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BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam will cause greenhouse emissions to soar

Mining growth a greenhouse gas threat
– Adelaide Now 29 July 09

July 29, 2009

SOUTH Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions will skyrocket with the expansion of the Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine if the power comes from non-renewable sources.

The Australian Conservation Foundation says the State Government must make the expansion conditional on the use of renewable energy.

“This BHP mining plan is equivalent to putting more than one million inefficient polluting cars on to the roads and keeping them there for decades to come,” said ACF climate change program manager Tony Mohr.

A spokesman for Premier Mike Rann said the greenhouse gas emissions were “a key issue for consideration” and that the Government would ask BHP Billiton to demonstrate how it would comply with relevant legislation.

AdelaideNow… Mining growth a greenhouse gas threat –

July 29, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change - global warming, South Australia, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, climate change, climate change - global warming, nuclear, South Australia, uranium