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• Lead contamination report finds 'litany of failures'

  Published: September 5, 2007, 11:19 pm

  Tags: Mining, Maritime Accidents, Workplace Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Environmental Management, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, State Parliament, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Nationals, Democrats, Greens, One Nation, Minor Parties, Esperance 6450

  The State Government has apologised to the people of Esperance after a parliamentry committee attacked several agencies for allowing lead contamination in the town.

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• EPA promises to heed lead contamination report findings

  Published: September 6, 2007, 8:27 pm

  Tags: Mining, Pollution, States Territories, Lead, Australia, Esperance 6450

  One of the government agencies criticised in a parliamentary report on the Esperance lead contamination says it will heed the report's findings.

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• Man almost buried alive in tonnes of peas

  Published: May 4, 2008, 6:18 pm

  Tags: Workplace Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Esperance 6450

  A man has been rescued from a grain silo in Western Australia after being buried up to his neck in tonnes of peas.

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• BHP Billiton opens $2 billion nickel mine

  Published: May 22, 2008, 11:13 pm

  Tags: Company News, Mining, Regional Development, Stockmarket, Albany 6330, Esperance 6450, Kalgoorlie 6430, Perth 6000, Ravensthorpe 6346

  BHP Billiton has officially opened its $2 billion nickel laterite mine at Ravensthorpe in Western Australia.

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