Investigation

NSW government to bulldoze Maitland's Truegain waste oil refinery and remediate heavily contaminated site

Donna Page
Updated June 10 2022 - 11:51pm, first published 5:30am
TOXIC: A Fire and Rescue NSW Hazmat crew inspecting Truegain's Rutherford site in March 2017. Picture: Perry Duffin
TOXIC: A Fire and Rescue NSW Hazmat crew inspecting Truegain's Rutherford site in March 2017. Picture: Perry Duffin

FOR more than 20 years it was responsible for the "Rutherford stink" exposing Maitland residents to potentially dangerous levels of air pollution.

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Donna Page

Donna Page

Investigative journalist at the Newcastle Herald

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