wildly inaccurate NPI data on particle emissions.
Industrial companies in the Kwinana industrial area and the Department of Environmental Regulation should establish a comprehensive public database on the estate's air emissions, WA EPA chair Paul Vogel has told CE Daily.
Efforts to rezone land in Port Hedland for a marina and residential development are on hold after being opposed by the EPA and WA health department, as well as BHP Billiton.
After demanding monitoring and modelling before making a final decision, a tribunal has granted planning approval for a new concrete batching plant in a zone where dust is already a source of complaints.