Phase 2: decontamination, demolition, remediation, and rehabilitation of the refinery footprint. Some of these projects include our decade-long sponsorship of the Yothu Yindu Foundations Garma Festival, and, for more than 30 years, our ongoing support of the Nhulunbuy Community Beach Volleyball Competition. "I think the way that things are happening, we hope that everything should be ok, but I don't think Rio has concern of the small businesses in town," Ms Regan said. A big question on her mind, Robinson said, is whether the demolition will involve detonation or explosions, which she worries could release hidden toxins. To achieve this, we are working with host communities, including Indigenous partners, on rehabilitation, revegetation and long-term monitoring at many sites. Plains Marketing and Plains Pipeline bought the property in 2011 for $220 million from Western Refinery, parent company of Yorktown Refinery. As the planned closure of the Gove Alumina Refinery and Residue Disposal Area progresses, our focus is to provide opportunities directly and indirectly to local and Indigenous businesses in the East Arnhem region. Environment Protection Authority Victoria. We know our operations can have far-reaching impacts on society. "I hope it's not the case, but I imagine they'll leave us in the dark," said Arnhem Allied Health Centre owner Sarah Fincham-Thomson. D&D presents unique hazards that must be addressed from a safety, programmatic, environmental and technological standpoint. We completed six asset closure strategies in 2022, now in place for 38 of our operations. In 2014, we partnered with the Northern Territory Government to fund the establishment of the independent not-for-profit company Developing East Arnhem Limited (DEAL), created to drive economic diversification and stimulate new opportunities in the region. Learn how the GPRFG is supporting a positive transition on their website. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/gove-peninsula-rio-tinto-mine-fears-in-remote-nt/11965658, Get breaking news alerts directly to your phone with our app, Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article. For example, in 2021, 148 hectares of land were surveyed across the Gove mining lease with the Gumatj and Rirratjingu Traditional Owners to protect and preserve sites and story places. Mining on the Gove Peninsula will be finished and its bauxite machinery pulled down and scrapped by 2030 but some fear the chapter which follows may take more than a generation to complete. If a site or an object is identified as significant, it is protected from mining. Together with ERA and other key stakeholders including the Mirarr people, we supported the recent amendments to the Atomic Energy Act 1953 (Cth), which will allow rehabilitation activities at Ranger to extend beyond the previously legislated timeframe of January 2026. . Looking for a Board opportunity to contribute my broad skills and experience. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Status: Active. At the end of 2022, closure provisions on our balance sheet totalled $15.8 billion (2021: $14.5 billion). Joseph, J. Regeneration will also seek to create and trade biodiversity and carbon credits through the rehabilitation of land and the generation of environmental offsets. The South Philadelphia refinery complex dates back to the Civil War era, when it was built as Atlantic Refining Co. Gulf Oil opened a neighboring facility in 1926, and the two operations were bought by Sunoco in 1988 and 1994, respectively. Once the area is tree cleared and the topsoil/overburden removed, the bauxite is ripped by dozers before being hauled to the crusher for sizing. Planning and engineering work will begin in December 2022, with decommissioning activity commencing in 2023 and expected to continue until 2025. If you choose to subscribe to our media releases or other communications, you can unsubscribe at any time (by following the instructions in the email or by contacting us atdigital.comms@riotinto.com). Any non-transferable EM real property is placed in long-term surveillance and monitoring under the DOE Office of Legacy Management. Focused on safe execution, activities will also strive to optimise social, economic and cultural opportunities for the region. Built in Oklahoma City in 1970 and designed by the least well-known member of the Harvard Five, Mummer's is a true late-modern cocktail, described memorably by critic Tom Wilkinson as "an oil refinery converted into a fun house." Its form is a mix of high-flying distended masses penetrated and connected by various services and pathways. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide information, procedures, methods and practices that may be used in the life -cycle management of motor vehicles, motor equipment and watercraft assigned to the DOEs Fleet. **** Power Outage this weekend**** As part of the Refinery demolition works, Rio Tinto Gove Operations will be conducting modifications to the power network to crossover the community power to a. Closure activities will be undertaken alongside continuing bauxite mining operations, which are expected to continue through to 2030. They help us know how often you come to our site and when, how long you stay and any performance issues you experience whilst you are on our site. We buy bauxite from Gulkula and export it nationally and internationally through our port. