Media: ‘Secret documents reveal state government’s Wittenoom dilemma’ - Business News
Story by Tom Zaunmayr, Business News 28 October 2025
‘The state government has been told on at least three occasions that asbestos fibres will leach further into the Pilbara landscape if Wittenoom’s tailings are not remediated.
For six decades about three million tonnes of tailings dumped mostly by CSR Limited in the gorges around Wittenoom between 1948 and 1966 have sat uncontained and at risk of dispersal by wind and rain.’
