30/11/2025
People of Perth and southwest WA, Alcoa are strip mining in our drinking water catchments - Serpentine, North Dandalup and South Dandalup.
They are mining in reservoir protection zones where everyday people aren’t allowed to hike or camp due to water quality risks. They want to build a pipeline to take our drinking water straight out of Serpentine Dam.
Strip mining in drinking water catchments is a disaster - the risks are enormous and the consequences could be catastrophic.
Water Corporation, has warned that contamination of our drinking water is “certain” if Alcoa’s expansion continues. Why was this ignored and their advice excluded from Alcoa’s operating conditions?
These forests supply drinking water to Perth, Kalgoorlie, the Goldfields and towns all across southwest WA. We should all be very worried.
It’s not a matter of IF - it’s a matter of WHEN. And when disaster strikes, it will affect hundreds of thousands of people and cost millions, if not billions of dollars.
We are not anti-mining or anti-Alcoa, but our health and wellbeing are seriously at stake.
Many people don’t know what’s happening. Alcoa have already cleared 28,000 hectares of the world’s only jarrah forest - 14x the City of Perth. Their mining agreement is so old, it’s exempt from most of our environmental laws. Now is a critical time for change.
We’re urgently calling on the state government to do what’s right for Western Australians - ban all mining in our drinking water catchments.
Speak out, share this message, and hold our leaders accountable. The future of Western Australia depends on what we do today 🩵✊🌳
💻 Contact state & federal MPs and local gov councillors - they need to hear your concerns
☎️ Talk to family, friends, colleagues and neighbours - so everyone knows whats happening
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