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Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has shut one of two residue desulphurizer (RDS) units at its 540,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Mailiao due to a leak, and it may restart in about a week's time, a company spokesman said on Friday. Its other RDS unit is running at full cap...

A mining company has been ordered to pay $45,000 in penalties following a zinc and lead spill from one of its northwest Queensland pipelines in 2009. MMG Century Limited pleaded guilty to one charge of unlawfully causing material environmental harm in the Mount Isa Magistrates Court, the stat...