Environment
SA’s cleaner pulp mill
Sue Neales Mercury
A REVOLUTIONARY $1.5 billion pulp mill about to be approved in South Australia will use just one-tenth of the water proposed by the $1.7 billion Gunns mill on the Tamar River. The Protavia pulp mill at Penola, in SA’s south-east near Mt Gambier, includes a “closed-loop” recycling system, eliminating the need for polluting effluent to leave the rural site.