Alcoa of Australia Limited

Alcoa of Australia Limited, which operates under the trading name of Alcoa World Alumina Australia, which is 60% owned by Alcoa Inc. and 40% by Alumina Limited.

Brown coal burner
Alcoa of Australia own and operate the 150 megawatt Anglesea Power Station. The power station is located near Anglesea and, in 2009, was estimated to have emitted 1.317 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2e.) The power station is supplied with coal from the Anglesea mine, which is owned by Alcoa of Australia. The Anglesea mine produces approximately 1 million tonnes of coal a year which is supplied to the adjoining Anglesea power station.

Handout from carbon tax package
Alcoa of Australia received $14,901,959.75 of the $1 billion cash payments given out in 2011/12 to the operators of the most polluting coal-fired power stations. The cash was paid from the Energy Security Fund which was established as a part of the carbon tax legislation passed in 2011.

Personnel

 * Alan Cransberg, Managing Director

Membership of lobby groups

 * Business Council of Australia

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