acid spill - no enviro disaster etc but nasty, page-2

ACF's Dave Sweeney: "The time for mining a problematic and polluting mineral in a World Heritage area is over,"

Justin O'Brien, chief executive of the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (GAC: "Day by day, litre by litre, incident by incident, they're losing whatever trust traditional owners have in them," Mr O'Brien told AAP. He said Ranger 3 Deeps was off the table.

ERA in a statement said the material was contained on site and has had no environmental impact and no personnel were harmed.

Additionally, information has been released that the ground surrounding the leak is quite impermeable [i.e. any leaks don't leach into the surrounding soil like most people will be thinking and no doubt the ABC will suggest].

Going to be lots of spin on this, definitely from one side of the debate.