Antinuclear

Uranium mining hype about aborigines

Christina Macpherson 3 Sept 09

As the commercial nuclear industry founders, uranium corporations hurry to expand their hype, while there’s still time. Time to pretend that their toxic stuff is really about beating climate change, and having cheap energy, (and not about nuclear weapons).

In Australia, the hype is all about making money for investors, about helping the environment (!!), and now, about helping aborigines.

In this context, ERA paid for an Age journalist to be flown to Kakadu, and to report on what lovely conditions are there now, for aborigines to work in the uranium mine.

To his credit, the journalsit just slipped in a paragraph about what the local aborigines really think about uranium mining.

Putting in place resources for indigenous employment
The Age BEN SCHNEIDERS, KAKADU 3 Sept 09
“………But uranium mining remains highly controversial, albeit less so than a decade ago, and is strongly opposed by the local Mirrar people. ERA’s massive Jabiluka uranium deposit is near Ranger and the Mirrar declare they do not want it mined due to the ”decline of traditional culture” and the destruction of country it would entail. Both sites are surrounded by the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park……”

September 3, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Christina reviews, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, radioactive, uranium