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. Three operational air squadrons were based there at an airfield on the site of the present Gove airport and at a flying boat base at Drimmie Head. The office leads the transfer of completed projects; manages the transfer of excess contaminated facilities and materials from National Nuclear Security Agency, Office of Science, and the Office of Nuclear Energy; and has the overriding responsibility to support field offices by enabling the effective execution of the mission. Read their reports on this site, and hear them on public radio stations across Pennsylvania. Projects at the permitting or construction stage. If you choose to subscribe to our media releases or other communications, you can unsubscribe at any time (by following the instructions in the email or by contacting us atdigital.comms@riotinto.com). DEC Contaminated Sites contact: Jim Fish, 907-451-2117. However if you choose to provide personal data to Rio Tinto through this website (for example, by sending us an email), we will process that personal data to answer your query and if relevant, to manage our business relationship with you or your company. Analysts say it is likely to mothball the refinery, which is making estimated losses of $US30 million ($A28.81 million) each month. There is additional information in the appendices to the Data Privacy Standard, including information about disclosures, trans-border data transfers, the exercise of data subject rights and how to make complaints or obtain further information relating to Rio Tintos processing of your personal data. Rio Tinto Gove closure forum for local businesses and suppliers Gove closure forum for local businesses and suppliers Tickets, Wed 16/06/2021 at 2:00 pm | Eventbrite Eventbrite, and certain approved third parties, use functional, analytical and tracking cookies (or similar technologies) to understand your event preferences and provide you with . Rehabilitation of the RDA, which will involve capping of ponds and treatment of wastewater in preparation for final landform and area rehabilitation. Much of the contamination at the site is unknown because Evergreen was unable to access land taken up by tanks and pipes while the refinery was still in operation. The Gove closure execution programme will take approximately ten years to complete followed by ongoing monitoring, with mining operations expected to cease no later than 2030. Rio Tinto and the Government provided A$2 million each in seed funding. Julianna Connolly, who is in charge of environmental cleanup at Hilcos properties nationwide, explained in a slide presentation Thursday night how the different companies responsibilities would break down. We partner with universities, governments and other organisations to find opportunities to repurpose and reprocess mineral and industrial waste, improve treatment and valorisation of mining-influenced waters, and explore the social aspects of mine closure. [1] Geography [ edit] 1. The package is aimed to assist in the recovery from the pandemic, secure fuel stocks, lock in jobs and protect Australians from high fuel prices. With your consent, our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. Nhulunbuy NT 0880 As some data privacy laws regulate IP addresses and other information collected through the use of cookies as personal data, Rio Tintos processing of such personal data needs to comply with its Data Privacy Standard (see Part 1 of ourPrivacy Policy), and also applicable data privacy laws. Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) are making progress preparing the Hanford Sites K West Reactor spent-fuel storage basin for draining and demolition. List of refinery Distributors near Newfoundland. Only process contaminated excess facilities and wastes are D&D by EM. "There's possibly impacts on wildlife, yes, absolutely," Ms Marika said. Mr Manderson, 61, a fitter, was crushed to death while perfoming routine maintenance work on Tuesday. The plateau has been variably dissected by erosion into three main plateau areas. "It's very close to the bay, you never know if the fish are being poisoned. While mining continues at our Gove bauxite operations in the Northern Territory in Australia, we are implementing progressive closure activities, including the decommissioning and demolition of the refinery and progressive capping of the bauxite residue disposal areas. They help us know how often you come to our site and when, how long you stay and any performance issues you experience whilst you are on our site. Rio subsidiary Pacific Aluminium says it will keep open the giant Gove refinery, following a deal with the Northern Territory government to convert the diesel-fed plant to run on gas. The Gove alumina refinery is located in East-Arnhem Land, Northern Territory and commenced production in 1972. That's what I sort of expect [but] I hope Rio has learnt from the harm that it brought on people from a business sense but also from a personal sense [in 2014]. While a funding solution for the rehabilitation is being identified and agreed by new ERA Independent Directors, we agreed to amend an existing A$100 million credit facility to assist ERA with its management of immediate liquidity issues. The air pollutant is particularly toxic for children to breathe, even in small amounts, because it causes leukemia. Workers lower detection equipment through an opening in the roof of the East Cell Bank at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to capture readings inside the facility. Mobil's Port Stanvac Refinery was located south of Adelaide and consisted of fuels and lubricants processing streams. Pa. drillers abandoned thousands of natural gas wells in 5 years, ignored state law, report says, In Pa., heat pumps could be a climate change solution. Click on photos or maps for larger versions. He said he hoped the site would help benefit Yolngu in the future, after the plant was eventually fully removed. by Christopher Surgenor (GreenAir Online) Leading B2B travel platform American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has reached an agreement with CHOOOSE to integrate the climate tech company's carbon emissions calculations across Amex GBT's travel booking and reporting tools. 