An ABC News story featured online this week, saw former crewmen who worked on a McArthur River Mine barge, transporting lead-zinc concentrate, say that they have witnessed regular spills of the product overboard for a decade.
Jason Fowler, KTECH’s Campaign Coordinator was quoted in the article, and explains that this is an “an unacceptable situation” because “lead and zinc concentrate is heavy metals — when they fall in the ocean they bioaccumulate up the food chain.”
Watch the ABC Darwin News report.
Read the ABC News article from Sunday December 16 here.
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