{"id":77742,"date":"2026-02-18T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/us-mining-company-alcoa-hit-with-unprecedented-55m-penalty-for-illegal-clearing-of-wa-jarrah-forests\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:59:52","slug":"us-mining-company-alcoa-hit-with-unprecedented-55m-penalty-for-illegal-clearing-of-wa-jarrah-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/us-mining-company-alcoa-hit-with-unprecedented-55m-penalty-for-illegal-clearing-of-wa-jarrah-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"US mining company Alcoa hit with \u2018unprecedented\u2019 $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cf641fd2a9c66d81d5f408299d91eadd85f60c9b\/960_0_4800_3840\/master\/4800.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=1a47a3f1ffd6cec606631879a6f4b24f\" alt=\"US mining company Alcoa hit with \u2018unprecedented\u2019 $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">US mining company Alcoa hit with \u2018unprecedented\u2019 $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Environment minister says Alcoa cleared known habitat of protected species to enable bauxite miningGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe environment minister, Murray Watt, has handed a $55m penalty to the US mining giant Alcoa for unlawful land clearing for bauxite mining in Western Australia\u2019s northern jarrah forests, south of Perth.As Watt announced the \u201cunprecedented\u201d remediation order, he said he had also granted the company an exemption to clear further habitat for 18 months while the government considered a proposal for an extension of the company\u2019s mining operations to 2045. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/feb\/18\/us-mining-company-alcoa-penalty-for-clearing-wa-jarrah-forests-bauxite-mining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts US mining company Alcoa hit with \u2018unprecedented\u2019 $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests Environment minister says Alcoa cleared known habitat of protected species to enable bauxite miningGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe environment minister, Murray Watt, has handed a $55m penalty to the US mining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}