Counted among the nation’s biggest polluters, South Australia’s Whyalla steelworks will replace coal-based production with a half-billion dollar electric arc furnace capable of slashing emissions by 90 per cent.
Owners Liberty Steel say the phase-out will also lift steelmaking capacity by half to 1.5 million tonnes annually, build on the 3500 jobs it already provides and place the industrial port city “at the heart of a global revolution.”