3.01 Security fencing shall be provided around the perimeter of the demolition site and any additional precautionary measures taken, as may be necessary to prevent The Indigenous people of North East Arnhem land, the Yolngu, have lived in the region for more than 65,000 years and practise one of the longest living traditional cultures in the world. "We're planning to deal with all the big questions that have to happen around transition land tenure, town governance, essential services, and those sort of things that have to be resolved between here and there to have a really strong service centre into the future," Mr Rogers said. Demolishing the former PES refinery complex, now owned byHilco Redevelopment Partners, will take four years and will include the removal of 35,000 tons of asbestos, 850,000 barrels of hydrocarbons, 100 buildings, and 950 miles of pipe, company officials told members of the public at a virtual meeting. Watch a new video featuring subject matter experts from EM and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) discussing the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project. Rio Tinto Gove Operations has been recognised at the 2018 Chief Ministers Northern Territory Export and Industry Awards for its achievements as a world-class producer of bauxite to the global aluminium industry. Uplift, weathering, and erosion of the sediments, as well as formation of the bauxite, took place during the Tertiary, but exact timing and detail of events remains uncertain. The industrial Port Stanvac wharf at the former Adelaide Refinery site has been removed and Mobil is finalising remediation of the foreshore in order to be able to hand the area back to the South Australian government. Following operational shutdown and transition the first disposition activity is usually to deactivate the facility. Smokestacks which once billowed have been scaffolded and stripped down, with work starting on sections which pose a hazard to both humans and the environment. With the exception of the use of cookies (explained below), Rio Tinto generally does not seek to collect personal data through this website. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This program runs year-round. There have been many notable arson attacks on military recruitment offices in Russia since the beginning of the war, and there has been speculation that some of the fires or explosions have been the result of sabotage . November 8, 2017 - 12:49AM Rio Tinto have decided to never reopen the Gove refinery. DEALs focus is to link private enterprise, industry, community and government agencies to supporteconomic diversification and growth in the East Arnhem region for the benefit of the regional population. We spend approximately A$50 million each year on a wide a range of goods and services provided by local Indigenous businesses including earthworks and construction, fencing, maintenance, waste management, heritage services and environmental and land rehabilitation services. on the Business environment in China. The groups members wanted answers about the complex nature of the cleanup, how current demolition activities would affect those efforts, and who among the former and current owners were responsible for carrying them out. The site has 31 air monitors that measure for benzene every two weeks. The purpose of the deactivation mission is to place a facility in a safe shutdown condition that is economical to monitor and maintain for an extended period until the eventual decommissioning of the facility. View detailed information from the database on this site. Workers have removed materials such as oils, combustibles and environmental hazards from the C-333-A Feed Vaporization Facility at EMs Paducah Site as part of recent actions to prepare the building and its adjoining process gas building. We need to evaluate whether those have the potential to impact the indoor air quality. Privacy Policy The team examines the critical technical barriers and research needed to radically lower the cost and energy of desalination to secure an affordable, energy-efficient and resilient water supply for the US economy. "A bill for an act relating to state government; creating a commission to redesign the official state flag and the official state seal; requiring a report; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 1.135, subdivisions 2, 4, 6, by adding a subdivision; 1.141, subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 1.135, subdivisions 3, 5; 1 . Routine maintenance work on Tuesday phase 2: decontamination, demolition, remediation, and of. 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