BlueScope Steel fined $15k after fish die in cyanide water

By Glen Humphries
Updated January 11 2017 - 2:37pm, first published 12:00pm
Fish live in several waterways at BlueScope, including one near the sinter plant (above). A leak into a different waterway killed a number of fish and saw the steelmaker fined $15,000. Picture: Sylvia Liber
Fish live in several waterways at BlueScope, including one near the sinter plant (above). A leak into a different waterway killed a number of fish and saw the steelmaker fined $15,000. Picture: Sylvia Liber

BlueScope Steel has been fined thousands of dollars after water containing cyanide at triple the legal levels found its way into a drain leading to the Port Kembla Inner Harbour.

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