Responsibility for rehabilitating and cleaning up the Liberty Bell Bay site could ultimately fall to the Tasmanian government, according to legal experts, after administrators failed to secure a buyer for the embattled manganese smelter.
Administrators announced on Thursday that they had been unable to secure a buyer for the northern Tasmanian smelter, triggering its immediate closure and leaving about 200 workers without jobs, while also raising questions about the future of the industrial site.
While the Tasmanian government has not…