Australia's largest aluminium smelter in Portland, Victoria, is negotiating a massive government rescue package, joining a growing list of corporate bailouts that critics call 'the year of the taxpayer handout'.
Britain's industrial heartland faces devastating blow as soaring power prices threaten to shut down major aluminium plant, putting over 1,000 livelihoods in jeopardy and exposing UK's energy vulnerability.
Australia's largest aluminium smelter in Tomago faces an uncertain future as Rio Tinto considers closure, threatening over 1,000 jobs and sending shockwaves through the Hunter Valley economy.