EPA plans Truegain clean-up after government warns tanks full of toxic chemicals 'may fail at anytime'

Donna Page
February 16 2021 - 9:00am
ABANDONED: An EPA report says ageing tanks at the Truegain Rutherford industrial plant could "fail at anytime" and the condition of the underground storage tank is unknown. Picture: NSW Environment Protection Authority
ABANDONED: An EPA report says ageing tanks at the Truegain Rutherford industrial plant could "fail at anytime" and the condition of the underground storage tank is unknown. Picture: NSW Environment Protection Authority

After years of heavy fire about the continued pollution threat posed by the Truegain waste-oil refinery site in the NSW Hunter, the NSW government has finally signalled its intention to act.

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Donna Page

Donna Page

Investigative journalist at the Newcastle Herald

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